Mendocino Winter Seasonal Imperial IPA

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

My first brew from Mendocino. orange/amber pour with a nice creamy of white head. Grapefruit and pine scent. Decent hoppy bite, balanced bready finish with the hops. A good beer, I will try some of their others now.

Very solid ipa from a very solid brewery. Hoppy and sweet, very thick, nice stuff.

12oz bottle. Pours a clear, amber colored body with a finger-width, creamy, beige-tan head that dissipates slowly and leaves a nice lacing. Aroma isn’t explosive like some DIPA’s, but its nice and clean. A sweeter and bigger caramel malt backing with a moderate amount of piney citrus. Some bread joins the orange, lemon, and apricot fruits. Flavor is sweet malts up front with plenty of sweet, resiny hops. Some lemony grapefruits and orange with a light apricot join the fatter caramels for a simple, but well balanced flavor. Finishes with a resiny, moderate bitterness and lots of sweet hops and malts that linger for a good amount of time. A light toasty malt creeps in there too. Medium body and smooth with an average carbonation. Overall, this was part of a build your own 6-pack and came away as the clear favorite from the bunch. A balanced, sweeter, well hopped DIPA with a lightly toasted, sweeter caramel malt. Everything comes together nicely for an enjoyable, smooth beer.

This brew was ok. I liked the subtle nutty notess that came out from the exhale. It was sweet. I totally liked the cool hawk and dug the ferocious hops presence that was actually pretty lame but it was cool it wa s there if that makes sense? not a bad brew for sure but not one to lead off the winter season with....albeit at tasty one

This poured a bright orange color with a big fluffy white head. Aroma was pungeant piney and grapefruit hops, some apricot in there as well, also some bready notes. Flavor was terrifically balance toasted malts to keep the bitterness in check, but with a great resinous hoppy taste. This definately exceeded my expectations.

Poured a clear orange/amber with a tall creamy light tan head. There was a nice amount of carbonation bubbles rising in the glass. A strong grapefruit aroma was detected immediately. There was a strong hop bite right away with flavors of grapefruit and pine and some sweet malt backbone underneath. The finish was of a good hop bitterness that lasted a long time on the back of the throat. The head left a light lacing all through the glass. Very good beer full of good hop character.

This ipa definitely has a malty backbone but certainly some nice bitter and resin-like hop aftertaste. Its certainly more of an east coast ipa in that its not as hoppy but overall more balanced. The color is a dark orange and it leaves a very nice aftertaste. Its nothing crazy like most double ipas out there but it certainly is a nice addition.

Bottle. Pours a clear, amber color with a sparse, frothy white head. Lacing is a bit weak. Aromas of all hops and more hops, hints of grapefruit and a touch of malt. Mouthfeel is very smooth to start, then gets a bit lively toward the end. Slick finish. Flavors of grapefruit, citrus, and some malts. The more I drank this beer, the better it became. I think it may need to age a bit and could be a great beer.