 lemasney (398), Trenton, New Jersey, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Apr 16, 2008 Heavy malt flavor of cereal, nuts, and caramel. Heavy hebal hoppy flavor of resin and grapefruit. Moderately yeasty. Plum, charcoal, honey, and alcohol flavors throughout. Very malty and hoppy. Frothy head is light brown, excellent, and mostly diminishing. Clear medium, amber orange body. Lightly sweet. Moderately acidic. Heavily bitter. Long duration. Full body, was dry, creamy, and lively carbonation. Nice long finish. A great beer.
changeup45 (799), Orlando, Florida, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 15/20 |
Apr 12, 2008 Updated: Aug 1, 2008This pours a bright darker shade of orange with some head and a bit of lacing hanging around throughout the beer. Sweet and fruity hopped aroma but it isn’t all that powerful. The flavor consists of a crisp hoppy grapefruit bite, a bit sweet and a mild bitter aftertaste. The hops don’t scream Imperial IPA to me. More like a solid IPA and certainly doesn’t seem like there’s 10% abv in here. It must be well hidden!
blklab2007 (975), Connecticut, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Apr 5, 2008 bottle poured a light amber with good carbonation and a thick two finger head. aroma has sweet candy hops, caramel malt, citrus peel, and grapefruit. mouth feel is medium full with frothy carbonation. flavor is spicy fruit hops colliding with a heavy dose of malt that stands up to the bite. bitterness creeps in leaving a finish of hop resin and thickness that lingers on for a while. definitely a chewy malted version of the style that i would never have thought was 10.6% abv.
Cruzan59 (197), Lititz, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Apr 4, 2008 On tap at the brewery...pours amber in color with a white head...scents of floral, citrus...orange-grapefruit in the flavor nice hoppy bitterness...alcohol well hidden...quite enjoyable.
bag (103), Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Mar 28, 2008 From bottle... poured cloudy and pale gold. Disappointingly weak aroma. Flavor was OK... somewhat overwhelmingly grapefruit. Somewhat sticky palate. Not too impressed. Probably wouldn’t get again.
Storm (2685), Amager, Denmark
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Mar 23, 2008 12 fl oz. Tasted in comparisson with other double IPAs. Very light clear amber colour with a little white head. Not much aroma for a IIPA. Little aroma of perfume from the hops and hints of caramel. Nice, sweet, bitter flavour with notes of caramel, malt and hops. Very nice taste and ends with a nice inner warm feeling from the alcohol.
jlf278 (255), Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Mar 16, 2008 12 oz. pours a nice deep gold with good head. Flavor is grapefruit and other typical double ipa flavors, but with a nice fungal earthiness. Great palate, nice and full and rounded. Aroma was of orange and pine, could have been stronger. Overall, great, but shy of any truly outstanding characteristic.
WISEGUY572 (1246), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Mar 15, 2008 Classic American double IPA; would have seemed knock my socks off great a couple of years ago and still very enjoyable. More orange and pine than a Stone grapefruit and mint sort of hoppy. More cloudy orange than clear pale. Sweet malts, caramel, orange, surprising notes of apricot in the nose, and long bitter finish. Some serious alcohol, but well hidden.
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