6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bomber from the brewery. Aroma is caramel malt, grain, a bit worty. Pours slightly hazy new penny copper with a one finger bone white head with good retention, leaving some lace. Taste is moderately bitter backed by a strong caramel malt sweetness. Has faint citrusy and piney hop edges, but this IPA is all about the malt. Very much a backward thinking brew, harking back to the 90s and early 2000s when double IPAs were still a brand new thing and only a handful of west coast breweries were putting them out. Admittedly, the malt bill is quite tasty, but I prefer what IPAs evolved into after that interesting time in craft beer history, when it became all about the hops and malt would become more of a background nuance, not the star of the show.