Anniversary #5 Double IPA
Back Hill Beer Company in Rochester, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Special|
Score
7.32
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Anniversary #5 Double IPA is officially here!
This year we went with a 9% Double IPA base and dry hopped it at over 8lbs per bbl w/ Enigma, Superdelic, and Galaxy Spectrum. The result is a wildly hazy and pungent double IPA. Huge peach, tropical fruit punch, and ripe red fruit notes surge out of the glass and land on a pillowy soft body thats oh-so-easy to drink. Certinaly worthy of our 5th Anniversary celebration.
Available at open on 10/1 on draft and in cans.
Also, we have to give a huge shout out to @yeahmattwyatt for yet again creating the best can art we could imagine!
THERE’S BEER IN THE MILL!
This year we went with a 9% Double IPA base and dry hopped it at over 8lbs per bbl w/ Enigma, Superdelic, and Galaxy Spectrum. The result is a wildly hazy and pungent double IPA. Huge peach, tropical fruit punch, and ripe red fruit notes surge out of the glass and land on a pillowy soft body thats oh-so-easy to drink. Certinaly worthy of our 5th Anniversary celebration.
Available at open on 10/1 on draft and in cans.
Also, we have to give a huge shout out to @yeahmattwyatt for yet again creating the best can art we could imagine!
THERE’S BEER IN THE MILL!
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from trade with CLW--thanks, Chris! Opaque, milky banana smoothie, ring of head, trace lacing. Aroma is strong cooking herb, milder fruit salad. Taste is strong tangerine, citrus, hint of Smarties candies, bready malt, hint of herb. Smooth, thick texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Meaty. Taste bests aroma.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Dec 2025
at 00:45
8/10
Thanks Chris. Candied citrus, pineapple, balanced hops. Clean, smooth, great mouthfeel. Very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Dec 2025
at 18:08
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Undated can, released Oct 1st and picked up from the brewery by CLW. Thanks, Chris! Drunk 11/13/25.
Good deal of herb with lots of pineapple and soft citrus juice. Rich, but well-attenuated malts adding light honey, light biscuit, light white bread. No alcohol or sugar for its size. No resin.
Herbal, spicy, with a chewy, deep texture with good attenuation. Pineapple, wood, spice...but maybe a bit too much herb and approaching overripe pineapple twang. They absolutely nailed the texture, and attenuation and lack of alcohol or resin, but I'm just not in to these Galaxy hops these days. To be fair, this is a top tier IPA, every bit as good as any Galaxy IPA Tree House and Fidens puts out.
Good deal of herb with lots of pineapple and soft citrus juice. Rich, but well-attenuated malts adding light honey, light biscuit, light white bread. No alcohol or sugar for its size. No resin.
Herbal, spicy, with a chewy, deep texture with good attenuation. Pineapple, wood, spice...but maybe a bit too much herb and approaching overripe pineapple twang. They absolutely nailed the texture, and attenuation and lack of alcohol or resin, but I'm just not in to these Galaxy hops these days. To be fair, this is a top tier IPA, every bit as good as any Galaxy IPA Tree House and Fidens puts out.
Tried
from Can
at
Back Hill Beer Company
on 13 Nov 2025
at 23:21
7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 oz can. Aroma is mild pineapple and leafy green hop cones. Pineapple and mango-like hints come through upfront with a very subtle herb hop finish. A decent amount of juicy character. Easy drinking.
Tried
from Can
at
Back Hill Beer Company
on 15 Oct 2025
at 23:18