Big Boss Double IPA

Brewed by Big Boss Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Raleigh, North Carolina USA

"Deuces Wild" per the program at Hickory Hops 2007. Cloudy orangey amber color with a head of tan. Thick lacing. Aromas leap from the glass with piney hops soaked in grapefuit juice. Smells sweet. Flavors have some of the aromatic sweetness, but with an added rush of bitter. Heady malt base holds up grapefuit, pineapple, and apricot. CItrusy joy with a touch of tropical. Smooth body, leans heavily towards bitter the more you drink it. This is what I’ve been looking for in a NC DIPA!

On tap and the speakeasy in Carrboro. pours out a nice deep amber color with a medium beige head. Aroma is very hoppy and full of grapefruit. Flavor was ver intense at first but soon seemed to disapate. im sure that was from my mouth getting used to the big hops in this beer. Over all a great brew. i certainly enjoyed this.

Draft at the Federal in downtown Durham, NC. Amber orange color with a thin white head. Wonderful citrusy hope explosion in my nostrils promises joy. What starts as a somewhat typical grapefruity DIPA is magically transformed when the malt flavor hits turning it into a pineapple delight that comes back and hits you with a bitter kick at the finish. The carbonation is somewhat soft but it works well with this beer. A magnificent success for this newly renamed brewery.

Sampled at the 2007 Hickory Hops. Nice stuff, a nice mix of sweet and bitter, on a smooth, almost creamy palate. thoroughly enjoyable, and the server was really cute too. Can I use that as criteria to bump up the "appearance" score?

(from a while ago....) Draught, at Woody’s in Downtown Raleigh. Hazy, amber-copper colored, off-white medium head, nice lacing. Aroma is very hoppy, pine and grapefruit, with a bit of caramel thrown in. Flavor is similar, sticky mouthfeel, sweet and hoppy. Alcohol and hops in the aftertaste.

Growler from brewery. Godd aroma Sweet, Citrusy, Orange, lemon-lime, Grapefruit. Got some apricot peach when cold. Turned grapefruity at it’s warmest. Hazed brownish orange color, little to no head, minor lace. Bitter sweet flavor, Like aroma, but lemon & grapefruit stand out the most. Minor toasted malts, but are buried by the hops. Medium body, Smooth viscous mouthfeel, bitter finish. Good IIPA. Lost what I liked in the aroma as it warmed.

Growler: Poured a hazy amber color with a small off-white head. Grapefruity hops start out the aroma with sweet malt underneath then some alcohol. Light earthy hops were detected after the beer warmed. The flavor was a mix of hops and malt with a sweet finish. The finish was also moderately bitter.

Sampled from a growler on 3/14/07: Pours a transparent coper orange with a spotty-lacing, small frothy off-white head. Aroma of fresh, earthy, grapefruity hops with some sweet caramel malt. Body starts fresh, sweet and caramely malty with a lot of grapefruity bittering hops and a warming finish. A decent double IPA.