Weyerbacher Eleven

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

22. Thanks, Colin! This held up amazingly well. Cloudy dark amber with creamy tan head. Dense rings of lace. Huge candied oranges and blue cheese nose. Without a doubt the oddest nose I’ve come across anywhere in the ipa family. Rich, creamy body on the high side of medium. Sharp carb, but not overly much of it. Candied oranges, apricots, and mangos on the mid-palate. Malt balance under all this hop madness. Orange pith/bitter apricot on the finish. Offbeat and quite powerful, but still fun to drink.

5-18-08 bottle shared with lb4lb thanks to DrJay and The_Epeeist
Super dense thick unfiltered mud with a thin ivory colored head. One of the thickest, densest beers I’ve seen. Smell is straight nail polish remover - big ammonia. Flavor is heavy cough syrup. It is super thick and has a heavy alcohol boozy flavor. Really thick and hard to swallow. Looks a little like poo water. Too much alcohol and weight for me. Unique but it is somewhat of a bipolar beer.

Bottles from DrJay and The_Epeeist. Thanks!
Pours muddy brownish with a lasting beige head. Smell is light alcohol with a muddled malty hop mix and almost a bit chalky. Taste is muddled tree bark earthy chalky hops and just a bit all over the place. Rich mouthfeel and medium carbonation. Strange beer.

Bottle courtesy Hopdog - thanks Steve! Opens with only a little pop, so worried up front this may be a bit past its prime. Pours a very dark (at least for a PA) brown with a moderate cream colored head. Aroma is very nice...there’s some citrusy hops in there, but a lot of thick, roasted malt aromas and a conglomerate of dark fruits... and some yeast as well...very ’luxurious’. Flavor is mostly malt, with some citrus hop flavors up front, and a fair bit of alcohol throughout. There is a fair share of metallic flavor throughout that I doubt was there earlier in its life. This is definitely a sipper still as of this time. Very creamy on the palate. Would have loved to tried this a year ago, but glad to have had the opportunity nowadays, as I doubt the nose on this was nearly this developed in its youth!

Bottle. Poured a cloudy orange/brown creamy yellowish head that leaves good lacing. Nice hoppy/malt mix in the aroma with a slight hint of alcohol. The flavor has great malt presents with chocolate and caramel standing out. Hoppy background with a hint of spices. Light alcohol in the flavor also. Fully body, sticky yet smooth, warming, and light bitterness. (Rating from June ’07)

bottle. hazy copper, woody color pour with huge froth bomb of a head. beautiful lacing from start to finish. huge aroma of perfume hops, apricot, pulpy citrus, rich carmel and burnt sugars. Big! nutty, musky wood. This might be where the hop shortage started. The malting is also enormous and unique. caramel, coffee, burnt. bitter hops give way to malts but outlast malts into finish. dry citrus in the end. Large in every sip. Interesting beer.

I really didn’t know what to make of this. I was left with an impression that it was really, really different, and not in a bad way, but also not in an exceptional one. This beer is murky and bitter in a weird way that is not harsh (as advertised) but I kind of miss some of this hop harshness; that is sort of essential component of bitter. However, I will say that this malt (& hop) bomb is intensely smooth and imparts a unique flavor. Good, I just don’t know quite what to make of it. It was very murky - like there was a lot of sediment suspended all the way through it. Aroma is very earthy; most beers have this as implied; here earthy is very pronounced. There is a ton of malt and hops in the flavor, although the hop flavor is muted - it is bitter yet smooth like no other hoppy beer I’ve had. Mouthfeel is exceptionally smooth. Flyer was kind enough to split this with me...no idea where he got it from.

Pours cloudy, orange/brown, with a thin, fine, white head. Aroma is strongly hoppy with an almost nutty or olive quality to it. Some fruitiness there. Full mouth feel with a strong bitterness. Almost a salty quality. It’s almost like eating an acorn. A bit much.