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Hair of the Dog Blue Dot Imperial IPA

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5133.8/5.03.79/5.07%83.9Snifter, Tulip
Commercial Description:
Blue Dot is named after our planet: we are only a pale blue dot in this universe. A Double India Pale Ale made with Rye malt and a combination of intense hop varieties.
O.G. 1074, 100 IBUs.
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 ante (2928), Stockholm, Sweden
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/516/20
Feb 5, 2007  
Bottled. Cloudy dark orange colour. Rich sticky white foam. Piney hop aroma with notes of grapefruit, passionfruit and flowers. Loads of citric fruit in the flavour; grapefruit and lemon-rind with touches of lychee, grass and pine-needles. The body is fairly light compared to other 2IPA’s I’ve sampled. Long hoppy and bitter finish of grapefruit, grass and lemon-rind. Tasty and quite refreshing IPA.


 brstp (201), Princeton, New Jersey, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Feb 4, 2007  
On tap at Toronado. Hazy yellow orange color, surprisingly yeasty aroma with almost perfunctory citrus hops. Taste is downright bland compared to other Hair of the Dogs I’ve had but still very nice.


 TheKegergator (241), California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Feb 4, 2007  
Pours a very light amber color that is very murky. Head forms nicely and lasted quite a while. Smells almost like a belgian? Fruits are there for sure. Taste is a bit weak for a DIPA, but not bad at all. Very drinkable, thank DB.


 troopie (866), USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/519/20
Feb 2, 2007  
Hazy orange with white head, much lacing. Hop aroma with malt notes. Hoppy flavour with a quenching quality, notes of citrus, naartjies?, and malt. Lingering hop finish. Well balanced and seems lower in alcohol than it is.


 ChristianScheffel (4481), Odense, Denmark
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/514/20
Feb 1, 2007  
Hazy orange with a huge and solid white head. Aroma of leather, hay, citrus, grapefruit. Sweet at first until a big grapefruit bitterness sets in. Though it has a fair amount of bitterness it wasn’t the hop explosion I had hoped for.


tribrewer (6), California, USA
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3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/57/103/514/20
Jan 29, 2007  
Not bad, a very hazy IPA with a good amount of bitter flavor at the finish. A nice beer to start the afternoon with.


 Emil (6074), Copenhagen, Denmark
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/516/20
Jan 29, 2007  
Bottle. A hazy yellow beer with a big off-white head. The aroma is of caramel malt and dry grass, pine and grape. The taste is also Caramel malt, grass, pine and citrus in a medium body with a very long bitter dry finish.


 cewldre (268), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/51/103/512/20
Jan 24, 2007  
Bottle sent to me from kenb: Thanks. So, I open the bottle and it sounds like there is a ton of carbonation in this one. The pour is a hazy yellow with a huge amount of head. The smell is pretty strong. I note a strong smell of pine covering up a very strong scent of citrus. The taste is pretty interesting. I taste citrus and pine in here as well. It seems like there is some banana in there as well, almost like it got a little confused about being an IPA or a belgian, but then it figured it out and decided to be pretty dry and hoppy. Leaves an odd taste in my mouth. Not my favorite IPA ever.



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