Foothills Seeing Double IPA

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

Poured at 2009 GABF, Saturday session. Pours an attractive gold-orange, with a small cream colored head. Aroma is all citrus and sweeter fruits (mainly orange, pinneaple). Body is medium-light with medium attenuation, very creamy-smooth. Flavors come out with a hop tang to them, rounding appropriately with a faint malt sweetness. Freshness of the hops is so important to this beer.

From a growler. Copper in color with a thin wispy head. Aroma of candy sugars and spruce trees. More of a balanced DIPA. Sweet caramel malts and some piney and citrus hops. Slick syrupy feeling. Very drinkable. Another fine beer from Foothills.

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.

tap - asheville bier garden

hazy orange color with a thick white head. Big floral citrus aroma. Smooth, round full mouth feel with excellent carbonation. Huge hop flavor, leaning towards astringent bitterness, but also good amounts of fresh hop juciness. Flavors were floral with strong resiny sap notes. Long (long) lasting bitterness. Best NC beer I’ve had.

Sampled from a 5 gallon keg (courtesy of boboski) at kp’s on 7/2/06: Pours a clear orange copper with a nicely-lacing white head. Big, fresh piny hoppy aroma has a nice, clean balanced caramel maltiness. Starts with a good sweet sticky caramel malty palate and lots of fresh piny hoppy flavor. Nicely-balanced and fresh with plenty of green hops and mild citrus with a lightly warming finish. A nice double IPA.

Cloudy orange brown, with a decent sized beige head. Big citrus and black pepper aroma. Very smooth, with a nice piney flavor up front and a viscous, malty finish. Draft at Barley’s, Asheville.

Growler, sampled at the 1st Annual Shenandoah Beer Throwdown, courtesy of TURDFERGUSON. Thanks, Sam! Nice appearance- mostly clear fruity deep prangey amber with a nice tacky tight white head. Aroma is amarillo hops- porangey citrus with some cat piss and a moderate sweet malt backbone. Lots of bitter hops in the flavor alogn with more citrus and especially grapefruit and some pine needle - and sap- sticky tacky and bitter finish with more cattiness. Nice DIPA.

Huge thanks to Jason "Boboski" for bringing the keg and tap handle to match. Clear amber color with a medium off-white head. Big grapefruit aroma and flavor. Sweet malt. Hop bitterness that keeps growing. the finish is lightly sweet. Very warming and tastey. I had three glasses for the road before I left. I also had a DD so not a problem.