Dissenter
Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - India Style Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.26
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Imperial IPL
It’s been a dozen years since we’ve brewed a lager—and, true to form, we’re going big with Dissenter India Pale Lager, our argument in favor of the potential for complex lagers. Brewed with a wide variety of tropical, citrus-forward hops, Dissenter clocks in at 8.7% ABV and 70 IBUs. Our ales are fermented at warm temperatures, but this lager is fermented cold, using a different kind of yeast. The longer brewing process used for lagers gives Dissenter an exceptionally clean finish, allowing you to appreciate the clear beauty of the hops as you would a well thought out, eloquent dissenting opinion. We’ll let this one speak for itself.
It’s been a dozen years since we’ve brewed a lager—and, true to form, we’re going big with Dissenter India Pale Lager, our argument in favor of the potential for complex lagers. Brewed with a wide variety of tropical, citrus-forward hops, Dissenter clocks in at 8.7% ABV and 70 IBUs. Our ales are fermented at warm temperatures, but this lager is fermented cold, using a different kind of yeast. The longer brewing process used for lagers gives Dissenter an exceptionally clean finish, allowing you to appreciate the clear beauty of the hops as you would a well thought out, eloquent dissenting opinion. We’ll let this one speak for itself.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours clear dark golden color with white head. Floral hop aroma with some toasted malt. Citrus and grassy hop flavors with some toasted malt and caramel. Medium body with average carbonation.
Tried
on 30 Aug 2014
at 09:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750 mL bottle from Beer Run, opened 8/13/14. Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a medium sized frothy off-white head. Good head retention. Aroma of toasted malt, caramel. floral and spicy hops. The taste is dry, toasted malt, caramel, citrus, earthy hops. Medium bodied, lingering bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Aug 2014
at 20:57
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft @ brewery. Sweet piney orange hops and caramel malt aroma. Clear golden yellow with a small white head. Sweet resinous piney orange hops, citrus peel and caramel malt flavor. Medium sticky body, soft carobnation.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Aug 2014
at 09:13
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a clear yellow with a white head that lasts throughout the beer and laces. Aroma has a good amount of pine, lager yeast and grass with an earthy grain backbone. Flavor combines grain and pine with a lager yeast backing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2014
at 17:58
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle sample in R-Kansaw. Hazy straw color, fluffy white head. Aroma of very fruity fresh hay. Taste is fruity straw and hay. Very tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2014
at 15:59
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750 ml bottle at the DC Local Tasting. Clear golden yellow with off-white head. Aromas of pine, floral notes, citrus. Tastes of pine, floral notes, citrus, hops. Medium body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2014
at 20:53
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Very piney and wonderful overall. Pours golden with good head and lacing. Finishes with good dose of bitterness. Lots of citrus, with great balance. Everything I could want in an IPA and it’s a lager. Bottle thanks to someone at tasting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2014
at 09:19
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22oz bottle pours a clear gold with some cloudy white head. Nose has some clean/bright pine, soap, a little rosemary, some orange. Flavor is clean citrus, pine sap, rosemary, grapefruit. Mellow finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2014
at 17:19
7.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Rosehips, lillies, caramel aroma. Clear golden, thin head. Honey, grass, and lillies on the palate. Oily. Well hopped. A lot of flavor packed into a lager. Pretty nice!
Tried
on 17 Aug 2014
at 06:31
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
750ml bottle. Poured a clear golden color with a small white head. Aroma was malty, lager yeast, plenty of hops. Flavor was hops. Lager notes, yeast. Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2014
at 17:19