 BlackForestCO (629), Fort Collins and Black Forest, Colorado, USA
Jun 15, 2008
Bottle shared by Crosling. Poured a deep, clear golden color with a moderate off-white head that left nice lacing. Raw leafy, resiny hop aroma. Flavor is all hops. Moderately smooth entry leads into a leafy, resiny hop hit that tastes like licking hop flowers. Smooth with a nice bitter bite, quite oily. It is as advertised, a hop forward, SD style IIPA. Not very complex, but tastes great for what it is.
travita (808), Lewisville, Texas, USA
Dec 4, 2008 Bottle thanks to BMan1113VR. Smell is hops, grass, malts, and caramel. Looks is golden copperish with a decent white head. Taste is malts, caramel, hops, alcohol, and flowers.
bu11zeye (3887), Frisco, Texas, USA
Oct 28, 2008 (Bottle, courtesy of BMan1113VR) Pours a clear orange body with a small white head. Aroma of toasted bread, orange, floral, light cocoa, some pine, and noticeable alcohol burn. Flavor of caramel and toasted malts, hops (orange, resiny, floral), chocolate, and alcohol with a bitter finish.
Swalden28 (712), McKinney, Texas, USA
Oct 26, 2008 Bottle thanks to BMan1113VR. Pours a Hazy amber with nice white head. Aroma is very hoppy and malty, nice. Flavor is sweet with lots of hoppy flavor and bitterness and alcohol spice. Med. body with med-high carbonation. Good stuff.
BMan1113VR (1156), Los Angeles (and Dallas), Texas, USA
Oct 19, 2008 Bottle thanks to zathrus13. Shared with the Dallas crew at bu11zeye’s place. Beer has more attitude than hops...way more...to bad thats not always a good thing. Pours with a largish white head (would hope so given the name), with a clear ambere body. Great lacing and decent retention. Aroma of floral and spicey hops with a very sweet note eand a bit of booziness. Taste is fruity with darkish malts, boozy with a very bland and unbalanced citrus hop profile. Syrupy mouthfeel. Seems like the brewer just threw everything randomly into the pot.
noncaloric (197), Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Oct 18, 2008 Trade from northernbrews. Thanks Jeff! And whoa, aroma hits on popping the cap, no pour required, lots of coniferous hops balanced by worty vanilla malts. Pours a hazy red-gold, medium creamy, off-white head, some lacing even though my snifter isn’t an easy glass to lace. Flavor is coniferous hops, and worty carmelized malts, both intense, but in balance; finish is amazingly bittersweet; alcohol is strong, but harmonzed with the hops, the warmth comes out gingery. Palate is thick, caramelly, warming, not much carbonation.
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