forsides (67), union, New Jersey, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Aug 30, 2009 orange amber colored with a small head. nose is light, sweet, some toffee notes. taste is bigger with decent hop bitterness, and piney, resiny, slightly fruity aftertaste. light mouth feel.
 hughie (3053), Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Aug 29, 2009 Bottle in Sainsburys Festival. Batch No. 228. Best before 25/12/10. Bright copper orange. Small white head. Pine and orange hop aroma. Grapefruit taste with some sweetness and a sharp bitter finish. Extremely delicious, or as the youth say nowadays, ’It’s da bum.’
Garrat (1132), Suffolk, England
| 2.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 3/5 | 4/10 | 2/5 | 6/20 |
Aug 28, 2009 Bottle new.Amber with a med head,aroma is wonderful of scots pine cedar cone sap at christmas leather and peach,mmmm.Taste is strong hop cedar pine needles and alcohol at the back,dry cloying fin.It excites my senses but as a beer it doesn’t work for me.
evergreen0199 (259), London, Greater London, England
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Aug 25, 2009 Bottle. Orange coloured pour with small head. Great hoppy aroma. Tastes hoppy, citrus, bitter/sweet, grapefruit. Quite complex for a UK DIPA. This beer is trying incredibly hard to emulate an American DIPA. I prefer American DIPA’s but now this is available in my local supermarket at a decent price, it’ll do just fine for now.
EFC1878 (292), Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
| 2.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 4/10 | 2/5 | 10/20 |
Aug 25, 2009 Updated: Sep 20, 2009Bottle, best before 15 Jul 2010, batch 195. Orange/gold with minimal whte head. Fruity, resiinous aroma. The taste is excessively bitter and cloying. Not particularly enjoyable.
bleeng (597), Spring near Beersel, Texas, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Aug 22, 2009 Bottle-old version. Bright gold, no head, hazy. Nose is hoppy and a bit spicy. Taste is slightly sweet, with this bottle maybe a bit old as the hops are bit stale. Very dry on the end with a small alcoholic kick-it’s pretty well hidden for a 9% beer. A decent beer but not life changing.
Allen (1339), Switzerland
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Aug 22, 2009 Bottled 33cl. Hoppy aroma with some malt showing up. Sweet taste. Reminiscent of Great Divide Hercules Double IPA. Boring. Decent.
BigBen2120 (688), Derry, New Hampshire, USA
| 4.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 10/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Aug 17, 2009 550ml brown bottle purchased at The Liquor Shoppe in Tygsboro, MA. Pours a bit hazy golden amber body with a half inch of off-white head that dissipates rather quickly. Grapefruit and toffee equally share the aroma, hinting at a good malt backbone for this DIPA. Orange, lemon, grapefruit hit the palate first, with toffee and chocolate malts shortly thereafter to help balance and bring some complexity to the show. Full-bodied with moderate carbonation. This is a very easy drinking DIPA and is disappearing much faster than I’d like. This beer is phenomenal - bold but balanced, complex yet approachable. I’m impressed.
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