Laughing Dog Devil Dog Imperial IPA

Brewed by Laughing Dog Brewing
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Ponderay, Idaho USA

From the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 12/10/2007 Very hoppy and fruity aroma. Small white head. Golden coloured and very hoppy with a fruity bitter lasting finish.

22oz from the grocery store. Orange-Amber with a thin white head, no lacing. Aroma was citrus. Flavor was citrus and a nice amount of bitter not too sweet but balanced.

Bottle at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Pours out in a shady copper colour with a small white head, Strong but still rounded aroma of flowers, grass, resin crackers, passion fruit and pine. Nearly full-bodied with fresh and rou nded notes of pine, grass, apricots and lemon-zest. Long hop bitter finish of pine, lemon-zest and grapefruit.

Pour is clear copper with a nice white head and lacing all down the glass. Fruity grapefruit aroma. Caramel malt sweetness. Grassy hops that yield to some grapefruit and a long lasting bitter hop finish.

22 oz bottle. Pours a slightly hazy dark copper body with a great two finger fluffy beige head that left tons of thick creamy lacing. Nice hoppy nose, quite a mix but I do get some Simcoe. Fairly heavt toasty and caramel malt. Reminds me a little bit of Double Simcoe. I’m not really digging the flavor of the hop profile as much though. Can’t even describe it really, citrus pith and pineapple mostly, but as a mix it’s rather harsh. The heavy caramel malt comes on a little strong and it’s too sweet for me at the same time. A little clingy and thick due to the heavy malt profile, there’s a lot of resiny hop stickiness in the finish. This just doesn’t do it for me. Either pick tons of hops or tons of malt, but not both.

22oz bottle. Pours a lightly hazed rusty orange color with a 2 finger thick beige head that left some nice lacing on the tulip glass. Nose was lightly hopped with tons of sweet malts and candied tree fruits. Flavor was much of the same with a nice bitter kick at the end to remind me this was an IIPA. Seemed like this beer might have been sitting around a bit before I got it seeing as it was lacking the big hop punch in the nose, still a pretty tasty brew.

22 oz bottle from Market of Choice. My 666th review!!! And what an appropriate choice. Light amber-orange in color with a tiny white head with little retention and moderate lacing. Aroma of citrus fruit, tangerine and grapefruit, light orange. Flavor is very citrus and pine, the slightest bit bitter and a tad boozy. A solid IIPA, would definitely drink again.

Bottled. An amber beer with an off-white head. The aroma has notes of sweet malt, hops, grass, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, hops, grass, and alcohol, leading to a quite bitter finish.