Bottle. Pours reddish cider amber with off white head. Nose/taste of tropical fruit, hemp, grassy hops, caramel malt and pink grapefruit. Medium body. Finishes sticky/sweet resin.

12 ounce bottle from pepsican. Thanks! Pours a hazy amber color with a thin tan head. Poor head retention. Aroma of citrus, herbal and earthy hops with pale malts. The taste is herbal, earthy and citrus hops.. almost peppery... with caramel malts. Medium-full bodied, lingering bitterness, average carbonation. Solid DIPA.

12 oz stubby bottle purchased at Beertopia in Omaha, Nebraska. The pour is a mostly clear copper golden with a one inch light tan head that falls quick with big bubbles. The aroma is citrus sweetness, honey, green grapes, and an additional malty sweetness. After the initial hop, some garlic yeast and alcohol show. Taste is sort of a resin astringent grassiness, along with a whisper of the citrus, a goodly amount of the honey and finishing dry with some of the green grape. The after taste is hot alcohol and the unrefined clove yeast and resin. The palate is medium bodied, dry clove hot finish. Bottle wasn’t dated, so no idea age on this. As is, not really my style of DIPA. Great bottle and label, though.

12 oz bottle from Pepsican labeled Hop Sutra. Nose is pine, ivy, with some grapefruit, and light fruity esters. Clear orange copper with a medium yellowish beige head. Flavor is bitter with pine, grapefruit, and a little pineapple, Finishes with a long lasting bitterness.
Earlier Rating: 12/22/2011 Total Score: 3.9
12 oz bottle from pepsican. Nose is ivy pine and citrus. Clear copper orange with a tiny yellow beige head. Flavor is pine bitterness with some lemony notes. Actually quite good.