Ølfabrikken 100 gram IPA

Formerly brewed at Bryggeriet Ølfabrikken (Gourmetbryggeriet)
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Roskilde, Denmark

600 ml bottle in Duvel glass. Hazy caramel orange with lasting flat head. Citrus orange hop and orange syrup/soda sweet aroma. Sweet caramel orange sweet fruitiness with mildly bitter orangy lingering earthy hop bitterness. Medium body and carbo. A complex mix of ill-matched unpleasant flavors that works neither as an IPA or a Belgian IPA.

Bottle that I think I purchased, but if credit is due somewhere than thank you. Color was an amber and orange color with a small off white head. Aroma of caramel, earth, grass and citrus. Flavor had a nice caramel presence with an equal amount of hopping. Flavor lingered for a while. Average hoppines for the style and also very earthy.

Bottle shared via piscator- dark orange in colour with fairly significant head. Nose- orange candy and sweet malts. Taste- syrupy, orange and bready caramel malts, not much bitterness left. Quite cloying at this stage of the bottles life. Finishes with some bitterness. Drinkability suffers some due to overall sweetness and thickness of malt. Would likely been quite nice when fresh.

Bottled sampe. Burnt orange in colour, with moderate carbonation. Aromas are of bready and caramely malts, with some citrus fruit and booze notes lurking in the background. Fairly sweet and heavy in the mouth, with only a moderate amount of bitterenss. Caramel and candied citrus fruit are the dominant flavors, with a bit of pine in the background. Seemed a bit barleywine-like to me, which makes sense when you consider the age of it.

Bomber, 2005 vintage. Murky orange amber with a big light tan head. Spicy orange nose, pink grapefruit too. Oh, this is delish - sweet flavors of light brown sugar and orange, not really very bitter any more, but some grapefruit rind flavors come through. Nice lace rings. Some pine comes through late. Nice stuff - kinda want to try a fresh one - how about brewing this baby again?

Bottle. Pours a hazy dirty orange with a small light tan head. Aroma of bitter hops, sweet caramel malt, and dark fruits. Flavor of brown sugar with an odd vegetal and bitter finish. Definitely a strong beer with a slightly syrupy mouthfeel. Not bad though and it probably was better fresh, but it’s still pretty good somewhat aged.

Bottle. Aroma of earthy, bready caramel malt, some pine manages to make its way out from buried deep in the background. Flavor is sweet malt with prunes, figs, some citrus from the long-ago 100 IBU’s, and also notable remnants of pleasant bitterness. Still remains on the too-sweet side of things, a bit cloying, but not in a dreadful way, just a drink-it-now-before-it-does-turn-dreadful way. I do wish I had been able to have one of these fresher, but still glad I did end up with one.

22 oz. bottle. Pours a hazy orange amber with a moderate-large off-white head that lasted through two-thirds of the glass and left partial lace. Aroma is caramel, oranges and very sweet syrup. It really smells excessively sweet. The flavor is caramel, orange, intensely sweet syrup, and band-aids. Some grapefruit emerges towards the finish amid some fairly strong bitterness. I enjoy sweet things, but this was too sweet, even for me, and although I finished the first glass, I ended up pouring the remainder of the bottle down the drain. Age certainly did not agree agree with this beer, or at least this bottle.