Midnight Sun Gluttony Triple IPA

Formerly brewed at Midnight Sun Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Anchorage, Alaska USA

Bottle thanks BrianK. This hop bomb pours amber and hazy. Aroma Hopbomb, pine, honey, and some sweet malt. Flavor is just that but with an incredible domination of 200ibu’s wreaking havoc on your palate, an experience thats for sure.

Bomber sampled in mid April ’08....seeing how the first ratings were in April ’07... I can only assume this is a yearly batch? It sure didn’t taste a year old. Either way - I seemed to dig this more than most. This is hefty but crazy drinkable. Packed with a hefty malt dose, but manages to pull through the bitterness. Tangy fruits dance around with the sticky, caramel covered pine cones. This shit is really, really solid - gives me thought of fresh yulesmith amped up a notch. Considering they were going for such a fat beer, I can’t find anything extremely unenjoyable or wrong with this. Except that the fact that one glass is enough.

bottle, golden color IPA with amber light head, grapefruit, citrus with a bitter finish

I thought this was just a little overpowering, more of a nod to the dumb downed west coast styles, nothing but hops here, floral to bitter, down to grassy and buttery in the finish. Has kind of a candied caramel malt backbone, but nothing can stand up to the hop onslaught here Very true to its name.

Copper color with a decent white lacy head. Floral and slight citrus in the smell. A pleasing bitterness. Nice mouthful. Better and better as you keep drinking. Hops flavored with the citrus and grassy notes coming through.

(22oz. bottle) Pours a hazy orange body with a small off-white head. Aroma of canned pineapple, grapefruit, honeydew, and caramel. Flavor of hops (grapefruit, pineapple, pine) and some caramel malt with a bitter finish.

Pours clear copper with a slight chill haze. A dense, white head built to a full two inches and remained for several minutes. The high krauesen of foam slowly receded to a partial skim coat on the surface, revealing exaggerated strings of lacy froth. Aromatics are floral and pungent. Tangerines and peaches make thier presense known, as well as spruce oil-laced grapefruit. A promise of alcohol comes forward under the tropical resins, and a light maltiness follows through. The mouthfeel is crisp, drying, and resinous. Sticky and sappy. The pallet is dominated by aggresive hopping. The bitterness is as subtle as a buzzsaw on the tongue, but does not cross into harsh territory. Loads of hopping in the flavor of the brew also. Heavy on the grapefruit, with the peach/ pear/ orange character in the background. Maltiness is at a minimum, but still adding a decent backbone to the weight of the hops. Finishes with an extremely lingering crisp dryness, grapefruit pith, warming alcohols and a tongue-scraping bitterness. A huge IIPA from Midnight Sun, and damn fresh.

Bomber (thanks to robertburns) poured a hazy copper with a lasting amber head. Aromas of pine, earthiness, grapefruit and light carmel. Palate was light to medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of carmel, citrus, metal and light earthiness with a dry lingering bittreer finish.
The mettallic taste really killed this one for me.