Mendocino Winter Seasonal Imperial IPA

Brewed by Mendocino Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Hopland, California USA

Poured from 12 oz bottle a clear coppery hue, forming a small white head of foam. Aroma pungent of sweet caramel malts, grapefruits with pine extract. Flavour is of hops, with a particular piny and field grass back end. Rather smooth, yet bitter to please. Lacing is sexy on side of glass, however, this beer is middle of the road. A good effort from Mendocino, will drink again, but lets keep it in perspective, not a knock out.

While the Aroma, Appearance and palate are awesome, the flavor just wasn’t right. It tasted strong of hops... which is expected, but it was almost too strong - I love the 90 minute and this was much stronger then that... not sure how they got it so strong.. The alcohol was well hidden.

Bottle. Amber-bronze beer with a nice dark-cream colored head. Grapefruit and light pine aroma. Grapefruit, light pine flavor with light malt and earth. Medium-plus bodied. Some bitterness. Grapefruit and pine lingers with some earth and dustiness.

Pours pale peach-copper with a tall off white-yellow head that is big and foamy, has great retention and leaves decent lacing. Aroma is pine tar, grapefruit, thistle floral hops, a hint of toffee on the malt side but pretty weak otherwise. Flavor is big pine hops, citrus zest, lots of toffee, burnt sugar, caramel, some grain, woody malt, and plenty of spice. Finish is slightly bitter cirtrus notes and burnt sugar with a huge helping of pine. Body is medium and sticky with a good to low level of carbonation. A decent, though slightly weak IIPA.

Great copper color with a sudsy head with big bubbles surrounded by tightly packed cream. Malts had toasted bread and toffee, though it was only mildly sweet. Hops were zingy and snappy with plenty of festive spice-like aromas to boot, such as grass, grapefruit and orange rind. Strong residual bitterness lingered on the tongue. Decent stuff, though it really was not an eyebrow raiser.

Awesome aroma, pitch pine hops, sweet malts, like caramel, toffee. Nice amber/ brown color, thin white head. The flavor is more of a citrusy hop, again some pine, sweet malt, molasses, brown sugar. Very good. The finish is mainly citrus hop bitterness, grapefruit like. Medium mouthfeel. Very good IIPA overall. Definitely good for the price.

bottle purchased in pembroke pines fl. awesome double ipa for the price, hides the alcohol a little too well. heavy resin and citrus hops in the nose and taste. great malt balance. i would pick up a single bottle from time to time if i could find it.

resiney hop nose....my bad spelling....grapefruity hop flavor that fades quickly....the malt is a bit um wishy washy....perhaps past its prime?