Thomas Creek Up the Creek Extreme IPA

Brewed by Thomas Creek Brewery
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Greenville, South Carolina USA

Courtesy of northernbres

Bottle: The aroma consists of chocolate, caramel, fruit, and aged hops. It pours a slightly hazy brownish-orange with a small off-white head. The flavor starts with moderate chocolate and caramel. The finish has some aged citrus hops and oxidation. Medium bodied mild carbonation.

Bottle at Septemberfest. Clear, dark reddish-brown with a lasting spit of head. Nose of chocolate, vanilla, caramel, toasted nut and whiskey. Flavor is Baby Ruth dunked in a little too much whiskey. Heavy sticky body is smooth. This is really nice as is, but could use some aging as it really is almost more of a BW.

Bottle at lithy’s Septemberfest. Pours dark reddish mahogany with tan head. The aroma is caramel, iced tea, grapefruit, raisin, and pine. The flavor is grapefruit, lemon, raisin, ashy chocolate, whisky, and vanilla. The finish is mostly piney hops. This crosses into barleywine territory, but it’s a surprisingly good beer nonetheless.

This was probably the surprise of the taating - Very rich and full bodied, lots of rich, malty caramel and toffee, plus vanill and maple. I would’ve thought this was a Barley Wine instead of a DIPA, but still an impressive beer. Sampled at lithy’s Septemberfest.

I first want to see with this beer the only issue that I have with it is that honestly it seems more like a hopped up english style barleywine to me. Still nice though. On the pour I am getting a dark amber color with a small amount of head but it stayed there the entire time I drank the beer. Full bodied beer. On the nose I get strong malt and a very sweet candied smell. On the palate I get slight hops with a strong sweet malt flavor. Also a bitter hop bite there as well, although not very strong. Hides the alcohol though very very well, which for me is a plus.

Pours a clear deep amber with beige head. Aroma of malts, alchohol, spice, some hops. Strange for an IPA. Similar taste, only a mild hop finish. Boozy. I would have thought this was a barley wine honestly.

Bottle shared with the guys at the Inglorious Emergency Tasting. Dark reddish brown pour with faint ring of tan head. Nose and flavor has some boozy alcohol, but not to the point of 12% Big malty booze, almost a hoppy barlywine or an imperial red more than an DIPA. Sweet caramel and syrup. Good beer.

Pours a lasting ring of beige head with a clear brown body that has ruby highlights. Aromas of caramelized malts, mellow resin and citrus hops. Flavor is sticky, caramel sweet, with resin and citrus hops. Flavor is sticky sweet and bitter.