 jredmond (1015), New Jersey, USA
Oct 11, 2009 Cask @ Chelsea’s Brewing Co. in NYC this past weekend. Pours a hazy orange body woth small white head. Great citrus hop aroma. Good hop flavor.
SuIIy (1405), Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA
Oct 11, 2009 Batch 004 BBD 07/07/09. Bottle. Pours a clear light orange color with a very small, foamy head with big bubbles that receedes quickly. Nose is light with some stingy harvesty hop notes and some light biscuit notes. Palate is a little thin with a crispness to it. Flavor is the harvesty grainy hop notes with a light malt backbone of mostly biscuity qualities.
Pyobon (266), Sydney, Australia
Oct 10, 2009 Bottle. Clear golden, almost orange, with thin head. Intense hop aroma that is complex and very appealing with hints of stone fruit. Full body with medium carbonation. Intense flavours that commands your full attention. It starts with a complex full fruity mix and metamorphoses into a huge hoppy bitter finish with a hardcore alcohol undrtone with the bitter finish lasting and lasting. An exceptional beer but not one for everyday - really a showpiece of what is possible - a bit extreme really.
Pwn3d (1036), Manhattan, New York, USA
Oct 9, 2009 On cask at the Chelsea brewery cask ale festival. Hoppy and packing som heat. Ok, not really balanced.
funkleshite (8), California, USA
does not count  Oct 8, 2009 Pours orange with a small dissipating white head. Guava, pink grapefruit, applejuice, and honey. really too sweet. white lacing like a spider’s web. The floral hops are hidden below the fruit. Not my cup o’ tea.
wcampbell (567), Central, South Carolina, USA
Oct 7, 2009 Not impressed with the Scottish brewers overall. This was way too whimpy, I can’t believe it is 9%. Mild grapefruit hop flavor balanced by some toffee and grainy malts. Not up to American hop standards though. The most boring double IPA I have had so far.
sm89walt (431), Norwich, Norfolk, England
Oct 5, 2009 33cl bottle. Clear, effervescent orange with a fine but frothy, lasting white head, which leaves a greasy lacing. Grapefruit, orange, lemon sherbet, and herbs and spices on the nose. A barrage of resiny, grapefruity hops with orange peel, spice and floral flavours. The bitterness is relentless, almost going as far as reaching back to your tonsils. Endless, almost tongue-numbing bitter finish, medium body, medium carbonation with a crisp yet clinging mouthfeel. Not quite enough maltiness to balance. 156, 23/09/10.
JoeinUccle (902), Brussels, Belgium
Oct 4, 2009 Bottle pours golden amber, a bit viscous, with some sparse white bubbles once the initial head fades. Incredibly fruity hop nose, with peaches, pineapple and other tropical fruit, grapefruit, and so on. Initial syrupy sweetness rolls into a firm, ass-whooping bitterness. Tongue-coatingly, resinously bitter aftertaste. Extreme in all the places you’d expect, I guess. A bit more carbonation would help scrub that gunk off my tongue. Fun to smell and taste, though.
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