Not a bad DIPA, thick and chewy with a hefty citric-pine finish. Deep veins of caramel malt underline a solid, heavily hopped baseline, orange marmalade and toast leading up to a lengthy resinous, floral fade. Nose offers toasted malt on top of orange and hops, and the pour’s solid, fluffy white head atop a orange-gold body with decent lacing. Texture’s nice and thick. Wasn’t expecting much, but Sam Adams has a pretty good Double IPA on their hands.

12 fl.oz Bottle. Pours with a light hazy orange color and a white head. Old-school nose: bitter fruits like grapefruit and citurs, nice pines and hops. The taste is as bitter fruity as the nose. Grapefruits, grapufruit-peels, citrus. I love the pines and the hops.Nice bittersweet balance. Full bodied.Good one!

Bottle at BrewMaster’s Craft Beer Festival. Pours a clear gold with medium frothy white head that lasts. The aroma is pine and citrus. Medium body, citrus, grass, light resin finish, very good.

Part of their Pack of Rebels 12-pack of cans in Vermont. Golden-amber colour with a warm-beige head the tops the brew lasting the whole time. Dirty lacing. Grassy herbal hop nose with some sweet malts. Decent bitterness, well-blended with the alcohol the is nicely hidden. A fine DIPA.

12oz bottle on Sunday 29th May 2016, while on holiday in California. Amber pour with an off-white topping. Bitter and hoppy, this had a tropical fruit/citrus leaning in both the nose and taste, blended with a decent semi-sweet malty base. Liked it.

12 fl.oz bottle. Pours clear orange golden colour with a huge most good lasting off-white head. Aroma of bitter hops, apricot and peach. Taste of intense bitter hops, apicot, peach, long bitter grassy and spicy finish.

Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from Hannaford, Exeter NH. Aroma is strong citrus with tropical fruit, hint of pine and malt backbone. Appearance is crystal clear light copper with trace sparkle, finger-width foamy white head with poor retention with trace lacing. Taste is sweet citrus and fruit, some pine with bitter balance. Palate is medium bodied with thick texture and late lively carbonation. It gets real dry real fast from the middle of the sip through the finish. Overall, a pleasing beer but does not stand out in a very competitive category.

Refrigerated 12 oz. aluminum can poured into a snifter. Clear golden with small white head. Aroma is herbal hops, medium body, medium carbonation, and a little lacing. Taste is bitter hops.

Draught at Lord Hobo, 3/22/16.
Hazy orange-copper-amber with a beige head atop that shows moderate retention.
Smells leafy, citric, definitely some pine and caramel. Not boozey but certainly heady and strong/sharp. No real juiciness, though there certainly is some dry pineapple and lime. Bread and caramel always sitting right behind every hop note....A bit intimidating in that aspect.
Ya, they just don’t get it. Like Stone, Lagunitas and the like of other awful breweries, they don’t know how to brew a balanced, elegant beer with any finesse. It’s just syrup, sugar and a whole shitload of stewed hops, pine, heavy grapefruit and resin. Sure, some fun tropical notes, light mango and plentiful dank character gets in there, but it’s not about what you get in there, it’s about what you leave out. This doesn’t leave out anything and smacks of poor, out-of-touch brewing, which is obviously no surprise to anyone who’s drunk a Sam Adams beer ever. And exactly like Stone, Lagunitas, DFH and such, for every good beer they make, they put out 25 bad ones. Oh well, who cares. Would never order a Sam anyways, this was just part of a Scripted flight so I may as well have tried it. Not nearly as bad as Rebel Raw at least!

Very fruity and hoppy. Good example of a double IPA. Not too sweet. Alcohol content well-concealed.