Livery 2009 Carvana Birthday IIPA

Brewed by The Livery
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Benton Harbor, Michigan USA

Name: Carvana
Date: April 25, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, DLD
Vintage: 2009
Appearance: muddy burnt orange
Aroma: sweet and spicy aroma, estery fruityness, phenolics and spicy hops
Body: big body
Flavor: big sweet malt flavor, fruity esters are well balanced by the spocy hops and phenolics, well balanced bitterness
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

(750ml bottle, thanks CaptainCougar) Cloudy dark amber body with small off-white head. Aroma is moderately sweet, floral/orange, some lime, light bread. Taste is medium sweet, orange/floral/grapefruit, some lime, bread. Medium body, light resin, effervescence. Alcohol more subdued than I would expect for the ABV.

@Moosetoberfest Gathering Thanks yobdoog-750ml bottle-pours a tight retaining white head and amber color. Aroma is earthy/some resin, hint medium malt-caramel, pepper. Taste is dry/yeast/pepper, earthy/some resin, hint of medium malt-caramel. After two sips meets Biere de Garde. to yobdog for sharing.

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.

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.

750ml bottle. Cloudy dark dirty sediment brown color. Hugely floral citrus nose, peaches and blood orange citric acid.lively carbonation, syrupy and hearty. Fruit cocktail sweetness is tempered by full and frothy natural carbonation. Delicate and lovely for being so big. Intensely bitter.

Was on tap for Steve’s Birthday bash at the brewery: Hazy coppery hue with a small fading head and spotty lace. The aroma has notes of resiny, grapefruit and earthy hops, bready and caramel malts, a hint of oak and mineral water vapours. The taste displays a snappy hops forefront that is fruity and acidic supported by a layer of simple biscuity malts. The finish has a peppery and clove hop spice character along with some woody tannins and even a dash a liquorice. Wonderfully complex and surprisingly some what balanced. The mouth feel is soft and smooth with a snappy edge, chalky finish is my only complaint here. A very nice brew, powerful yet reserved, Cheers to many more birthdays Steve.

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.