 Swalden_28 (557), McKinney, Texas, USA
May 20, 2008
Bottle, thanks to blutt59, aka "Bob"
Poured a hazy orange/amber with off-white head, very good retention, nice looking beer. Aroma is great hoppy pineapple and grapefruit. Flavor is sweet, pineapple combined with very nice yeasty-fruit esters, with a nice hoopy bitter. Full body with low-medium carbonation but the citris feel makes up for lack of carbonation which makes this feel very nice. I really like this IIPA!!!!
lb4lb (1365), Austin, Texas, USA
Aug 27, 2008 Bottle thanks to miketd. Don’t know what it was about this bottle, but this was one of the sweetest beers I’ve ever had. Pours a nice semi clear amber with a beige head and nice lacing. Smell is watery fruitiness and tea. Taste was shockingly sweet on 1st sip. Like syrup and then lightly bitter with tea like flavor. Medium bodied. Balanced out a bit after the 1st sip, but I can’t believe the reviews of this are for the same beer I drank as it was the sweetest DIPA I’ve ever had.
Juancho (190), New York, New York, USA
Aug 19, 2008 Bomber.... Superb. Drank with Ramenen in Hippy Heaven (Panajachel Guate). Outstanding copper hazyness, yellow tinged persistent head that leaves rings on the pint glass as you drink it. Starts with a complex sour taste, followed by a perfectly balanced sweetness, all the while enveloped in citrus/grapefruit hoppiness. I’m wild about this beer. It is now my ATF.
Cheers.
MaltOMeal (274), Land of Sugar, Texas, USA
Aug 17, 2008 bomber shared at Houston BA Tasting. Pours a cloudy, orange-amber with an off-white head. Nose is of pine hops and caramel. Taste is malty and citrus hops that is well balanced. Mouthfeel is medium with a good bitter aftertaste.
JMFG (1117), Florida, USA
Aug 14, 2008 Courtesy dchmela. Orange-copper pour, sparse off-white head. Light citric hop aroma, pineapple, also some earthy malts backing. Moderately aggressive peppery hop taste, lot of pineapple, alcohol stays out of the way. Surprised by this one.
tronraner (1404), (Louis-, Sevier-, Knox-)ville, Tennessee, USA
Aug 13, 2008 Bomber. Pours orange copper with thin, sticky beige head. The aroma is lemon, lime, pineapple, a little bit of fig, some alcohol and biscuit. The flavor is sharp lemony hops with some pretty strong caramel malt sweetness. There’s an aggressive, but even, woody bitterness throughout. Pretty good, but quite a bit maltier than I like my IIPAs. Alcohol is dangerously well-masked, though.
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