Rock Art Belvidere Big IPA

Brewed by Rock Art Brewery
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Morrisville, Vermont USA

22oz bottle-pours a rich to rocky light tan head that laces and copper color. Aroma is sweet citrus/pine hops, some malt. Taste is sweet orange/lemon-citrus/pine hops, secondary medium malt, some alcohol. Soft carbonation. When it warms some detracting/phynols show, so review is based on cool/chilled which occurred with the Double Smoked Porter too.

22 oz bomber purchased from Spirits Unlimited on the Lakewood/Howell border. Poured a good looking deep burnt orange with ana verage sized frothy off white head that leaves some nice lace on my newly acquired Sam Adams snifter, nice glass by the way. Aroma was lousy for an Impy IPA with no noticeable hops at all. What was there was some soggy raisin bread notes, caramel and toffee. The palate was nice enough with a fuller slightly creamy mouthfeel, light tingly carbonation and a bitter kick on the end. The flavor was mostly malts with an emphasis on bread and a slight touch of dark fruit as well. IIPA....well if this was several years old maybe.

Bottle. Pours a orangish copper color with a small off white head. very nice lacing. nose is dry, piney hop notes. Palate is filmy with a bitter, dry finish. Flavors of piney hops, light malty bniscuit notes, and a dry bitter finish.

22 ounce bottle in pint glass. Hazy copper orange with lasting head and lace. Medium aromatic hop slightly citrusy slightly biscuity aroma. Toasted toffee biscuits subdued and fruit and very dry assertive bitter grapefruit finish. Medium body. Fairly assertive flavor for a lower abv DIPA. Pretty good.

Deep copper coloured body with ruby tints, a dense tan head and a bit of orange highlights too - looks nice! Aroma of strong hops, alcohol, metal, malt, caramel and a bit of pit fruits. Full-bodied; Assertive hoppy flavour with alcohol and metal behind along with a good dose of malts and yeast. Aftertaste rough around the edges with a metallic twang and a hoppy finish along with plenty of noticeable alcohol. Overall, a good beer, definitely respectable for the style, which I don’t like too much, but can find the good aspects of this beer - a ton of hops and bitterness, which differentiate this to most other Imperial IPAs. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Liquor Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 03-October-2009, sampled at home in Washington on 18-October-2009.

pint @ Sunset Grille. Ok aroma, toasted wheat, minor citrus, caramel. Tad hazed brownish orange color, ok head and lace. Bitter sweet flavor, like aroma, Medium body, creamy mouthfeel, bitter finish. Eh, not much to grab me. I’ve been away from New England for 3 years and this reminds me why I had generally avoid this brewer. Nothing technically wrong, but uninspiring....

ྶoz bottle) Small beige head atop murky copper body. Aroma is moderately sweet, butterscotch/toffee, some pine, caramel, light nut. Taste is moderately sweet, grapefruit/pine, some floral, caramel/toffee. Medium body, light resin.

Tap at Nside. Pours a lightly hazy orange amber with a medium bubbly off white head. Aroma of fresh American hops, tea, caramel, Cheerios, floral and perfume notes. Flavor of piney and grapefruit hops, caramel, toffee and some nuts. Liked how the hops came together with the malt in this beer. Haven’t been overly impressed with the Rock Art beers but this was well done.