Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA

Brewed by Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

Bottle. Very overpowering aroma of hops and citrus. Poured an amber color with small head. The sides of the glass was covered in a sticky white head that remained even after the glass was empty. I enjoyed this and wish I had scored a few more bottles.

Bottle, 22oz. (RBNAG 07) At the moment I poured it and inhaled the piney, fruity and malty-sweetish aroma, I knew it deserved it’s score. It is one of those delicious too-much-of-everything beers so few manage to make really good. It has a unclear, golden-orange body with a beige head, and the flavor has the same malty sweetness, borderlining beef-stock that the aroma has. Of course there’s also lots of hops, giving a piney, citrusy and fruity flavor, and those lasts all the way to the next sip. So do the sweetness as well. A full-bodied beer I will be happy to have again. Great thanks to the great trader the_epeeist for providing the bottle. (071103)

Bottle. Pours amber with an off white head that lasts. Aroma is hops and grapefruit. Flavor is sugary sweet hop - grapefruit profile. Bitter at the end, not over the top, but you get used to it quickly.

22 oz bomber. Maybe I got a bad bottle. Maybe it was old. I just don’t think it was nearly as good as other double IPAs I’ve had in the 99th Percentile. The aroma was typical (although light), as was the flavor, for a DIPA. I was disappointed not to be overwhelmed by Simcoe, however. I was looking for more grapefruit and pine, but it just wasn’t there. The beer was plenty bitter to offset the malty sweetness, but I was expecting more of the trademark Simcoe qualities.

A deep, bright copper colour is topped with a thick, rocky and frothed head. The sides of the glass are coated with remnants of the sticky off-white head. The nose is bright and perfumey with floral citrus notes. There is also plenty of malt in the nose with just a pinch of apple and mango on the tail end. The body is sticky with malt, sweet and full. There is a hint of apple behind an overwhelming hop bitterness that lingers all the way to the (bitter) end. All in all, I thought this IPA or imperial IPA or whatever it is that these American breweries all seem to be brewing, was too up front and not modest or humble at all. Way too in your face. I don’t think that I could drink more than one in a sitting. I liked Hops Infusion, I couldn’t handle this.

Pours pure bronze with a thick head that sticks around permanent lacing. Looks awesome. The smell smacks me like a kinky hot broad and I love it. Spice, pine and POWERFUL fresh hops. More is there but I can’t get over how great the hops smell leaving me to focus on it. Tastes mildly sweet, the perfect amount. Hops are all over the place that are pleasantly bitter and dry. I’m beginning to realize what a great and true IPA tastes like. Not an abundance of flavors, some citrus but delicious as it is. I love this beer and will definitely put it in the starting lineup.

I really liked this beer. It was very floral with a touch of unripe bananas and pears. It never really struck me as a double IPA, which can seem nice beacsue the alcohol never hits hard at all as it is a subtle and smooth IIPA, but alt imens it doesn’t provide the flavor boom that a proper IIPA like Hercules or Dreadnaught does. Overall a fantastic beer, IPA or IIPA, I will buy this again.

From a bottle. Pours the classic IPA amber color with a small white head. First wiff of this brew and you know ur in for some taste bud thrashing hops. Notes of pine and citrus. Taste is similiar to the aroma..piney, citrusy, oily hops. Not overy thick but it has some body to it. Great Double IPA. Great brew to abuse your tastebuds with.