 TikiE (338), Sylva, North Carolina, USA
Jun 17, 2008
Bottle 22oz: Pours a hazy orange color that has a light citrus smell to it. Tastes extremely hoppy with notes of grapefruit and orange. I was expecting it to be an IPA of some sort but its good as a Barley wine....better even.
ross (1531), charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Sep 4, 2008 Bottle. Pours out a orange color with no head at all. I thought the beer was going to be dead, but it turns out that it is just very lightly carbonated. Not a bad thing really. Smells like hops, malts, some grass, caramel, and a little bit of fruits. Interesting beer, not sure I have smelled anything like this. Taste is sweet and fruity with plenty of hops and A LOT of alcohol. Its pretty much an abv bomb, but once the mouth is used to it, its actually pretty drinkable. Unusually smooth to be 11%. Not bad stuff, but its not better than Night Tripper. Still - Good stuff here, worth trying.
punkrkr27 (348), Clawson, Michigan, USA
Sep 2, 2008 Copper pour with a frothy, lasting white head and good lacing. Toasty caramel pine and grapefruit aroma. More toasted caramel malt in the flavor with hints of mango, grapefruit, pepper and dates. Creamy medium-full body with soft carbonation.
BrewCzar (62), St Louis, Missouri, USA
Sep 1, 2008 Bottle pours hazy copper with a thin off white head. Aroma is of sweet malts with a hint of orange citrus. Flavor starts sweet caramel malts and citrus. Finishes with strong bitter floral hops presence, pine, and good alcohol burn.
rajendra82 (641), Alpharetta, Georgia, USA
Aug 30, 2008 I picked this bomber up at Green’s in Greenville, South Carolina. The color of the beer was copper, the body clear, and the head quite small. For a beer with a silk screened hop cone on the label, the smell was quite subdued. I could pick up some distant earthy and citric hops, but its was nothing to rave about. The taste was much hoppier, as the spicy and bitter flavors were apparent immediately. The malt was skeletal in nature and provided a stable but unspectacular foundation. The alcohol was completely hidden, and this one drank like many IPAs rather than the barleywine strength it really was. In the mouth, this felt, oily, slippery, and mercurial. This was a very unique creation indeed, but I found it somewhat empty.
surffisher (137), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Aug 26, 2008 22 oz. bomber bottle. Pours clear bright amber, with a very small, short lasting large bubble head. Aroma is mostly citrusy and more like a double or triple IPA than a barleywine. Aroma also includes some smoky phenolics as it warms. More of a malt backbone in the flavor, though still dominated by syrupy citrus hops. Balances dry/bitter and is pretty hot in the finish.
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