Great Divide Hercules Double IPA

Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Denver, Colorado USA

Dark clear amber pour with a light tan head. Thr hop aroma hits you right as you open the bottle. Hop flavor, malt, slight sweetness. Little spicy at the end. Alcohol is well hidden. The beer leaves a real tasty malt flavor-nioce, creamy, hoppy. Nice lacing on the glass. Darn good beer.

22 oz. bottle from Sam’s Quik Shop (botled December 23, 2008). Dark orange pour with a creamy white head. Aroma of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, and pine. Simply awesome aroma. Bitter grapefruit flavor with the right caramel sweetness to balance. Thick and rich body. This is killer. Hard for me to find much of anything to fault with this one. Easily one of the best DIPAs around.

The best do,uble IPA I have tried. It beats Dogfish 90 hands down. The hops last on your palet.

Very good brew overall. Poured orange/copper with a creamy tan head. Aroma was full of citrus and pine hops, with a hint of malt sweetness. Taste was incredibly citrus/grapefruit with a biting finish. A very good IIPA, would drink again.

Re-rate draft: On tap at the brewery on 7/18/09. Pours clear orange copper with super frothy white head. Citrus and floral hops. Super clean finish with a great hops flavor. Still not the hopbomb of others, but much more drinkable in my mind. Bottle from Malt and Vine. Fantastic aroma and good looking copper IPA with nice white head. Unfortunately, it was a bit underwhelming. Okay bitterness, but I would’ve liked to see a bit more. Nice vanilla undertones and a good sweetness, but I expected a bit more bitter oomph out of the hercules. Still another good one from GD.

Bottle from Ryan’s Party store in Port Huron ON- A deep and hazy orangey pour with a frothy and sticky white cap. Nice lace here too. Full on piney and floral hops, orange and grapefruit, heavy on the fruity malts, some bready notes. Nice hop profile in the flavour department. Orange and grapefruit again, with mango and apricot sweetness. A bit of pine/sap comes through. Balanced malts and hops, no trace of the ABV. Quite well made. Thanks for picking this up for me Chris and Erin!

Pour is golden with a think creamy long lasting tan head. Smells of bitters and grapefruit. Mouth feel is creamy and full on the tongue. Taste is bitter , cloves, pepper, and some citrus all very mouth on the front of the tongue. Some alcohol in the finish lasting peppery sting.

Great for us Hop Heads.. Bottle copper colored with a nice head that held well. Great aroma a big hop . zthe alcohol plays well and is not that noticeable