Large painted bottle. Orange blonde color. Lemongrass aroma. A sharp and firm hopbitterness with loads of grapefruit and grassy herbal hops. Medium bodied. Very long earthy citric hopbitter aftertaste. A very intense beer. I really liked it. Tap @ ACBF 2012. Tropical fruit in both aroma and flavor. Oily and almost dusty with citric hops. Cellar notes. Slightly alcoholic.

On tap at Fakin Craft Bar, Zagreb. Hazy golden to amber, small off-white head. Moderately hoppy, soft fruity notes, light candy, light honey. Light spicy, hoppy, almost bitter dry touch. Some sweetness at first, but the finish is dry. Medium body, soft caramely texture.

Refrigerated 16 oz. aluminum can from Douglas, canned on April 4, 2019 poured into a glass. Hazy light orange with small white head. Aroma is herbal hops, medium body, lower carbonation, and some lacing. Taste is herbal hops, spice, and slightly bitter finish.

Draft at the source. Hazy gold, white head. Tropical fruit, grapefruit, candied sugar. Interesting.

25.09.2015, tap @ Borefts:
Small creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry grassy, weeds, fresh wood, lawn, leafs, citrus peel, hay, light malts, moss, bark. Taste is dry concentrated grassy, lawn, hay, fresh wood, hay, alcohol, hops, weeds, citrus peel, paper, light malts. Medium to longlasting bitterness, dry and slightly harsh mouthfeel. Fair enough.

Draft in a tasting glass at the brewery. Golden murky, with floral aroma. Medium pine hops taste.

Taster at brewery. Hazy, bright golden, soft soapy head. Aroma seems subdued (this after some high octane strong ales), malty, hint of hops. Taste brings the bitterness, not big and in your face, but appropriate for the style. Bitterness lingers on the palate, and dries out a bit too. Sneaky for a DIPA, but not high in ABV either. Conundrum.

From Jul 2008

Spring 2008

A nice hazy to cloudy light orange colour, the foam is almost non existant but it does leave some lacing on the side of my glass.

Big hoppy nose with grapefruit and some pine and there's some sweetness here as well. Could be fruit, could be caramel.

The taste is strange but good. There's an earthy malt flavour along with some grapefruit, tangerine, and pine that adds some bitterness but overall, the taste is far from bitter. I'd say the earthiness takes center stage.

It has a medium mouthfeel, the carbonation is light to just below medium, and it finishes with just a touch of piney bitterness. No hop bomb here and no malt bomb either. It's very smooth drinking... and very balanced but in a way different to the many others that I've tried of the style. And with it being in the low range abv-wise for a DIPA, I find it's pretty darned drinkable.

I think that if I wanted to introduce a DIPA to a beer drinker who's just starting to explore the world of Microbrews, this would be the one. Good solid but not overpowering flavours that are nicely balanced and make for a pleasurable drinking session. I like what HOTD did here. I like it a lot.