Lost Coast Double Trouble IPA

Brewed by Lost Coast Brewery & Cafe
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Eureka, California USA

Draft pours an amber body with a creamy off white head. Light bready malty body with a a light hoppy citrus character with a light pine and grapefruit with a spicy hop finish. Good brew.

On tap at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Nice hazy red copper colour, but poured with a small head. Delicious raisins and caramel aromas, followed by more bitter dry nuttiness as well as fruit in the mouth. Solid trouble.

Tap @ Green Dragon... Poured deep, clear amber with a beige head. Aroma was faint with floral hops. Dry palate, strong hops but very mellow for a double. Also some smoothing malt for balance. Finished with a sticky residue in my mouth.

Draught @ BTAH VSK, ’05 vintage. Pours a cloudy orange-amber, light, with a pillowy off-white head.Nose is an almost candy caramel malt sweetness, citrus - like a bowl of candied pineapple. Taste is a big, sweet malt body, lots of very rich caramel, underpinning a nice, hoppy citrus hop note throughout. Dry, light bitterness, and just a hint of astringency. Medium body, crisp but light carbonation.

Draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Pours out in a hazy reddish amber colour with a small creamy off-white foam. Resinous and grapefruity hop aroma with touches of mango, orange-peels and pine-needles. medium to full-bodied with notes of pine-needles, grapefruit, raspberries, mango and grass. Long bitter finish of resin, grass and grapefruit with perfumy undertones of apricots.

Draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Cloudy reddish amber, small creamy head. Grapefruity nose where resin already comes through. Sweet with bold straightforward mouthfeel and solid body. The bitterness strikes hard and early, and reaches punishing levels. Meanwhile there’s notes of mango and cookies. A typical American macho beer with punk attitude.

(Draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm, 17 June 2008) Amber colour, hazy, with beige head. Fruity, hoppy nose with dried fruit, resin, grapefruit and orange peel. Fruity, hoppy taste with notes of grapefruit, orange peel, dried apricots, resin, pine needles and toffee. Well balanced bitterness, fairly sweet, chewy mouthfeel. Nice one.

Tap at Blind TIger. Beautiful amber-orange colour with a thick creamy sticky head. Aroma is very much like fresh cereal, sweet cookie dough/biscuity malts with notes of wildflower honey. Aroma is also lightly floral and fruity. Some orange peel, grapefruit and more sweet honey. Very low on cohumulones giving it an extremely soft but lingering bitterness. Quite fruity, but not the usual C-hop combination. There is a fairly berryish sweetness and a light herbal quality as well. Seems barleywinish in the way that the sweet cookie dough malts seem to dominate the hops. An unusual take on the IIPA style.