 JorisPPattyn (5182), Antwerpen, Belgium
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 30, 2006 Bright red-orange with small to medium orangey head. Beautiful hops nose, cookies, orange marmalade, orange flowers, orange preserve, and a fresh greenery aroma - young stinging nettles? Very bitter orange marmalade flavour, but with a lot of hidden malts. There’s a just-not-sweet taste that has a lot of lytchee flavour (actually identified by my 8-year old son!); lemonbalm too, definitely! This is really great - I discover more levels with every sip. Medium to full-bodied, oily, slick. Slight, not really overpowering alcoholwarming. Easily one of the best double IPA’s I’ve ever tried! Why can’t all American brewers strive for this kind of balance? Big, big thanks to J&D!
Assurbanipaul (40), Fort Worth, Texas, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Oct 25, 2006 Pours a ruddy light amber, opaque with a thin foamy head. Aroma is bright a juicy hops, a little bit of caramel and mandarin orange.
Taste is very, very bitter hops. Some light pale malts as a base, a touch of toast, but mostly a deep, rich, robust hops. Some orange rind, light spiciness, more bitterness and a light alcohol heat (but no alcohol flavors). About halfway through the glass, a very slight malty sweetness comes through, just a hint on the aftertaste.
Mouthfeel is medium, not real heavy but a little flat with a very fine carbonation. Clean and bitter but not puckeringly so. Overall, this one would not be out of place next to any SoCal hop bomb. I would buy this regularly if it were a full-time product. Best from SA so far.
SudsMcDuff (1694), was CapeTown,SA-now Houston, Texas, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Oct 4, 2006 very nice happy-sweet hoppy smell....good lookin lacin!...tan brown rustic colour...very drinkable and smooth..this is 9.5???..wow...i like it...not as full in the mouth department for an imperial but satisfying!...lots of great flavours hidden in this one...not over done like some ipa/iipa’s..!!...complex and delicous!....leaves such a nice bitter sweet taste on the lips!!!
ThomasE (5178), Copenhagen, Denmark
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jan 16, 2007 Cloudy orange colour with a white head. Malty, light caramel sweet aroma with a nice hoppy fruity note. Hoppy fruity flavor with a solid pine bitter note and a dry finish.
RollinHard (761), Fort Worth, Texas, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Oct 22, 2006 Updated: Dec 12, 2007Pours a nice cloudy burnt orange with a substantial, but temporary head. Aroma has all kinds of things working for it: piny and fresh veggie hops, sourdough bread, and sweet quality I couldn’t quite place. Flavor is hops, right away, but then some wheaty and caramel flavors abound. Everso slightly gritty mouthfeel. Sometimes there was a salty taste too. Finish is surprisingly woody, which lends to a piny hop taste, and finally a leafy grass quality. Lasts ages. Not a thick beer either, certainly not cloying. I see why people would want to age this or think it’s hot. I agree, but apparantly I like it that way. This double IPA held my interest more than other higher rated ones. Yay for Texas.
NYHarvey (2154), New York, New York, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Apr 17, 2007 I think Walt gave sent me this. I think this because it is a beer from Texas and Walt was the last person from Texas I did a trade with and also because the package this beer came in, from Texas, had nude pictures of Walt in intimate poses with numerous goats, donkeys and high caliber fire arms and while I assume many people are probably in possession of such picture, only Walt would actually send them out. SO... thanks, Walt.
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The aroma is quite fruity (like Walt in those pics) and malty and not at all the hop bomb you expect from a DIPA. It’s got apple, pear, caramel, citrus and apricot notes and even a healthy dose of toffee. I rather enjoy the aroma. The body is a murky dull orange and the head never gets itself together long enough to be much. The fore is like the last bit of a well worn down butterscotch/caramel hard candy. It’s quite thick and careml/toffee/butterscotch tasting. Fairly dry, but some residual sweetness remains. It’s got some bready notes to it and while it is obviously hopped all to hell the malt roars to the fore in this one. More my kind of DIPA and I very much enjoyed it.
joergen (8617), Frederiksberg, Denmark
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jan 15, 2007 Bottle.
Hazy orange coloured with an off white head.
Sweet aroma of malts, fruits, caramel and hops.
Flavour of fruits, caramel, hops and pine needles.
JCapriotti (1378), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Jul 3, 2007 Clear copper. Creamy off-white small head. Old, aged hops tells me it was pretty hoppy when it was fresh. They sit on a moderately sweet caramel body with some fruit thrown in... with the sweetness probably coming through by the hops fading.
Flavor has the same qualities as the aroma, with the hops being spicer and some alcohol showing up. Pretty good overall. I dig the mellowed hops.
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