Dark Horse Double Crooked Tree IPA

Brewed by Dark Horse Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Marshall, Michigan USA

The color was a peach with red hues. The head was creamy, foamy, light beige, and apricot. The aroma was sweet, dry, and alcohol. The flavor was alcohol, bitter, and a light sourness. The palate was medium bodied and burned slightly. The finish was a little harsh and dry.

12 oz bottle purchased at Bello Vino in Ann Arbor. The pour caused big flakes of sediment to come out causing the beer to be a cloudy fuzzy amber-ish orange with nice tan head. With the glass more than a foot from my nose I can still easily smell the aroma. There is a very nice nose of pine hops and sweet sticky sludgy caramelized malts. After it had warmed to near room temperature I could start to smell the alcohol. The taste has big pine hop flavor that blends into pine and grapefruit hop bitterness creating an enjoyable transition. About midway sweet caramelized malts and hints of pale malts surface to mix with the citrus hops to create a somewhat sweet tangelo juice note. Into the finish the hop bitterness becomes rather pronounced. Very delicious IIPA and even my wife enjoyed the taste. As the beer moved closer to room temperature I could start to taste alcohol notes that bordered on interfering with the experience. The beer seems pretty smooth and not so much the in your face palate crushing experience as the Founder’s Devil Dancer. But close.

Bottle. A dark amber beer with a off-white head. The aroma is of caramel malt, dark fruits, pine and hops, so is the taste, but light alcoholic. Medium to full body with a sweet dry light alcoholic finish. The alcohol is warming and well hidden away behind the malt. More please!!!

Bottle. Hazy orange red coloured with a small off white head. Sweet aroma of caramel, dried fruits, hops and pine needles. Sweet flavour of hops, dried fruits and pine needles. Dry hoppy finish.

Bottled. Reddish amber coloured. Uncleaer. Light beige head. Alcohol, sweetness, fruits, herbs and light pine in the aroma. Flavour is sweet and caramelly. Has light liqourice, herb and alcohol notes. Quite full bodied. Has a warming bitter end. Nice.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of sk8viking. Pours a very hazy amber - almost murky - with floating impurities and a beige head. Fat aroma of hops and caramel. Very full in body with a very smooth mouthfeel. Lots of sweet caramel - almost Barleywineish - almost drowning the 98 IBUs. The finish is rich and full of warming alcohol. 270607

12 oz bottle via trade with someone whom I cannot recall. Bartzilla birthday bash beer 2. Aroma is super sweet with a subdued hop nose. The pour is orange with a thin white ring on top. The taste is sweet and hoppy and reminescent of a BW. Mouth feel is sticky and hoppy and damn strange but great.

Bottled. Reddish brown coloured. Dark fruits and caramel in the aroma with notes of hops. Sweet juicy toffee and hop flavour. Quite full bodied. The alcohol is very well hidden.