Founders Double Trouble IPA

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Bottle. Medium high fluffy but lasting white head leaving nice long lacings. Hazy light orange body. Oranges lemon grapefruit nuts hops aroma. Pretty acidic grapefruit pine flavor with a sharp hoppyness and a good deal of alcohol. Low carboantion. Long bitter aftertaste.

Canals purchase. WOW what a gem. Grassy aroma, a hop explosion of the nose. A very bitter sweet blend. Citric basically everything I like in an IPA.

Poured from the 12oz. bottle into a pint glass. The color is a hazy yellowish orange with a finger or two of foamy white head and some white lacing. Some light carbonation. The smell is a bit hoppy, with some citrus flavor at first. A small hint of banana and vanilla as well, which is very surprising. The taste is a only a light hoppy taste at first with a wisp of bitterness that stays in your pallet. The bitterness warms the tongue just a bit. Some yeast in the back end just behind the bitterness along with some some slight sugar flavor. This beer does not jump right up in punch you in the mouth it seems to slide into your taste buds before pronouncing it’s bitterness. It goes down easy and it pretty crisp.

12oz bottle from Martha’s Vineyard. Love the label! Good colour and head on this one. The aroma is full hop and malty in balance. So too is the palate. This is a very well structured beer with all the hallmarks of excellent craft...and yet (to nitpick) it somehow falls slightly short of perfection. Maybe it’s the fact I had this in the same session as a Bells Hopslam. That’s a hard beer to stand out from. Regardless, this is a great IIPA and one I’d be happy to consume regularly if it were available.

Pours a three finger white head that fades slowly leaving a good lace. Cloudy amber color. Light-medium carbonation and medium bodied. Piney nose. Flavor is sweet, grapefruit and pine.

Since I moved to the midwest, Founder’s and Bell’s have been competing for my vote as "the" premium accessible beer in my world. This brew may have tipped the scales in favor of Founder’s. The first word that comes to mind is "explosive". It is bottled violence. Poured a wild nuclear orange, very cloudy and with almost zero head. Brew is VERY hoppy and, as with most Founder’s, very well-balanced. I’d have to drink them side by side to be sure, but off-hand I think this one gets the nod over Bell’s Hopslam by a nose.

Flaske: God humleduft på en orange klar øl. Smagen er faktisk ikke så fantastisk. Meget klar citrus humle men ikke så overvældende som forventet. Mangler lige det sidste. Måske er det turen over atlanten.

Pours a hazy golden color and a not particularly impressive white head. Nose is rather loaded with the flowery hops; it is a heavy nose with more than one flavor thrown into the mix. The beer itself is mostly bitter, with a load of hops, but not too many. It didn’t really go too far.And with DIPAs that is very often a good thing. Many other flavors mixed in along with some sweet notes (citric and caramely). Body is light enough to drink, but heavy enough to feel in your mouth.