Typically American double IPA but with rye malt. Firm and stable, snow white head, colour misty orange blonde. Citrussy hop aroma, bitter honey, pine needles, peach, dried apricot, flowers. Taste at first with a soft maltiness, bit caramelly, fresh citrus and other fruit notes, complex, finishing powerfully yet very elegantly hoppy, with a long, complex bitterness. Excellent example of its style, I love this brewery.

Bomber received in trade. Thank you StefanSD! Spring 2014 ”vintage”. Pours very hazy deep yellow with a rather thin frothy white head that leaves a small trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is very fruity with crackers, pink grapefruit juice, lychee, ripe gooseberries, freshly cut grass, pine needles, cape gooseberries, black currant leaves, resinous wood, lemon balm, dill, orange zest and mango. Taste is bitter and fruity with crackers, moist grass, ripe gooseberries, dew-covered black currant leaves, lychee, pine needles, grapefruit rinds, orange zest, lemon zest, resinous wood and hints of dried juniper berries and alcohol. Mouthfeel is soft, round, tiny astringent, dry, very tiny boozy and medium to full bodied. Finish is bitter and fruity with crackers, moist grass, gooseberries, grapefruit rinds, cape gooseberries, lychee, pineapple, mango, resinous wood, orange zest and lemon zest. Very different from the other HotD beers I’ve tried so far but this brewery keeps on impressing and shows they know how a solid IIPA should taste too.

Bottle (Winter 2014) poured into a tulip. Pours a hazy apricot yellow with half a finger of off-white head. Aromas of tropical fruit, stone fruit, citrus, floral. Tasting notes of big tropical fruit, citrus, caramel, pine, floral hops, little onion/garlic. Medium body with a semi-dry finish, juicy mouthfeel. Pretty nice DIPA.

Looks like plum juice. Very cloudy like unfiltered juice. Nose is very juicy. Simcoe and galaxy come to mind. Taste is mineral full bodied mouthfeel lots of champagne like characteristics. Grapefruit juice. Very nice acidity and clean finish. I quite like this one. Very close to hill farmstead abner.