Midnight Sun Gluttony Triple IPA

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

Date: 05/03/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

clear golden, frothy off white head, sweet caramel malt aroma with earthy and piney hops, lots of tart bitter flavor, touch of caramel malts tries to add balance but can’t compete with the hops, the bitterness turns your mouth into a puckering desert,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4

(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.

22oz bottle acquired in trade with puzzl (thanks!). Poured a medium orange/amber color with an averaged sized off white head. Initial pour was crystal clear with the subsequent pours clouding and included floaters. Aromas of melons, citrus, pine, and caramel. Tastes of citrus, lots of grapefruit, pine, and just a trace of caramel. This one was one hop bomb (which is not a bad thing for me). Nicely bitter with a very light malt balance. Light alcohol in the finish but not giving way that it was 10+%.

bottle@Hoboken#1-pours a retaining patchy off white head and hazy gold color. Aroma is sweet pine, secondary medium malt. Taste is alcohol, somewhat bitter pine hops, secondary medium malt.

Pours a transparent copper orange with a full-lacing white head. Aroma of lightly sweet earthy caramel malt and some mildly grapefruity hops. Body starts fairly full, viscous and sweet, with plenty of bittering grapefruity hops and a drier, mildly warming finish. Needs more flavor and aroma hops, but otherwise a pretty big beer.

Very bright orange beer, hazy/cloudy with a thin white head. Aroma is so awesome... juicy and fruity and loaded with grapefruity, mango, papaya and even more tropical frutiness. Lean bodied and very drinkable. Loads of richly aromatic hops over the lean pale malt. Cooling minty/peppery booziness on the back. A very tasty IIPA. Would love to revisit a full bottle of this one myself.

Poured a lightly hazed amber color with a small white head. The aroma has a light citrus and a good amount of pine. The flavor is piney with some grapefruit. Decent but very short caramel sweetness. Then dries out quickly with a moderately bitter finish. very nice warmth.

Bomber. Poured medium orange with light sediment and a fine cap of off-white head. The aroma indicated serious hoppage with floral, pine, apricot, and grassy notes over a well-hidden caramel and pale malt base.. aggressive and enticing. The flavor held the same themes with spicy, resiny bitterness (pine, grapefruit, and grassy notes) over primarily pale malts at the core.. more bitter yet on the finish with alcohol amplification. Heavier-bodied with ideal carbonation on the palate.. bitterness was just a bit too assertive.. overall a very good and challenging brew.