Double Agent IPL
Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - India Style Rotating|
Score
6.82
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Brewing innovation is about asking "what if?". What if we gave an IPA a new identity and used some of our favorite West Coast hops, with their grapefruit, piney, & tropical fruit character, in a lager? The result is this boldly hoppy & and flavorful brew with the crisp smoothness of a lager. Cheers!
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Crisp copper coloured body with a lighter honey glow and a thin, one centimetre tall just off-white head. Aroma of pale malt, bright hops and a hint of grassiness. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong hop flavours up front with a definite herbal note, some lighter malt backbone flavours and a bit of a spiciness on the finish. Aftertaste shows a great balance of malt and hops with a pleasant light sugar finish and a strong white grape juice-like flavour. Overall, a surprisingly good beer with a very nice balance and an easy-to-drink mouthful. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle, pulled from a 12 pack sampler, purchased from Giant in Fairfax, Virginia, sampled on 02-March-2013.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2013
at 23:14
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours clear amber with a large white puffy head that slowly dissipates with nice lacing. Aroma is pine, citrus. Not strong, but pleasant enough. Flavor is about the same, lightly sweet, lightly bitter. Light body, oily mouthfeel. Refreshing and nice. I like this beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2013
at 19:54
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Grapefruit, orange, and piney hops aroma with some biscuit malt. Clear copper with a large off-white head, and a nice ring of lacing. Grapefruit, orange, piney hops, and a biscuity malt backbone which provides some balance. Light to medium body, moderate carbonation. Very drinkable, but definitely not a lager.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2013
at 14:53
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours brassy gold with a creamy off-white head. Aroma is citrus and resin. Med body. Flavor is bready with a lot of citrus/pine (even grapefruit rind) hop. Finish is very bitter. Great drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2013
at 19:58
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a clear deep amber with an off white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a decent amount of pine hops with some sweet grains and a bit of crisp lager yeast. Flavor starts with crisp lager yeast and grains and has a bit of musty pine coming out in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2013
at 15:19
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Pine and grapefruit aroma with light mineral notes and malt. Pine and grapefruit flavor with light sweet malt. Medium bodied. Pine and grapefruit linger with light sweet malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2013
at 11:17
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours clear copper color with off white head. Grassy aroma with some biscuit malts. Bitter grapefruit and grassy flavor with some lightly toasted malts. Medium body with lively carbonation. A nice, easy drinking and refreshing beer.
Tried
on 12 Mar 2013
at 18:46
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a clear orange/amber with a thin white head that dissipates immediately. Aroma is big on hops. Floral and citrus hop notes. Taste is crisp and bitter. More citrus and floral hops and that unique lager yeast. Well balanced, hop forward and highly drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2013
at 15:12
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Taster at Armanetti’s, Aurora. Am I wrong for liking this one so much? Don’t think so. Sampled from a fresh bottle, I get loads of hops in the nose; citrusy more than piney. More hops when I taste it, but managed by a fine malty backbone. I could call it a "clean lager finish" if not for so much hop lupulin sticking in my mouth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2013
at 11:25