Founders Double Trouble IPA

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

Replaces Hopslam as my favorite DIPA. Less sweet, and alcohol is better hidden than in Hopslam. Aroma and taste lean to herbal rather than citrus. Lingering bitter after taste.

my first 5. Got this beer at evergreen liquors in lou., KY. pours a true pale (actually almost more towards a golden) with a tight white head. aroma is floral, citrusy, and slightly malty. The citrus and floral characteristics come forward in the taste in the beginning, but the balance is pretty delicate for a IIPA with this much "hoppiness." The malt holds its own until the dry hop finish takes charge. Almost no detectable burn going down. Is this beer really 9.4%?? outstanding

this is simply one of the most gorgeous IPA’s ever made! The aroma is beautiful. I literally smelled it for five minutes before I even drank it. All I could say was "wow"!

If you have not tasted it, you must, it is like drinking fresh squeezed grapefruit juice the morning after a three-way with Kate Winslet and Kate Beckinsale.

Slightly hazy yellow pour with an orange tint. Thin fluffy white head. Delicious hoppy aroma with lots tropical fruit and citrus. Sweet initially with intense hop flavor. Fruit and citrus notes. Intense bitter pine finish. End is a bit harsh, but this is almost exactly how I like my IPAs.

Style and Glass: DIPA, Tulip; snifter ABV, Volume & Calories: 9.4% in 12 fl oz. estimated at200 C Purchased at: Canal’s Lawrenceville, NJ for $2.75 Aroma: A beautiful, hoppy explosion. Pine, citrus, resin, salt, seawater, and burn of alcohol is very present. Visuals: design is fun, inviting, and apropos, body is a winter sunset, deep reddish orange with a bright white head, very clear, head is small but withstands the tasting, lace is missing. Taste: smooth, sweet and burning, syrupy and spicy with savory notes, hops are forefront, bitter and biting. Palate: smooth throughout. Alcohol inhale on first taste, followed quickly by sweetness, then intense bitterness, then a long dulling battering of the mouth. Delicious. Overall: An amazing and delicious brew. A bit expensive, but always worth it. . originally posted at: <a href="http://beercritic.wordpress.com/"&

Double IPA is absolutely my favorite style and this beer delivers with a full hop assault. Grapefruit and pine with a great mouthfeel and slightly sweet malt finish to provide balance. Delicious!

Sharp citrusy aroma,so sharp its almost like someone squirts a grapefruit around your nose,its really an incredible quality,so distinctly citrusy you cant believe this comes from hops,there is a whisper of caramel malt at first sniff,but that got quickly beaten down by those nostril buckeling waves of juicy ,tart acidic citrus,why can’t they come up with a perfume that smells like this. I’m so blessed to be a card carrying hophead, with this glass of brew in my hand. And now the taste, ,an amazing lightness to it, can’t remember ever tasting such a full body of hops,in a less then then full body beer. Balance,we don’t need no stinking balance, nothing but savory hop flavor and tongue twisting hop bitterness smothering the taste buds,that flavor and bitterness lingers as a heavenly coating on the palate. Alcohol is mildly evident but uninteresting in lieu of the Garden of Eden hopping you experience. The only malting I detected was a slight sweet grain taste right after the swallow. All in all,a masterpiece of an Imperial IPA,if you consider an IPA a very hop emphasized pale ale,and therfore an Imperial IPA should be an uber hop emphasized ale, balance be damned, cast the balance advocates to the pale ales and English IPA’s. I just can’t see how this could be improved. There is no way this spectacular hop fireworks display can hold strong in the bottles as it ages , but for this brief period in these lousy struggling times ,we have some manna from heaven to sustain us