Weyerbacher Eleven

From the Bottle at Tom’s Ultimate Glasgow Tasting, Blackfriars 01/12/2007 Strong hop aroma. Golden coloured and slightly hazy in appearance. Hoppy with a crisp and bitter lasting finish.

12 oz bottle served in a tulip glass. Pour is a very murky brown, like a flowing river after a thunderstorm, with enough floaties to make the comparison quite accurate. Nose is caramel, toffee, earth, and very faint hops. I’ve never drank an aged IPA (3 years old) but I am guessing the lack of hop in the aroma means it is past its prime. Taste is hop bitter, but not much of the other interesting varieties that usually accompany the hop, earth, caramel, and mellowed booze. This is a pretty tasty brew. It’s a shame I cannot try a fresh bottle to enjoy it at its best.

Bottle from Capones Pours a cloudy light brown with a light tan head has some floaters and particles in it. The head leaves quickly. Has a good aroma of sweet malts and good crisp hops. Has a good carbonation. The mouthfeel is decent. The flavor is balance well. Not real hoppy but not too sweet. The alcohol is well hidden. Has a full body. The finish is good and it has a lasting aftertaste. It is good but definately strong.

12oz bonus from adrian910ss. Thanks a lot for this one man! Pours a swampy reddish brown color with a big beige head that left a ton of lacing. Nose was bursting with pineapple then gave way to sweet caramel and toffee. Flavor held strong hop bitterness balanced with a wall of sweet malts. A very underrated brew in my opinion.

notes from august of last year at kuhnhenns. poured a cloudy orange with a white head. aroma, hops, sulfer, pine , grapefruit, alcohol. flavor grapefruit, sweet alcohol, bitterness dry.

Bomber. Pretty much what you’d expect from a two-year old IIPA: this is past its prime. Pours nearly clear copper with a lacy off-white head. Some white grape and cardboardy toffee in the aroma. Full body and moderate carbonation. Sweet toffee and citrus taste with some pine an earthy bitterness on the finish. Probably should have let this one go for a couple more years and served it as an American barleywine.

Pours fiery amber, nice beige head. Nose is on its last legs, some faint malt and the remnants of hop still hanging on, but it’s all sugary syrup and alcohol now, very toxic stuff. Flavor is even closer to the grave, just some bitter leaf notes, tea, minor chocolate actually, and large alcohol. Mouth is a little thin, but there’s still some carbonation left. Overall pretty weak, but given that this is a 2+ yr old IIPA, I think it would have been pretty good when fresh. It’s as good as the currently fresh Founders IPAs.

old old bottle I spotted at the back of my cellar. 12oz, I thought this was long overdue to be opened. Drank at cellar temp because I’m lazy right now. Spurted too, so there you go. Pours dark orange with 1 finger tan head. Nose is sweet and dead dead dead. Taste is pretty much exactly what tye says, pine sol, blech, blech blech, nasty.