Foothills Seeing Double IPA

Brewed by Foothills Brewing
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Winston-Salem, North Carolina USA

What a treat for my 300th! On draft at the brewpub. A truly great brew from a small local brewery. Pours a translucent tangerine orange with some cloudiness and sustainable light tan ring of head. Aroma reminded me of a Hopslam. Flavor of earthy pine with some notes of nugget and honey. Medium body with fair carbonation made for dangerously easy drinking. Lingering hop bitterness.

draught. Pours murky amber with a small tannish head. The aroma is an onslaught of pine scent and bittersweet caramel. This is brew is heavy on the palate with subtly noticeable alcohol, tons of piny hops, and sticky caramel. This all comes together with decent balance and a bracing deluge of bitterness. It took me quite a while to finish this glass.
[Oct. 14, ’06]
Ah, yes. Seeing Double. You are still viscous as oil. You still have the insane level of thick malts and that huge, very deep, defined citrus bite. You are cool.
[Feb 18, 2008]
From a 5 hour old growler, shared with friends: Pours a thick orange with a very tall white head. Lacing is dense and oily. I’d been missing Seeing Double as I suspect the last few times I sampled it, I had it from quite an old keg. Getting this stuff straight from the source is rewarding with a powerful hop bouquet. Deep grapefruit, orange, pineapple are immediately taken in while more herbal scents are in the background. The mouthfeel is appropriately sticky, and the malts do well to balance things out. A lot of rich, juicy citrus flavors are on this one. This is a heavier, juicier IIPA but still with massive hop power.

Growler courtesy of onenote81. Pours a dark amber color with reddish highlights and a one finger light tan head. Good retention and lacing. Aroma is sweet and floral with notes of citrus, pine, caramel, grapefruit, some hints of honey and spice. Flavor is sweet and floral with notes of citrus, grapefruit, caramel, honey, pine, floral hops. Generally medium body with a piny, floral hop finish.

On Tap at Tyler’s of Carrboro. Earthy, grapfruitty hops dominate the nose. Appearence is rather disappointing: cloudy orange-amber with no head, this beer looks flat. Citrusy hops, predominantly grapefruit dominate the flavor that leave your tongue loving and hating its job at the same time. A very nice double ipa (and its from NC!). I hope Foothills starts bottling soon.

From a clear glass growler with the Foothills logo on front and serving and growler care instructions on the back. Made a good appearance, poured an murky, fresh apple cider amber hued copper with a foamy pale tan head that settled into a thin, bubbly, skim-like lacing, good carbonation. Had a big hop nose, piney and citric with a little apple earthiness at the edges. A textured, smooth medium bodied mouth feel, very good D/IPA drinkability. Apple fruity and smoothly citric bitter at first, then a piney earthiness comes through, followed by a balancing crisp sweet maltiness, the hops and malts doing a good job of masking the alcoholic warmth and a sweet malty and earthy finish. For a Double IPA, there is a good balance between the hops and malts, definitely more a east coast D/IPA than west coast, tasty and dangerously quaffable.

On tap @ Barley’s taproom in Asheville. Poured a clear deep orange color with a tight white head. Sharp, strong pineapple and grapefruit hop aromas assault the nose. Viscous sticky palate. Strong deep pineapple taste dominate with the finish marked by a rich sweetness. A unique DIPA, in that I haven’t had one with quite the flavor this one has.

RBSG 2006, Grand Tasting. Clear copper with a white head. Tropical fruits and pine in the nose, very nice. Flavor has notes of caramel, more tropical fruit character and peppery/piney hops. Pleasant sweetness with ample bitterness and an alcohol zing at the end. Medium bodied, perhaps a bit thin for the style with moderate carbonation. Overall good stuff.

Thanks to John for bringing in a growler! Great hop aroma, gassy, spicy. Pours golden amber. Sweet upfront, then great hop flavor kicks in. Great bitterness, almost oily on palate.