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Livery 2009 Carvana Birthday IIPA 3.2 23

Livery 2009 Carvana Birthday IIPA


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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
233.33/5.03.2/5.0Special9.5%8Snifter, Tulip
Commercial Description:
The 2009 Carvana brewed to celebrate Steve’s birthday. A huge beer with 110 IBU via the use of Amarillo and Cascade and hops including a finishing dry-hop. The malt bill and yeast this year are American.
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 CaptainCougar (5517), Rockville, Maryland, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Oct 4, 2009  
Bottle thanks to shawnm213: Pours a transparent copper bronze with a well-lacing off-white head. Aroma of fresh juicy grapefruity hops and good light caramel malty sweetness. Starts with good fullness and resiny citrusy hops with a nice toasty caramel sweetness for balance before a drier bittersweet, slightly warming finish. A pretty good IIPA.


 Rciesla (3720), Exit 15W, New Jersey, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/103/514/20
Jul 22, 2009  
Stratford tasting @ Cletus house. Pours an amber body with an off white head. Floral dry earthy body with a grassy pepper finish. Nice brew.


 Cletus (5056), Connecticut, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Jul 19, 2009  
Pours copper with a white head. Smells dry, grassy and sweet. Tastes dry and sweet with a spicy finish. This was very belgian in taste.


 CharlesDarwin (1849), Point Judith, Rhode Island, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/516/20
Jun 5, 2009    Updated: Jun 6, 2009
750mL Bottle. A slightly foamy hop character, with a bit of hop cone pungency. Pours a cloudy reddish amber, with a real creamy off-white. Flavor is wicky-wack. There’s some weird caramel red malt and a bit of funky brett belgian that doesn’t pull through. Very dry and a little alcoholic. Harsh at times. Crisp and leafy. This is okay, but a bit weird. As it warms, it softens a little somehow, gives more less harsh hop expression and yields detail in some of the hop character.


 1FastSTi (2569), Glendale, Wisconsin, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/102/510/20
May 26, 2009  
Thanks Jason. The beer pours to a deep ruby mahogany body with a nice champagne carbonation and a really tall frothy off-white head. The aroma is floral and soapy. Dove or other hand soaps. The flavor is bitter soaps and hops. The palate is extremely bitter and unbalanced. Almost oily. This is hugely disappointing.


 WeeHeavySD (3009), San Diego (Hillcrest), California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/513/20
May 26, 2009  
10th rating, 750ml via BBB63, shared with bartzilla. Pours deep orange with a 2 finger tan head. Nose is sweet, hoppy, and nice. Taste is sweet, hoppy, resin, overall not bad.


 Ughsmash (4050), Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/511/20
May 25, 2009  
Thanks to Mike for the 750! Poured hazy coppery-garnet with a gigantic beige head. The aroma gave a floral, soapy initial impression over genero-pale malts.. softer spices and a touch of earth as well.. too soapy for my liking. The flavor was also soapy with floral and lighter fruit bitterness rising through the drink.. bitterness really ramped up through the finish, losing some character.. pale and somewhat bready malts at the core.. rough finish. Heavier-bodied and well-carbonated on the palate with huge bitterness all over the place.. hot at the end.. never came together for me.


 bitbucket (2034), Kirkland, Washington, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/513/20
May 19, 2009  
Pours cloudy light amber with a lacy pale yellow head. Earthy aroma with fruit esters and flowers. Medium body. Earthy finish that leaves just a little band-aid.



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