SKA Decadent Imperial IPA

Brewed by SKA Brewing
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Durango, Colorado USA

22oz bottle shared by Slob. Pour was orange in color, very nice foamy off-white head, excellent lacing, so nice looking. Wow, is this the first SKA to win me over? Nope, aroma goes caramel, pine, citrus, with significant sloppy fruitiness. The flavor is caramel, fruity, some citrus, something also that just nagged at my taste buds (more than just the caramel-ness!). Mouthfeel is moderate in body, nothing special or bad there. Why wax these bottles when the beer isn’t high end? SKA is a sub-mediocre brewer. Thanks, Bert, for sharing and hangin’!

Pours a medium sized tan head with good retention and a solid bit of lace. Color is deep amber and is fairly clear. Nose is piney, juicey but more malty than expected. Body is med/full, lightly oily. Medium sweet crystal malts backed by an under dosed bit of piney hop flavors, lightly fruity with some grainy malt notes as well. 10% ABV.? Really? Finish i sorta sweet, lightly fruity. Not a bad brew just a fairly tame IIPA. Props to FlacoAlto and someone else, dont remember who, i apologize, for hooking me up with this brew.

650 mL. Clear copper-burnt orange with a large creamy and lasting head. Typical evergreen-grapefruit nose; but less pointed than most DIPAs. Flavor is smooth resin with some citrus cream pie on front, becoming more lemon and herb-grass bitter at the end and in the aftertaste. Palate is medium-bodied, smooth and watery enough on the end to make this dangerously drinkable. The finish falls off a bit to Saaz-like hops, which I don’t like so much, but otherwise a fine beer.

Hazy amber, moderate head with decent lacing and retention. Aroma is grapefruit, citrus, caramel, hint of wood. Medium to full body, watery mouthfeel with an alcoholic and watery finish. Not much for hop flavor. Moderate bitterness. Not very enjoyable.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a small sized head of foamy finely sized tan colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a very hazy typically carbonated dark orange brown colored body. The strong aroma was hoppy and caramel malt. The mouth feel was very tingly at the start and at the finish with a strong hoppy aftertaste. The strong flavor contained notes of piney biting hops and a large amount of caramel. Delicious and one I would certainly buy again.

Reddish orange color with little to no head. Taste is overwhelmingly metallic. Aroma is slight pine and caramel. Very nice aromas. The taste is a little one dimensional with some slight sweetness on the fininsh. Medium bodied and smooth once you get past the metallic flavors.

Poured from a 22oz bottle into a shaker. This beer poured a hazy, orange color with a minimal beige head that quickly faded down to a thin layer. Some sticky lacing was left behind. The aroma was made up of grapefruit and caramel. The flavor was faint citus along with some caramel and toffee. It seemed closer to a hoppy barley wine than a double IPA. The beer was a bit dry and lightly bitter. The mouthfeel was full-bodied and resiny. This was a decent double IPA.

A decent IIPa. Pours orange with a white head. Sweet hoppy character with hints of citrus and pine. Aspires to be Dreadnaught but doesn’t really get there.