Speakeasy Double Daddy IPA

Brewed by Speakeasy Ales and Lagers
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
San Francisco, California USA

12 oz bottle. Pours a dark straw color. Aroma of grapefruit and caramal malt. Flavor is similiar with a oily mouthfeel. Nice bitterness and the alcohol is slightly noticeable. I really enjoyed this 2IPA.

Pours a light golden color with no head. Smell is skunky, powerful hops. Taste is a bit thin, but with good hop bite and astringency. Mouthfeel is a bit light and a tad bit cloying. Decent brew, but there are a lot better.

Has this on draught a while back and it was a complete 180 from the bottle I drank way back. This is really the kind of IIPA I like. Hop dominated aroma. Sweatsocks, grapefruit, and pine. Flavor is piney and fresh with grapefruit and some fruit punch. Definitley more hoppy than malty. First rating: This was probably one of my least favorite IIPA’s. Had a nice balanced hop and malt aroma. Poured a copperish brown. Flavor was mostly sweet malt a little hops peak in, but is definitley dominated by the sweetness. Very heavy. Residual sugars and some dry hoppiness linger. I can appreciate that this is a nice beer, but it was too sweet for my liking.

2009-08-24, 8-4-8-4-16=40
Cloudy light amber color. The aroma is initially very fruity, then it becomes more sweaty, and mature. Good body, malt and toffee flavor, with respectable sweetness; strong bitterness, with good fruity touch (bitter oranges and dried pineapple). Powerful,

2007-06-05, 7-4-7-3-14=35
Hazy copper color; thin head. The aroma is good and hoppy (resins and light fruits), but it gets lighter quickly. The mouthfeel is not too thick, some malt flavor, bold bitterness, quite good but not exceptional (not enough malt, sweetness, fruitness…).

Clear bright amber color with nice foamy off white head. Aromas of hops, citrus, carmel and malt. Flavors arethe same as the aroma, no surprises here. Maltiness gives it a very full mouthfeel. Sweet and highly drinkable, I suspect this would creap up on you when you least expect it. As it warmed, slightly more bitter notes in the hops were present but still quite plesant. I’d definitely go there again!

a nice copper/light amber color and a good head a slightly off white color. The Aroma is great, a nice citrusy hop aroma nice hints of tart pineapple and grapefruit and a little bit of a carmel-malt scent. It is a little too carbonated for my tastes in this catagory. The flavor is great nice citrusy hop flavor with a hint of carmel and toffee from the malt. I thought it was a little thin on body but the flavor is good. This is a good starter for those looking to try DIPAs.I have haddthis on tap and in a bottle. It is very good on tap if you can find it.

Bottle: Pours golden in color with a decent white head. Smell is of a bit of lemon and grassy notes. Taste is pretty silky feeling, with a nice earthy feel. I notice that pine feel, with just a hint of lemon in the mix. Carbonation feels just a bit high on this one.

In the bottle from Whole Foods SF 4th St location in SF. Orange/amber yellow in color with a medium white head. Mild butterscotch aroma with a strong blast of citrus-like hops. The flavor is sweet. Thick palate has orange candy without the intense chocolate that oftentimes follows. Poor lacing. Somewhat disappointing in that it fails to have a unique or interesting zinger in the flavor department.