Foothills Seeing Double IPA

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

Draught. Pours a cloudy reddish honey color with small white head. Swirling it in the glass leaves well-defined legs as if it were wine. The aroma is sticky with pine hops, some bread, and some cherry. The flavor is berries, raisin bread, and lots of spicy and citrusy hops. I also detect a bit of sweet orange peel and a little bit of caramel. The finish is cherries and pine, and leaves a soft bitterness in the aftertaste. I like this one a lot.

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.

Draft at FB. Hazy amber pour with a well retained off whit head, substantial lacing. Grapefruity hops shine in the aroma along with pine needles, fresh caramel malt, mulberry, dried pungent flowers and fresh berry Juicy Juice. Delectable nose that is at once gripping and accessible. Sweet taste is never cloying, but rich, filled with more grapefruit that never becomes overwhemingly sour as the real thing sometimes can. Also noted are more pine and hefty and complimentary malts. This just tastes so fresh, so balanced. Orange pulp and sweet berries are introduced once again near the finale. Finish is medium dry with moderate astringency. Palate is medium in body and full throttle on mouth warming complexity. A very well done double IPA from a very talented brewer. I have been fortunate to sample this on draft and from a growler, both were magnificent. Fresh vibrant fruit taste is the key component to this one’s excellent quaffability, it couldn’t really taste much more invigorating or be too much more agreeable.

Growler from Unclejedi at the BA tasting. Pours amber orange with an off white head. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Nice citrus and piney hop aroma. Flavor of caramel and toffee with some faint smoke esters, countered by a grapefruity bitterness.

Sampled at Summertime Brews Festival. Pour: soft amber/orange, lovely. Head: thin, light beige. Aroma: hoppy, floral hops, apricot, citrusy, very hoppy. Flavor: very very hoppy, alcohol, citrus, apricot, alcohol. Palate: smooth. Finish: warm and hoppy.

#300. Shared with Dragonstout, like most of the milestones. Tap at Foothills. Pours a neon reddish color with a frothy white head. Heavy hints of candied sugars, simcoe hops, and citrus fruits. Finished with a good body and stuck to the palate well. I need a growler of this!

Draft, pint glass...very tasty double IPA, citrusy but not very bitter, nice color with not much head, silky and warm, it will do more than make you see double...it will numb your tongue too.

Thanks kiefdog for sharing the growler. Very enjoyable IIPA. Pours a transparent amber with a white head. Nose is lots of caramel malt with a piney curtain over the peach and citrus notes. Flavor is very piney with big malt backbone. Overall a ton of malt and a balanced pine and citrus attack. Very enjoyable.