Pennichuck Chief’s Imperial IPA

Brewed by Pennichuck Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Milford, New Hampshire USA

Pours a clear amber with beige head. Aroma of sticky pine hops, caramel malts. Very sweet up front with lingering pine hops. Very smooth for a double IPA.

Bomber shared at Scottyp’s housewarming tasting. Pours a vibrantly clear coolaid red with decent layer of tan head. Nose is sweet and caramel with hints of dogfood, and honey. Flavor adds a big helping of alcohol, with honey, and floral old hops. Boozy and awesome.

Pours a lasting ring of beige head with a clear ruby body. Aromas of resin, pine, and bitter citrus. Flavor is citrus, resin, spicy, caramel. Finish is bitter and a little sticky.

pours amber with thick beige head. Aroma is hoppy, plenty of good caramel malts in the nose. Flavor, overall palate remains sweet with caramel malts, some hints of chocolate. There is a distinct grainy note with some lingering floral hops. One fine DIPA.

Tap at burkowskis in cambridge. Reddish amber with a nicevwhite head. Nose is more sweet than hoppy. Good bitter flavor but a very sweet finish with lots of caramel and sugar. Good, but far from great.

Courtesy of sebletitje. It pours copper with thin off white head. The aroma is rich thick malts and pine hops and feels pretty nice. The taste is thick with viscous malty goodness moving into both pine hop flavor and pine hop bitterness. It carries on like this into the finish. Very tasty stuff, this. It seems a bit of a malt forward type IIPA.

An interesting Impy/Double IPA, in that it did not much resemble the style. Missing was the overwhelming citrusy hop nose, taste and bitterness I expected (and have come to love)An interesting Impy/Double IPA, in that it did not much resemble the style. Missing was the overwhelming citrusy hop nose, taste and bitterness I expected (and have come to love) based on leaders in the style like Plinys, Dreadnaught, DFH 90 and Ruination. More dominating was a thick, sweet malty essence, with just enough of the forementioned hops to blend well. Throw in the presence of the 10% abv, and this was a very enjoyable beer from a brewer I had never heard of

Bottle from 46er3498. Thanks Tom! This one has a mostly sweet aroma with lots of caramel, toffee, some sugars, light pine/citrus hops, but mostly sweet and malt forward. Pours a really pretty amber color with some reddish/purplish hues and a wonderful creamy head and good lace. Really a nice looking beer. Sweet up front and pretty much throughout. Lots of caramel, toffee, and sugars. Not cloying, just well done sweetness approaching barley wine waters. Malt forward aspect is followed by citrus, pine and pepper in the finish that linger for a minute. Smooth and creamy with a hint of alcoholic heat in the finish as well. The more I think about it the more I enjoyed it even though it was the antithesis of how I like my IIPA’s...