Foothills Seeing Double IPA

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

On tap at The Bier Garden, Asheville. Nice sugary-sweet and hoppy aroma to this one, with apricots and resin, and also a bit of bitter metallic funk. Deep amber-orange with some haze, topped with an off-white lacing creamy head. Heavy body with mdium smooth carbonation, quite a mouthful, with a light alcohol warming. Starts with an initial burst of brown sugar and big grapefruity hops. After this, the malty sweetness takes over and would be cloying but for the big bitter hop finish that segways into a medium bittersweet after. A bit of alcohol, too. Decent DIPA, but a bit hevy handed in the finish.

Growler at RBSG 2006. Rusty amber. Nose is hoppy, fruity and sweet. Laden with caramel. Taste is chewy, sweet malts, caramel, hops, citrus notes and a touch of pine. Body is thick and chewy but creamy. Finishes with more citrus and caramel. Nice!

Draft at WBF Raleigh on 5/2/09. Just an update as I didn’t realize I had rated this already! My friend and I both got samples of this and we both picked up some "oddities" at the fest. We both got mint/herbal notes, tropical fruit and even a hint of coconut on top of our hops, caramel, and pine. We thought it odd but thought it tasty as well and different which is definitely what I like.

RBSG 2006 - DC Grand Tasting Lineup Bronze color, no head or lacing. Nose of bright grapefruit and sweet nutty grapes. The flavor is nice and balanced. Catty bitterness and sweet maltose. The finish is nice and traditional with light lingering malt but a nice hop essence.

Bottle. Blind tasting. A amber beer with a off-white head. The aroma and taste is of malt and hops, peach, mellon notes, dry. Medium to full body with a bitter dry, hoppy finish.

(Handbottle 65 cl) Courtesy of BrianK. Clear, amber golden with a creamy, off-white head leaving some lacework. Fat, sweetish aroma of malt and peachy hops. Quite full-bodied, very sweet caramel and a fairly bitter finish. A bit too much on the sweet side. 190408

In short: Plenty of caramelized malts, nice resinous fruity hops but unfortunately alcohol too apparent. Very good nonetheless.
How: From a growler, post-Dark-Lord-Day 2008 party. Unknown generous soul.
The look: Dark orange body topped by a small off-white head
In long: Nose is fruity hops with a strong citrus/apricots aroma. A well malted body, lots of caramelized malts in this one. Hops profile is resinous, somewhat citrusy, some coniferous tree juice. I suspect a lot of Centennial hops in there and maybe some Cascade because its hop profile is somewhat reminiscent of my beloved Corne Du Diable. The beer falls apart in the finish with too much alcohol and sweetness. Alcohol that is apparent all the way through comes to bite you in the end. A good IIPA that could have been great. Definitely requires resample as I was pretty inebriated when I had it and I was already seeing double, I though I was drinking a Quadruple IPA.

Cask at the Durham World Beer Festival. Golden brown with a small off white head. Grapefruit and pine nose, some caramel malt notes. Orange citrus flavor, sweet with a big bitter bite. Good.

Pours a fairly dark amber with a small off-white head and very light lacing. Citrus hop aroma. Great balance of malts and hops makes this a very drinkable double IPA, but I was expecting a hoppier beer. Definitely a brew worth trying.