Lost Coast Double Trouble IPA

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

Draft at Isaac Newtons - no notes taken, but I remember fairly well. Orange color (cloudy) with a very sweet piney-grapefruit aroma. Flavor was a bit too sweet and unbalanced. Not bad, but could have been much better for the style.

This IPA had some serious bite to it. Bitterness is almost overwhelming when drinking. Had a heavy hop aroma with a golden color that tasted strong, but not to heavy.

Draft pint at KClingers. Reddish amber with a firm pillowy head. Oily hop aroma. Full bodied drinker with lots to it -- thick and woodsy, with a heavy spicy twist and a big earthy finish. Tangy and metallic at the end. Good IPA with some gusto. (#3216, 11/24/2007)

Full amber with aroma and flavor full of simoce fruity goodness. A bit strong, but fairly well balanced.

Draught @ Brouwer’s Café: Deep amber, somewhat fiery, moderate foamy off-white head, spotty lacing.   Sweet malty nose, kind of candyish, hop presense is there but takes a back seat to the malts.   Big malt flavors up front, somewhat sweet, hop presense that isn’t over bearing.   Good, up to par with respect to malts, but could stand to be a bit more hoppy.   Mod body and mouthfeel. Reminds me of an agedand toned down Doggie Claws because of the malts.

Draught (End of Keg): Aroma of citrus, hops, tropical fruit, and floral hops. Poured a turbid, orange, color with a small white head that diminished. Lots of huge hop particles. Opaque. Excellent lacing. Flavor of floral hops, citrus, and grapefruit. Medium body. Average texture. Average carbonation. Hoppy grapefruit finish.

Draft at DRE. Turbid deep dull gold pour with off-white head. Hop, spicy fruit, and bready malt aroma, with the bready malt dominating the taste, and a solid but not overpowering hop presence. Not a hop bomb, but rather a somewhat citric, hopped up blonde ale with some bready and spicy finsihing notes. This one needs to define its criteria, and then master those criteria.

On draft at the Abbey bar. This poured a cloudy orange color with a thin white head that dissipated quickly. The aroma was of fresh piney hops with some sweet malts. The flavor was big of malt and candy sweetness with the piney hops pushing their way through. The malts seemed to be in the forefront with the hops bitterness in the background. There was some citrus fruit in there as well. I thought this was more of a regular IPA than a double with the amount of hops. It was still pretty tasty and very drinkable though. This was good, but just lacked the necessary hops to be a double.