Double IPA
(has 4 batches)
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.96
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Every year we anxiously await the warmer months to unleash this Double IPA, the summer edition of our former YuleSmith seasonals. The flavor imparts orange, grapefruit, and tangerine hop notes with earthy, spicy, and resinous pine undertones. A sturdy malt backbone balances out the profound hop bitterness to create a refreshingly assertive and vibrant beer that offers an unapologetically bold expression of fresh American hops.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
0,65 l bottle from Bierkompass, bottled on 6/5/2014. Minimally hazy, golden orange with a huge, fine pored, foamy, stable, white head leaving some nice lacings on the glass. Very fruity aroma of grapefruit, lemon, orange, passion fruit and mango with honey, resin, pine and biscuits behind in the background. A little touch of alcohol is in there as well. Really intense, sweetish, citrusy taste with the honey, resin, pine and biscuits being more noticeable than in the aroma. The finish is not overly bitter or long, but with a sharp and peppery alcoholic note. Medium to full body, oily and creamy mouthfeel, average carbonation. Very good DIPA with a heavy, tropical nose and a satisfying taste and mouthfeel. Only the finish deserves some critics as I would have preferred less alcohol and more hop bitterness. That’s moaning on a very high level, though. Awesome beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2015
at 13:38
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 8
Poured into a teku glass with a practically opaque dark honey brown with a clean but cloudy white heads. Bottled in May so I’ve had this for over 7 months before opening. The nose shows very subtle but clean and refreshing tropical-fruits. Caramel malts seem to center stage here. Probably not so if fresh. The palate is medium bodied showing the same subtle but clean & refreshing tropical fruit juiciness with moderate carbonation. A very strong malt backbone supports the beer with the distinct IPA bitterness at the end. Probably would be amazing if poured fresh but still very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2015
at 13:28
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A light yellow, slightly orange coloured beer with a quite big and blond head. The nose has peaches, grapefruits, citrusfruits and some pine needles, slightly caramelly malts, hint of flowers, not totally fresh. Taste has storng caramel malts, not too sweet due to bitterness, grapefruits, some pine. Warming alcohol and hint of that is also noticed in the taste. Medium+ bodied, balanced to drink. This is good beer but still "wow" feeling is missing.
Tried
on 23 Jan 2015
at 13:15
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bomber shared between five at the January 2015 Shrewsbury bottle exchange group meeting. Misty golden pour, white head. Tropical fruit nose and flavours, mango, peaches and apricots came to mind as I devoured my share of the beer. Very, very drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2015
at 16:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
650ml bottle at the Hoppy Pub, Thessaloniki. Light hazy golden orange color with white head. Aroma is malty caramel and hoppy pine, light fruity. Sweet and bitter taste, caramel, tropical fruits, piney. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2015
at 14:29
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
bottle from Bierkompass. Hazy golden with a large white head. Full-bodied, intensive malty base with an alcoholic touch, quite warming. Lots of grassy and fruity hops, slightly piney, with mango and peach.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2014
at 09:53
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
65cl bottle from Erzbierschof. Pours in a slightly cloudy, yellowish orange color. The aroma is fruity, pointing at various aroma hops. The taste confirms these suspicions: It is indeed very fresh, fruity, combined with just the right amount of bitterness. An outstanding beer indeed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2014
at 16:25
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
It’s almost winter but why not taste AleSmith’s famed summer IPA... Pours a pale orange with somewhat ochre hue, clear but hazy with deposit and with vivid sparkling, under a thick, clearly hops-enhanced, lacing, egg-white, moussy head with surprisingly good retention seen the ABV. Powerful earthy, spicy and citrussy aroma of grapefruit, pine needles, orange peel, red apple, dried ginger, black pepper, nutmeg, wormwood, tonic water, old cheese, fried chicken, cigarette tobacco, lavender soap, bourbon, bark, mango, papaja, paprika, meat broth, strawberry... One of those luxurious ales with an aroma so complex I could sniff it for hours. In the mouth, an explosion of exotic, spicy and sweet fruits, supported by an utterly refreshing and ’cleansing’ citrussy sourishness and spiciness, medium strong, minerally and slightly sourish carbonation, resinous mouthfeel, then making way for a deep, smooth caramelly and nutty maltiness overcome by the expected strong, dry and extremely long hop bitterness, earthy, leafy, peppery, cheesy, citrussy and so complex, but still remaining elegant and not too ’corrosive’; retronasal, almost liquorice-like spiciness and some warming alcohol is present in the background but only for structure and not obnoxious at all. One of the greatest IPAs I had so far, so satisfying, quenching and refreshing... "California dreaming" on a cold, windy and dark winter night. Wonderful!
Tried
on 12 Dec 2014
at 17:33
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Orange color with medium head. Grapefruit, and heavy aroma of pines and resins, honey, nuts. Taste is resinous, sweet, but not overpowering. Sweet oranges. Tangerine in the finish that lingers. The bitterness fits in perfectly. Perfectly balanced!
Tried
on 09 Dec 2014
at 11:34