Olde Towne Emancipation Double IPA

Brewed by Olde Towne Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Huntsville, Alabama USA

@Noogfest High5 Thanks beerhawk and unclejedi-growler-pours an offwhite head and amber color. Aroma is pine/resin. Taste is pine/resin hops bite, sweet medium malt.

Growler sample at Noogfest High 5. Poured a clear dark copper color with an average frothy off-white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate earthy hop aroma. Medium body with a slick texture and soft carbonation. Medium to heavy bittersweet flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate to long duration. My expectations where met with a new high gravity beer.

Noogfest High 5 sample. The body was dark copper with a yellow khaki head on top. The aroma was sweet peaches with some bread. The taste was bitter grapefruit with some bread crust. There was also a nice almond note in the finish. Good, but not great.

Sampled from 64-oz growler from the Alabama Group during Darkness Day 2009 in Brooklyn Center, MN. Pours a dark copper amber colored brew with a fast dissolving off-white head. Aroma of caramel malt, some citrus zest and a hint of pine. Taste is medium bodied, with flavors of sweet apricots, caramel malt and a touch of citrus zest. Finish is slightly sweet with a grainy caramel malt aftertaste and a hint of bitterness. A tad light on the hop profile but it still drank pretty good.

A medium orange/brown pour with a cramy white head and lace. Medium piney hops with a nice caramel malt kicker. Sweet caramel malt flavor with a nice balance ever green bittering. Medium full bodied beer that is very nice.

draft at brewery pours copper, beige head. aroma hoppy tough not overly hoppy as most DIPA, sweet bubblegum notes. taste, too malty for the style, bordering a young barley wine. some hops, fruits, spices adn with age this would totally lose most of the hop profile of a DIPA. A good try that could be perfected.

Sampled at Noogfest High 5. Very exciting to see high gravity beer coming from Alabama. It pours an amber color with fluffy beige head. The aroma is excellent with lots of American hops--orange, grapefruit, pine-- and some slight honey and cookie notes. The flavor is fruity with a nice pine bitterness. Some toast lies behind it and some disembodied general bitterness floats around. Pine lasts long after the finish. It’s a good sign if stuff like this starts coming from AL.

Noogfest High 5. Sample from a growler thanks to unclejedi. Solid red, thin off white head. Aroma is big pine aroma. Taste is caramel, great bittering pine, spice hop finish.