Pure Hoppiness

on tap-pours a patchy off white head and gold color. Aroma is citrus-lemon. Taste is citrus-lemon/some pine/metallic-some bitter, secondary medium malt.

22 oz. Bomber from South Bay Drugs Pharmacy via mail order. Pour is slightly hazy orange with a white head. Aroma is pine and grapefruit hops. Taste is the pine and citrus - grapefruit hops, with some malt in there as well. The finish is clean, crisp, and refreshing.

Bottle from fordest, shared at BCTC. Color is orange gold. Small head. Aroma is strong piney grapefruits and thats all really. Taste is less piney grapefruit or maybe I can say more grapefruit-y pine (meaning the citrus aspects are a bit stronger). Taste has a good medium hoppy bitterness to it. A very nice hop beer but whilst sitting and trying all the other stuff at BCTC it just seemed so plain and uninteresting in comparison.

(Bottle 65 cl) Clear, amber golden with a creamy, off-white head. Fresh, hoppy and somewhat perfumy citrus aroma. The body is medium with sweet, malty accents and some caramel thrown in. But otherwise this is completely dominated by extremely perfumy aroma hops. Not overly bitter though - in spite of the name. Courtesy of sk8viking. 150207

Gold colour to orange; small, just off-white head. Very hoppy nose, dry, but with a marked ureum content. Faint flowery, citrus. Quite dry taste, some malt presence makes itself felt, but it does not really benefit the balance. The ureum is gone in the taste, but the nose keeps interfering. A bit agressive coloured malt - burning MF. Certain, not unwelcome, spritzy MF. Maybe this beer has been handicapped by the last beer tasted, a world-class IPA, but still - this one has a balance problem, IMO.

2005 bomber from DarkElf, consumed on 1/26/06. Peachy-copper colored beer, with some lighter straw golden tones, miniscule bubbles rising sporadically and a large and magnificently well retained foamy white head that provides ample, webby lacing. Beer has light sediment on the bottom and is bottle conditioned. The nose screams right away of a mix of tangerine, strong kiwi, light herbal notes and clean, wet, freshly cut, heavy grass (thanks to the hallertauer). The hallertauer addition does wonderful things for the complexity in the nose, as just mentioned and truly creates distinction in a style that is so difficult to do so. It’s so interesting to really smell what I perceive to be juicy kiwi. Certainly the cascade citrus is there, though not in force, with plenty of mixed (red and white) grapefruit. Ok, now I’m getting maybe a bit too abstract. The nose has a strong lasting smell to it as well, and there is no alcohol. Little malt, though what is there is light creamy caramel, bits of soft honey and grains. The flavor encompasses most of the citrus fruits, but gets more poignant with a starfruit meets lemon meets unripe tangerine sharpness. Well received in the intensely tight, miniscule bubbled carbonation that you can pick apart when pressing the liquid against the roof of your mouth. Washes exquisitely over the palate, with flecks of honey drawn across touches of crisp melon, more kiwi, tangerine and grapefruit. Hoppy and satisfying to the last drop, with a hint of fresh yeast, supple texture and no alcohol apparency whatsoever. What is a perfect IPA? Perhaps this dosent have the malt complexity and extreme hop strength/complexity to be called "perfect" but the flavor is damn near flawlessly done. Drinks like a session beer and is flavored like the best of double ipas. Thanks Stephen! 8/5/8/5/16
2015 draught at Deep Ellum, 12/6/15.
After how mediocre Birthday, Duet and Nelson were, I had very low expectations here. Thankfully, this was a good notch better than all three of those. Not nearly the amount of problematic acidity/resin/bitterness that those had and actually quite reserved on that, overall, given its size. Much softer malt texture, with a more easygoing hop flavor to it. That being said, this didn’t really set itself apart from the best of out there. Not hugely lush, juicy, fresh hop aromatics or flavor, despite everything being enjoyable and not overdone. Very drinkable, though, and would order it again over a lot of other IPAs. Score is for this most recent sample.

Golden-amber colour. Intense green hoppiness - cedar and orange. Just a big megahop beer, very green and citrusy. If you are imaginative you can envision some pale malts in there somewhere. Good beer? Not really. Tasty beer? Oh yeah.