Great Divide Hercules Double IPA

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

Find it now! Lightly hazed sunset orange, lasting off white head. Nose is just awesome with sticky sweet pine resin, citric fruit, slight hint of fuzzy fruits covered in brown sugar. Added notes of earth can be found too. Flavor just straight up rocks with rich sticky bitter pine, woods, earthy, and more heavy citric and fuzzy fruit working it’s magic. The malt is well represented with additional notes of some sweet nutty caramel. Medium to full bodied, soft carbonation, syrupy, bitter, somewhat dry finish. This is an absolute winner! Great Divide continues to impress me. Thanks again Brain. Keep up the great work!

Arching orange liqueur fountains in an enchanted hop resin sanctuary...Plentiful pale fruit thrive in abundance as flowery endeavors enrapture the numerous piney and grassy hop vines...Caramel pools mirror their wealthy sweetness onto the hop oasis and create impressive luxury...Bliss and merriment fly about, foam literally coats the glass, epicureanism does reside in this bottle...

Very nice hop presence on this one. Taste is dominated by hops with a lingering bitter aftertaste. Despite this, it still is easy to drink and tastes fairly well-balanced. I enjoyed this one quite a bit.

Oh yeah this is a bomber! Nice strong aroma of hops and citrus, just the way i like it. Tiny pieces of sediment seen in reddish orange colored beer, perfect half-inch head. Sticky residue left behind. Flavor is of hops, citrus tang, and some wood and earth. My kind of beer and the rating proves it. Thanx to Kaggie97 for tracking this down for me.

Virtually perfect in every regard! Pours a wonderful amber into the glass, with a tiny retentive head that slathers the entire glass with sudsy lace. Tons of pine and lavender floral accents to the nose, with nice grapefruit hues. The flavors are HUGE and complex.... an initial grapefruit, with "other" citrus(es) and nuts, caramel/toffee malts, and a great pine-hopped finish. Huge, huge notes of pine last for a long, lingering time on the back palate. The carbonation levels balance the pine notes to a tee. For a higher ABV, the only time you really note any alcohol is after the pine settles, post-finish. This is so "everything" an IIPA should be. Perfectly integrated... honestly! Astonishing, just awesome!

Bottled at DBF 2005. Orange coloured with a solid lacing head. Nice aroma with lots of fruits and hops. Nice sweet flavour with lots of fruits and hops. Nice long bitter finish. Not as bitter as North Bridge Extreme.

Hello, Hops! Wait, a nice malty flavor. Oh my god, bitter beyond belief. This brew is balanced even though it is extreme. It’s a delayed reaction like eating a habanero pepper. It’ sweet, then hoppy, then overwhelmingly bitter. I love this!

Pours a dark copper to amber color and makes a modest offwhite head that lingers for quite a while. Aromatics are nutty and sweet, yummy pine cones. Flavor opens up with a moderate bitterness, followed by a nutty character and lots of pine, grapefruit, caramel and sweet chewy finish. This is really good! This one is thick on the palate, leaves a lingering syrupy quality and warmth from the alcohol. I look forward to finding this one again... its very drinkable. Sadly, it is not available in my area.