 WeeHeavySD (2980), San Diego (Hillcrest), California, USA
| 2.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 3/10 | 1/5 | 9/20 |
Feb 18, 2009 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.
tytoanderso (1387), St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
| 2.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 4/10 | 2/5 | 9/20 |
Feb 18, 2009 12oz bottle. Aroma of Pine-Sol, and other solvents. Slightly resiny. Assloads of sweet malt. Poundcake. Earthy, wet leaf pile and tons of alcohol. Smells like Off bug repellent. Pours a thick, hazed, dark orange with a resilient, frothy off white head. This is no longer an IIPA. It’s now a thick, cloying, boozy ASA. Fat, chewy body. Lots of alcohol. Tons of residual sugar sweetness. Just a shade of oily high-alpha hops. Good lord... It’s like drinking floor cleaner. Fusel alcohol... Chewy malt. Slick and oily mouth feel. Ugh... never had this one fresh but time certainly didn’t treat this one well. Thanks anyway Ed!
Glouglouburp (2839), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
| 3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Feb 11, 2009 In short: An over-the-top sugary, alcoholised, hoppy and ultimately not-cohesive boosted IPA.
How: Bottle (22oz I think). Drank some months ago (backlog)
The look: Cloudy orange body topped by a small white head
In long: Nose is floral and foresty with some alcohol fumes. Taste is rather sweet but the body lacks corpulence, this is more sugary thin caramel than corpulent round caramel. Alcohol is apparent but still feels less than the unreasonable 11.7%. A little rhubarb annoyed me. A dirtiness sensation. Unexpectedly drinkable despite its size but overall it just felt like a bunch of extreme flavours thrown at me. It’s retired now and with so many superior extreme American IPAs to chose from its disappearance has gone as unnoticed as the departure of a fat chick from a wild spring break party.
checkmatei1 (630), Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, USA
| 2.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 4/5 | 3/10 | 2/5 | 8/20 |
Jan 8, 2009 Bottle: Poured an orange with not much head. The aroma was somewhat oxidized. The flavor was overpowering. Way too malty, unbalanced and way too much alcohol feel. Overall, age has not been kind to this one as it found its way down the drain. It gets an E for effort in my book since it was probably good at one point.
faroeviking (6067), BjórtjóðveldiðBjórheimBjórsins, Faroe Islands
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Dec 9, 2008 Botella. Hazy orange colour with a good steady white head leaving a good lacing. Sweet and hoppy aroma. Very good mouthfeel. The flavour is dry and quite hoppy with alcohol, malt and quite sweet. Hoppy sweet alco finish. Good but the alochol is too dominent.
Pinball (2859), Allerød, Denmark
| 2.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 8/20 |
Dec 6, 2008 thanks ungstrup for sharing a retired beer i never tasted.
appears amber, small white head. sourish aleish caramellish aroma. flavor is barley wineish, subdued hops, tons of alc. i found it too alcoholic.
yespr (12174), Copenhagen O, Denmark
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 5, 2008 12 fl oz bottle, courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours hazy orange with a slowly diminishing white head. Dry wooden, vague oxidised aroma. Dark caramel malty note. Sweet malty, dense hoppy and slight wooden flavour following this. Smooth mix between sweet caramelish malt and bitter hoppy finish. Nice one.
Slipstream (760), USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 29, 2008 A big thanks to Adrian for this, and for several other beers I am about to rate! Rust colored pour with light froth. Strong nose-filling aroma - hops, sweetness, strong alcohol. The flavor begins sweet and grainy, then ends in juicy, grapefruity, bitter Phoenix hops. Rich and powerful with alcohol warmth and hop tingle spreading along the palate. There are tastes of prunes and whiskey in there too. This is one of the more enjoyable extreme beers I have come across - definitely an imperial IPA, but still sweet and balanced. I like Weyerbacher’s anniversary ale concept too. Superior.
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