Founders Double Trouble IPA

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Bottle Pours a cloudy yellow gold with a thin white head which leaves quickly. Leaves spotty lacing rings. Aroma is orange citrus with malt undertones. I get pine and caramel. Has a good carbonation. The flavor is excellent. Sharply bitter leading up to a good swift hoppy ending. Has a medium body, with an oily texture. Has a good strong finish. The aftertaste is a dousy real good and lingering. This is real good, I love it.

Bottled. 3 Små Rum. Deep golden colour with low foam. Tea, almond paste and honey in aroma. The tea probably from Warrior or Columbus hops. Really malty backbone, and the hops stand back slightly. Almonds, yet with a juicy mouthfeel but the honey is there. Not the cleanest 2IPA. The bitterness is pretty subtle for the style. Residual sugars on a perfect level. Might have been a semi-old bottle.

355 ml bottle. From København, Denmark.
Hazy orange/golden colour with tiny white head. Hoppy and fruity aroma with some spices. Hard massive hoppy flavour with grapefruit, resin, alcohol and fruits. Bitter aftertaste, quite short though. Alcohol strength quite recognisable. Not fresh but oppressive.

I laughed when I first smelled this beer. I had to pass it around to two other people to make sure I wasn’t just imagining things, but this beer smelled like straight marijuana. Although that particular smell did dissipate as I drank more, it was still funny. The taste was really good with grapefruit notes as the most notable taste. Definite hop kick and a smooth, bitter finish. Great beer

Golden, orange colored brew. Hoppy aroma. Very nice balanced hoppy brew. Malty and raisins too. Creamy and smooth.

12oz bottle poured into a trappist glass produced a small, off-white head with orange translucent body. Aroma and taste of apples and spices with a mild hoppy finish. Very nice IPA.

12 oz bottle served in a tulip. Pour was a cloudy golden yellow with 1/2 a finger of off white head. Nose was doughy malt, caramel, a touch of grape fruit, and an overpowering smack of bitter hops. Taste is bitter hops, caramel, malt and grape fruit. Normally I love Double IPAs because of the big malty sweet citrus that is so common of the style. This brew, however, does not mesh quite the same. The sugar is there, but it doesn’t compliment the bitterness to make a pleasant taste. Rather, hoppy bitterness smacks the taste buds while the sugar swims around the mouth, almost as a separate entity. One note though, the warmer it got, it was more balanced it became. Still, this one is not for me as I enjoy my IPAs at about 35-40 degrees, rather than 55-60 which would make me rate the beer a bit higher.

Bottled at Sorbon, Stockholm. Lightly hazy golden, rch creamy head. Bready lychee aroma. Sweet and full bodied with dense, ompact mouthfeel. Doughy malt overrun by soapy lychee and grapefrut hops. Nothing subtle about it - this is a mcho beer, but in the sense of being overly aggressive, just very powerful and self confident. Massively bitter, but non-assaulting finish. Among the best of it’s kind!