 Tejas (698), Dallas, Texas, USA
| 1.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 3/10 | 3/5 | 4/10 | 1/5 | 6/20 |
Sep 4, 2009 94? Wow! This was gross. Hopefully, this was a bad bottle but I doubt it. Didn’t taste infected or like cardboard just tasted bad. Tasted like astringent smells. Just harsh on the palate and harsh flavors to boot.
mspindler (310), Alta Loma, California, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Aug 18, 2009 22 oz. bottle. Pours medium brown with a hint of red and a very tall tan head. Aroma has floral and citrus hints, but the maltiness dominates with nutty caramel, toasted bread and a touch or roastiness. Flavor is powerfully bitter but without any real subtle malt characteristics. Seems more like a barley wine to me. Palate is thick and sticky and carbonation is high.
Pawola22 (752), Kansas City, Missouri, USA
| 2.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 3/10 | 2/5 | 8/20 |
Aug 17, 2009 22oz bottle. Pours a hazy, ruby-brown colored body with a finger-width, tan, foamy head that dissipates quickly and leaves a moderate lacing. Aroma is some weird metallic bittering hops and a semi sweet caramel. Strong grapefruits and a bit salty. Flavor is pretty rotten. I hope this is a bad bottle. Moldy, intense, biting bitterness that makes this utterly sour. Strong piney grapefruit, a chewy caramel, and a light coffee acidic twang. Medium bodied and overly carbonated. Overall, this tastes like a homebrew gone bad. Damn I hope I got a bad bottle, this is pretty hard to take down.
satan165 (581), River Grove, Illinois, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 2/5 | 15/20 |
Aug 11, 2009 aroma is strong resin and a whiff of rubbing alcohol! scary enough, it isnt really that offensive. appearance is cloudy ruby. despite the color which seems to foreshadow another malt bomb, or barley wine masquarading as an IIPA, this is a traditional balls out bitter hop assault. not alot of citrus in the flavor or nose, but that damn isopropyl note contains to make itself known during each and every sip, and unlike the first, it is starting to wear on me. a touch of late grapefruit in the flavor. this is a rude and unrefined imperial.
NachlamSie (1641), Tennessee, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Jul 31, 2009 Bomber from ’Bruisin. Pours a bold orange red with a great head. The aroma is slightly sour with hints of ammonia, grass, weed, and light pineapple. The flavor is not quite what I was expecting from a Californian IIPA. It is not so heavy on citrus or hop definition, it’s just strongly bitter throughout with a surprising coffee flavor. I’m not talking a really malty, roasty quality, just a faint hint at coffee in the finish. This is a weird IIPA, dank, and not what I was expecting.
SamGamgee (1455), Santa Cruz (La Selva), California, USA
| 2.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 4/5 | 4/10 | 3/5 | 9/20 |
Jul 25, 2009 22oz bottle. Hazy copper red with a lasting head. Funky aroma that almost smells like brett, and some light fruity hops. Light roasted malt with light tartness, sweet caramel, and a bitter finish. Medium-full body with high carbonation. Lacking much hop character and almost definitely infected. Even without the infection, this hardly resembled a DIPA. Too much darker malt and not enough hops. The tart edge might have actually made it better.
17thfloor (1484), Chicago, Illinois, USA
| 2.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 2/5 | 11/20 |
Jul 24, 2009 22oz bomber. Pours a murky brown with a bubbly off-white tall froth. Nothing really spectacular about the aroma, would definitely have to tell me its a double IPA if judging from that alone, C-hops, grapefruit, light pine, chewy caramel. Flavor is quite caramelly and chewy, straight C-hop flavor, not really tasting any of the Amarillo, a bit plasticy really, hides the 9% well I suppose, definitely bitter, just a bit of a mess flavor wise. Really strangely carbonated, lots of corse and very sharp soda bubbles with a chalky body. Not my type of double IPA.
emacgee (1884), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Jul 22, 2009 Pours an amber orange with a two finger creamy dirty white head. The nose is piny, sweet caramel, peanut shell, nice malty sweetness, some citrus rind. Flavor is crisp and bitter, some peanut shell, citrus rind, nice malt balance. Nice present piny bitterness. Not bad, just not great for an IIPA.
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