Weyerbacher Eleven

Formerly brewed at Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

Bottle. Hazy orange coloured with an off white head. Aroma of caramel, dried fruits, hops and pine needles. Flavour of dried fruits, caramel, hops and pine needles.

Bottled. Orange coloured. Unclear. Dense light brown head. Sweets, herbs, pine and fresh fruits in the nose. Flavour of light alcohol, flowers and herbs. Quite citric. Fruits notable. Meidum bodied. Dry. Is bitter and quite acidic in the end. Thanks to Sliffy for sending this.

Hazy orange/amber color with a big thick beige head and heavy lacing. Aroma and flavor of hops and sweet malts. The alcohol is pretty well hidden. The finish is very dry and bitter.

Bottled. Hazy amber coloured. Sweet aroma of candy, sweet fruits, toffee and some yeast. Sweet hoppy flavour with many earthy notes like potatoes, English hops and roots. Chewy bitter finish. Medium to full bodied. I didnt really know much about Phoenix hops before I tasted this beer, but it really tastes very English with all the earthy notes and yet very bitter in the American way due to the high alpha acid. Very interesting, but not really a hop variety to brew a single hop brew with.

Quite hazy orange amber color, with a diminished beige head that leaves heavy lace. This really has an English barley wine aroma. Light pine and grapefruit stowed in a hopsack. Mild scone and alcohol in the backdrop. You can tell this is a hot one from the start. Heavy caramel flavors are attacked by pine needles and biting citrus. Alcohol flares up in the finish and linger. Saying not to look for the pine and grapefruit seems to be off, as it looks like all are finding it without looking. A nice return to the malt in the linger that seems to be toasting under the flames of the alcohol burn. Having only had heartburn twice in my life this is as near to it as you can get. There is also a grainy linger that has a DMS factor. Give this a year or two and you may have a very fine barley wine. Thanks Jeff.

this berr is good. It’s bitter, but I don’t see the balance, I should say I don’t taste it. Bu the 11. is .....well, just plaind crazy. It definately earned it’s ’triple’ label. good, but not great

Poured an effervescent orangeish amber with a large fizzy/frothy white head. Aroma of bitter grapefruit, orange and pine, a bit of cinnamon and clove upon further inspection with a bit of honey wheat bread. Nice aroma overall... would get higher points if stronger. Taste is quite unusual... less distinguishable hop flavors, and more of a difficult-to-interpret mish-mash conglomorate of bizarre flavors... some grass, herbs, very earthy... and by earthy I mean fresh brown dirt. Taste becomes more alcohol based and finishes metallic and burnt, like licking an ashtray. There’s a sweetness to the flavor that would normally be welcomed, but without the complex hop flavors to back it up, seems really out of place. The bitterness here is actually a bit of a problem. With no hop flavor to back it up, the bitterness really stands out... it starts off merely as an accompanyment to the alcohol warmth, but soon becomes an overpowering mess. It lingers long in the finish, coating your palate. It’s an astringent bitterness reminiscent more to a badly made cheap whiskey than craft beer. So bottom line: poor hop flavor in this overdone beer leaves the enthusiast with nothing but sweetness, ash, and uncomfortable bitterness. I find it ironic that Weyerbacher released this shortly after the double simcoe, another single hop variety double IPA that was well made and very delicious. It’s akin to Beethoven succeeding his fifth symphony with a recital consisting of him banging his head on the piano for ten minutes. Lesson learned: if you’re going to do a single hop variety double IPA, make it a GOOD hop variety. This one didn’t cut it.

bottle - Cloudy apricot in color with a nice size head that quickly dissapated. Aroma is an earthy dried fruit with a slight sweetness. This one will really shock you if you read the words ’Triple India Pale Ale’ on the label. While there are plenty of hops in this beer it doesn’t bite like some high hop ales can, sorry hop heads. The malt balance and the almost syrupy palate make it go down very smooth. The bitterness from the hops come through only at the end. One would never think this to be 11.7 ABV! This is a beer to take your time with...explore and enjoy! It’s really different.