 durhambeer (1206), Durham, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 17/20 |
Sep 4, 2009 In debt to JCB for sharing this beaut. Wow. Pours hazy light orange/amber with small white head. Big piney resiny nose but with tons of tasty fruit and citrus in the hop profile as well. Mango notes as well, and perhaps some papaya. Not too sweet, but decent enough malt. Really damn good.
popery (165), San Francisco, California, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Sep 4, 2009 Review #400. Excellent DIPA with a huge candy tangerine bitter hop flavor. This beer pours a very nice medium amber with a good head and lots of lacing. The aroma is lushly hoppy. It’s a beautiful jumble of sweet citrus, wildflowers and just a touch of pine. This is a very hoppy beer. It’s not the very best DIPA that I’ve smelled or tasted, but it’s probably top five and definitely top ten. Anyway, the flavor is relatively sweet with malt to express the delicate hop flavors. The malt lends a clean caramel presence. The hops are bitter but mostly flavorful. It’s an explosion of sweet citric flavors. The alcohol is easily hidden by the hops. It’s an excellent beer. I’m very happy to see Valley beers on store shelves in San Francisco.
gunhaver (1025), Tampa, Florida, USA
| 4.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 19/20 |
Sep 3, 2009 Bottle, courtesy Ibrew2or3. Copper pour, lively, frothy white head and lacing. Nose is massive amounts of hops, citrus and pine. Bitter, some sweet malts. Flavor is big on hops, very bitter, tropical, with some vanilla notes. Excellent beer, very yum and plenty of unique notes to make this not just another double IPA.
TampaBrew (805), Tampa, Florida, USA
| 4.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 19/20 |
Sep 3, 2009 Pours deep yellow/orange. Nose is HUGE grapefruit, oranges, lemons, toffee, perfumes of fresh citrus and pine. Flavor is loads of bitter citrus, grapefruit, pine forest, lemons, orange peels, toffee, sweet sugar and hot booze. One of the best if not the best IIPA I have ever had.
joet (1706), Fulton, California, USA
| 4.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 18/20 |
Sep 3, 2009 Wow. I had this on tap for the first time and it’s obviously much more awesome than I’ve ever had bottled. Fresh, vivid and spectacular - it’s bushy, citric, bits of lemon and grapefruit without pepper or dustiness. Yes the hop profile is very expansive. Texture is not sticky and it isn’t loaded down with unfermented sugar or tasting overly sweet. Surprisingly drinkable despite it’s heft.
ucusty (1885), Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Sep 3, 2009 Thanks to JCB for sharing! HAzy amber pour with a fluffy off white head. Spruce aroma. Resinous hop flavor with notable hints of citrus, floral, grapefruit rind, and pine with a nice malty back bone. It doesn’t get much better than this !
dmschefke (371), Eastpointe, Michigan, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Sep 2, 2009 Pours a nice dark cloudy amber orange with thick off-white head, lots of lacing. Aroma is as advertised, lots of hops, the whole slew of them, can’t figure out a hop profile that isn’t in it. Balanced by malt is a gross overstatement. Other aromas, pine, strong citrus, slightly too much floral, slight fruity notes, lots of spice and herbs. Flavor matches well and makes for a very pleasing DIPA.
JCB (1754), Durham, North Carolina, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 17/20 |
Sep 1, 2009 22oz bottle from wavers1 - thanks, Baker! Dayum, but this is a delicious DIPA. Cloudy amber pour, with enough sediment to impress and enough carbonation/head to entice. Big dank aroma of piney hops with some tropical fruits in there. Mouthfeel is fairly full, not quite as smooth/creamy as I like for the style (Dorado is kind of my measuring stick), but quite nice. Flavor is really delicious, with an initial grapefruity sting followed by the slow introduction of levels of complexity - fruit, resin, weed. Really terrific beer.
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