 italarican (169), Astoria, New York, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 3/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Jun 20, 2009 Bottled on 5/26/09. Pours a orangish gold, slightly hazy, with a bit white head that quickly dissipates until a 1mm head stays stuck to the surface. Awesome aroma of orange juice, pineapple, and hops. Flavors of orange juice and pineapple are prominent. The hops are wonderful, and there’s a surprising amount of malt flavor as well. Punches you in the throat with bitterness but quickly fades; a very pleasant rush. Nice and crisp with a bit of wonderful bubbly goodness. I’m surprised how easy this is to drink. I will have to make this a regular pickup when I’m in California.
Grovlam (3809), Copenhagen, Denmark
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jun 20, 2009 bottle. Largen fin bubbled white head that mostly lasted. Good display of lacework. Light cloudy golden color. Aroma of pineapple and fruit, peach, grapefruit, mild mallt, caramel, nutty. Medium bodied, average carbonation, dry texture. Moderated bitter and sweet. Fruity smooth finish with a bitter dry twist.
hirigalzkar (570), Stockholm, Sweden
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jun 19, 2009 Bottle. Ap: Hazy golden. Big white head. Ar: Fruity and sweet. Mild grapefruit, pineapple and cookies. Fla: Extremely fruity, semi-bitter grapefruit, fresh hops, nice (medium) bitterness. Ov: Well balanced sweet, fresh and fruity rather than extreme and bitter.
DalzAle (488), Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jun 18, 2009 Wow, I’ve wanted this one for a while and have had it twice in one week! (Thanks to Skinnyguy for sharing, and StFun for sending me a bottle out of nowhere!) Hazy apricot pour, medium carbonation and smells of resinous pine and grapefruit. Flavor is tons of hops (of course), orange, sour grapefruit and then finishes very dry with plenty of herbson the aftertaste. Solid DIPA.
hanniku (12), Jyväskylä, Finland
| 4.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 20/20 |
Jun 17, 2009 Bottled, thanks vode! Pale amber color. Small white head. Intense and rich sweetish aroma: a lovely pungent hoppiness with citrus, grapefruit, apricot and pine. The rich and full flavor follows the aroma with a very strong but also well balanced and even soft hoppiness. The drying hoppy aftertaste is enduring and rich too. A magnificent double india pale ale, especially when it is possible to drink the beer as fresh.
DaMenace123 (251), Houston, Texas, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jun 16, 2009 Had the draught. Piney hop smell. Flavor was great, hoppy but balanced with a nice bitter edge and aftertaste. Very good IPA.
Alasdair (76), New Zealand
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Jun 15, 2009 What else can you say about this legend. Great aroma; massive flavour. The balance, rounded bitterness, and drinkability really did it for me. What a beer!
Doppelganger (1353), Dry County, Arkansas, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Jun 15, 2009 Tap, at the Falling Rock Taphouse in Denver. Gold with very fine, long-lived white head. Ultra-fresh bright hop flower aroma, hops green and crushed right off the vine. Abundant fresh green hop flavor, very lively and pungent, just a light malt backdrop. But then a husky hop pellet flavor begins to show up, and a lot of the magic is tainted. Not at all too bitter, just that horse-feed sack quality of lots of pellets that just really distracts from the pleasure of the flower thing, which had been going so well. Brilliant aroma, and still impressive, but not what I want my hop bombs to taste like.
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