 zizzybalubba (367), Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA
| 4.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 10/10 | 5/5 | 10/10 | 5/5 | 19/20 |
Apr 27, 2009 500 mL bottle from South Bay Drugs (bottled April 7th; how’s that for fresh). Pours orange with a nice off-white head. Powerful aroma of grapefruit and pine. Taste is a fantastic blend of grapefruit and citrus; only moderately sweet mostly just in your face hops. Surprisingly drinkable at 8%. I had this once on tap but I think I like it in the bottle better. This is exactly what a DIPA aspires to be.
TampaBrew (805), Tampa, Florida, USA
| 4.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 10/10 | 4/5 | 10/10 | 4/5 | 19/20 |
Apr 26, 2009 pours a beautiful orange. smells of tons of citrus and pine. flavor is citrus, pine, sweet malt, hop resin, and floral hop goodness. I could drink this all day long.
Duhast500 (176), , Massachusetts, USA
| 4.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 10/10 | 5/5 | 10/10 | 5/5 | 19/20 |
Apr 24, 2009 Poured from a 22oz. bottle into a pint glass.
The color a light yellowish orange, hazy with a great amount of foamy and bubbly white head.
The smell is very piny. The floral hops are very evident here. It tickles your nose and gives you a preview of things to come.
Finally the taste, the taste that has been building for months and it is good. The amount of hops is pushing through all other flavors. Being an IPA it gives you just the right amount of hops, floral and some citrus hops as well.
It has a great feel to this beer. It is a fantastic brew. An IPA for the ages and it really is worth the wait.
SorenE (113), , New Zealand
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Apr 24, 2009 Pliny made it all the way to NZ in pretty good shape!
hazy, light amber, small fluffy head. aromas of pineapple, pine, citrus, peaches maybe and caramel maltiness. Flavor is kinda sweet, resiny and all of the above. Bitterness is high but suprsingly not off the chart. Very tasty indeed.
snuffla (96), Chch, New Zealand
| 4.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 19/20 |
Apr 24, 2009 Updated: Sep 14, 2009Bottled - 23/01/2009.
Pours peachy golden with very fine, quickly dispersing head. Very appealing in the glass, makes me want to take a sip. Aroma. Grapefruit, pine, lemons. Citrus and pine. Waves of it.Taste - more grapefruit and resin, mmm, a hop explosion, with lasting bitterness. Hints of turkish delight. Very fine in the mouth soft bubbles allowing full the hop flavour thru. Don’t taste the alcohol. So hoppy but so light. A gorgeous drop
VikingHammer (363), Lynnfield, Massachusetts, USA
| 4.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Apr 24, 2009 On tap at the Deep Ellum in Allston,MA. Waited a few hours to try this treat. Looked dark orange with a small white head. This was in a dark bar, so excuse me if I am wrong. Wonderful aroma of pine and citrus hops. This IPA was so good, that my awesome girlfriend(not an IPA fan) really enjoyed it. Shared with a German hop farmer(awesome guy). Great experience, awesome beer. Thanks Russian River and Deep Ellum for this great IPA.
joKing (8), New Zealand
does not count  | 4.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 20/20 |
Apr 23, 2009 This bottle is the same as the other bottles I’ve had in NZ. And I think it is unbelievable... here is why:
It has so much drinkability. I can appreciate the lovely Caramel notes in there... the peaches, passionfruit and pine on the nose: they are all so obvious. There is so much balance on the palate. The flavour follows through perfectly - there are no hidden suprises... no even with bitterness. It’s not too think, not too thin, not too sweet and not too dry.
It is perfection in a pint
Hopeye (39), Oregon, USA
| 4.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 18/20 |
Apr 22, 2009 This beer is ridiculous. If Pliny the Elder were a woman, I’d marry her and we’d never leave the bedroom. I’m talking about the beer, of course, not the Roman historian. From draft or from the bottle, once it’s in a glass you want to drink it with your nose. I haven’t actually tried that yet, but I might. I just might. I heard on a recent tour of Dogfish Head Brewery that Russian River bought their fermenter from Sam at Dogfish. I think Pliny learned from the spirit of the DFH 90 Minute how to be a hoptastic brew.
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