Ithaca Double IPA

Brewed by Ithaca Beer Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Ithaca, New York USA

Hmmm.... Hardly a hop bomb. Looks nice, deep orange kinda hazy. Small head, minimal lacing. Smells just like a barley wine. The hops are virtually absent from the aroma.....and taste. This is a freakin barley wine unless this bottle is an old one. Style points are right on the money for this one. Only thing good I can say about this one as far as being a DIPA is that the 10% is undetectable. If they decide to call this a barley wine I’d probably have given it a higher score. Strange.

Smells of pleasant floral hop, slightly sour. Tastes very smooth and hoppy with a decent malt presence. Hides the 10% alcohol very well. Very enjoyable

bottle. Deep orange amber color with piney citrus hop aroma. Slight harsh bitterness, piney citrus hop flavor. some caramel sweetness. Decent

Dank hop aromas, citrus, piney, caramel, and a litte spicy in the aroma. Pours dark amber. Grassy, musty, with hints of cannabis, citrus, bitter flavors. A different hop flavor than most IIPAs.

Bottle. Pours orange amber with an off white head. Aroma is floral hops, and yeast with some sweetness. Medium body, very sticky and mouthfilling. Flavor is fresh bitter hops with notes of pine and caramel. Pretty good.

A great beer and one that is woth trying again. BTW, what is "yesyouam" talking about?

Ithaca Double IPA is a very clear and sparkling amber ale with a dense, light khaki head that fades to a thin film that leaves pretty nice lacing. The aroma is bright, sweet, floral and piny. There is some light cereal in the nose. It’s a well balanced aroma. There is a fruity, perhaps peachy, quality to it. Juicy. The medium bodied beer is soft and sticky, but the finish comes suddenly: crisp, dry and a little sharp. It has a nice full flavor that shows a nice balance. It is very bitter and destroys the tounge. There are flavors of tropical fruit and bubblegum. The malt is very smooth and mellow. It’s a touch sweet and boozy. The aftertaste is a long green bitterness bomb. It may be the slightest bit woody, but it’s only twigs. It fades in and out in a non-shocking manner. This beer is very straightforward. The malt simply does the needful and nonchalantly as possible, while the hops rob your tounge’s house before it gets back to the store! Seriously? This is Ithaca? It pretty much whumps this style in a simple, but unique way. I can only imagine that this was dry hopped with at least a couple different things. It’s the fresh fruity thing that sets this one apart. It’s a little more brazen than Cascazilla. Rock on, Face in the Lake!

Pours a hazed amber gold with almost no head. Nose is fairly subdued, which I find odd since I just tried the Flower Power India Pale Ale by Ithaca right before this and found the fragrance off it to be much more full and interesting. Overall the nose is a mild sweet apricot like tone with a obvious hop influence. Flavor is smooth with a touch of bitter, but mostly there is just the hop character here. Sweet overall tones. Feel is low on carbonation and slightly thick on the liquid. Overall I have to say it is odd that I am going to end up rating this one lower than the Flower Power IPA which I just reviews no less than an hour ago. It is definitely a smooth and highly drinkable DIPA. But the fact that this breweries IPA had more flair and character to it seems odd to me. Worth trying, for sure.