Russian River Pliny the Elder

Brewed by Russian River Brewing
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Santa Rosa, California USA

This is a perfect DIPA. Perfect! The pour produces a slick, clear gold with a minimal head. The aroma is pops with fresh floral and citric notes, slight booze, butterscotch, and bready malts. The flavour is equally, if not more impressive. Notes of spruce, grassy dry hops, and slight leather. The body is perfectly carbonated, sharp but not overpowering, and the finish is quite dry and long. Hooray beer! Hooray Russian River!

Big thanks to mashmaster for this one. The bottle looks good, the beer in the glass also. Starts very hoppy and strong, intense grasy notes. Also quite woody-earthy, but still well balanced. Intense finish, complex hoppy, still dry. Wonderful!

Bottle from South Bay Drugs. Pours a beautiful orange-gold color with a big rocky off-white head that craters and leaves some uneven lace. I just tried a Blind Pig this past weekend and never thought the aroma could be beaten; well, this equals it. Floral hops lead the charge, with nice orange and grapefruit citrus, mixed fruits, pine, sweet malts, and a bouquet of flowers. The flavor is still outstanding, but nothing could live up to that nose. Sweet caramel malts, grapefruit, bitter hops, pine, and floral notes. This isn’t a hop bomb and the 8% ABV is muted and just the perfect amount. Light-medium bodied, with average carbonation. Dry and resinous. A dry, bitter, semi-sweet finish. The Blind Pig and now this in just a few days- Russian River knows how to brew an IPA, and how to leave me overwhelmed.

On tap at Capone’s. Pours a nice golden color with a little white head. Has the smell of bananas and pine. Has a great piney citrus taste and is very well balanced. One of the best DIPAs no doubt. To bad isn’t more redly available.

pint size bottle. citrus smells, very refreshing, does not taste like a double. no wonder it is sought after as one of the best double ipa’s.

From bottle : Pours a hazy, carbonated golden color with a finger of bubbley head. Thick lacing. Pine hops jump from the glass, with some citrus also noted. Taste is bitter and abrasive at first, mellows out toward the end but the bitter never stops, all the way into the aftertaste it still has that bitter bite. Has a pretty light body, with a slick feel in the mouth. Quite good, but i dont think it lived up to the hype....for me atleast.

Bottle at Chris_o’s "smash Kook’s granny tasting". Alround rating: Great citrusy grapefruit and lychee nose, balanced in a flavour profile manner, but has a great bitterness yet a body to hold it together. Excellent IPA.

Clear golden brown beneath a frothy white head. Amazing hop aroma, a blast of citrus and pine. Great balance, but the hop flavors really take over. Tons of juicy hop flavor pine, spruce and grapefruit zest. Finishes dry with some lingering lemon notes.