Weyerbacher Eleven

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

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.

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.

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.

12oz bottle, courtesy of The_Epeeist, thanks Chris. Murky orange/amber pour with a white head. Kind of a sour wet cardboard aroma. Same flavor as the smell, different and kind of sweet. A little past it’s prime, but still not bad.

22 oz bottle, consumed 10/18/2008. Pours a hazy orange color with a small white head. aroma is mild hops, citrus, and malts. Body was extremely smooth, almost creamy, no describable heavy alcohol taste as the alcohol appears to be masked quite well.

Malt Bomb USA! Tripple IPA sounded good, but this one grew up on shit st. Malt and nasty hops were all I got, and then the drain received the rest.

Courtesy of lb4lb. Pours hazy orange-brown with thin off white head. The aroma is a bit different and gives forth mild amounts of muted pine hops, chewy sticky malts and alcohol heat. From time to time I get a whiff of cherry, prune and plum like fruity esters. The aroma comes across too light for the style. The taste seems smooth and mellow as a result of a few years on the shelf. I imagine it must have been pretty punchy while fresh. But now I get muted rolled over pine hops that still have some bitterness left along with brown sugar sweetness and some chewy malts. By midway cherry and plum hard candy surface along with small amounts of alcohol and a faint sense of pepper. Toward the finish it takes on an almost grainy to nutty maltiness as the pine hop bitterness builds to a tepid level. Although mellowed with age it still has bold flavors creating a sipper beer like experience. I think I’ll nurse this for a while. I say, YUM!

12oz bottle from July 2006. Almost 2 years old. Pour is a candy-apple red. The head is a thin layer of white cream. I can smell it from several feet away. Its strong and unpleasant. When I stick my nose in the glass, the smell isn’t much better. Sticky acidic hops that almost smell rotten. After the first sip I knew this is a drainpour. I was afraid to drink it fresh, buts still gross.