Big Dogs Dirty Dog IPA

Brewed by Big Dogs Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Las Vegas, Nevada USA

Date: December 15, 2004
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: clear amber, thin white head
Body: creamy body
Flavor: lots of hop and grapefruit flavor, sweet citrus
Overall: ipa as it was meant to be

Date: July 01, 2005
Score: ii
Words: sample
Appearance: big sweet aroma of grapefruit sprinkled with sugar
Aroma: sweet malt and tempered hop flavor, does not live up to the aroma
Overall: needs another review before being downgraded

Date: July 01, 2005
Mode: draft
too cold? bigger hops and bigger malt flavor, but not picking up the promise of the aroma or the wonder of the beer I had six months ago (after too many other stops that day, I confess), goes great with twice baked cajun wings

Date: January 03, 2006
Source: brewpub
Appearance: opaque rusty orange, frothy white head, nice lace
Aroma: huge sweet citrus aroma like sugar sprinkled on grapefruit
Flavor: sweet pine flavor with nice bitterness, the hop flavor saturates after a while until you need to scrape them off your tongue
Overall: back to greatness

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.9/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

2008-09-08, draught at the brewpub in Rancho Drive, 8-4-8-5-16=41
Light amber color. The aroma is quite fruity and resiny. Good body, caramel flavor, sweet, with strong hopping, again giving a strong earthy character (manure...; it seems to be the brewer’s signature) and fruitness (grapefruit...). Very good.

2007-10-02, draught at Big Dog’s Cafe and Casino in W Sahara Ave., Las Vegas, 8-4-8-5-17=42
Brewed exclusively with Summit hop.
Orange copper color. Very nice hoppy aroma, fruity first, with pine needles too. Medium body strength, malt flavor with a lot of sweet toffee from the hops; very strong hopping, resiny and fruity (bitter oranges). Very good.

2006-03-27, draught at the brewpub in N Rancho Dr., Las Vegas, 9-4-9-5-18=45
Light amber color. Very nice fruity aroma (grapefruit, apricots…), pine needles. Full malty body, sweet, with a respectable amount of resins, fruitness, bitterness. Superb. My best draught beer in Las Vegas.

on tap-pours an off white head that laces and yellow/gold color. Aroma is citrus hops. Taste is bitter citrus hops-lemon/pine, secondary light malt-some caramel sweetness. OK carbonation.

Sampled from a growler courtesy of kp: Hazy dark bronze pour has a well-lacing frothy white head. Fresh green citric hoppy aroma has some fruity sweet candy notes and earthiness. Starts sweet and candy-like with a sugary citrus hoppy presence. Not sure if I like the artificial candy flavor that these hops are causing here.

Pours copper wth a white head. Smells of citrus and earthy. Tastes earthy with a nice compliment of resiny hops on the finish.

Cloudy orange, very sharp and fresh hop flavor, like chewing on a hop pellet... a little gritty too. Musty, all hops and no balance... call this one a hop stew, but at least it’s not overdone.

Growler @ KP’s cellar. Poured a hazy amber with a medium off-white head. Aroma of oranges, earthiness, and sweet caramel. Sweet malt flavor, toffee, some citrus. A bitter-sweet finish.

Hazy orange and watery-headed. Super-tart citric bite, but there’s a horrific mold-like after taste.