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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9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 10
Bottle from the Kaapse bottleshop ( NL ) . Bottled 05 06 14 . Pours unclear yellow/amber , good white head . Smell is sweet, caramely grains . Bit hops ( amarillo ?? ) . Taste is nice and refreshing, hoparoma, sweet maltyness , fruity , corns , bitter . Very nice, malty IIPA . Love it !
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2014
at 04:06
10/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 10
darker golden colour, huge, yellowish, creamy head, which lasts for several minutes; marvellous aroma of resiny-citrusy-tropical fruity hops and some biscuit; brilliant bittersweet taste with pine resin, intensive tropical fruits, maltyness and some spicy alcohol - surprisingly intensive malty sweetness can be felt first (together with of course the hops), which hand over the place to the devastating bitterness; amazing IIPA! Who am I to find even a slight mistake in it!?
Tried
from Can
on 03 Oct 2014
at 11:44
9.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 10
Bottle from Drankenhandel Deconinck, Vichte. Amber colour, white foam. Medium carbonation. Very fruity aroma of tropical fruit (citrus, lemon, passion fruit, mango). Juicy character. Sweet with very bitter hoppy finish. Very well balanced. Very good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2014
at 08:24
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Bierkompass.de. Dark golden to amber, clear body, with a big, creamy, slightly beige head, that leaves a lot of lacing. Lovely aroma of pine, grapefruit, lots of tropical fruits, peach, biscuit, honey, slight alcohol. Taste with about the same aromas, also some nice tea notes and suprisingly smooth. Mouthfeel is medium, slick, with a medium carbonation and it finishes pretty smooth, medium bitter, dry, with lemon zest, pine, fruit notes and also some sweet malts. Overall just amazing how smooth this is for an Imperial IPA! Perfect balance, lovely and complex hop notes and with a delicious, smooth malt backbone. Close to a perfect DIPA and completely worth the high ratings!
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Sep 2014
at 15:06
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pale amber with a white head. Aroma is earthy and spicy with grapefruit and pine, a surprising vanilla tone. Medium bodied, carbonation is highish, a little higher than I’d like. Not very sweet with fairly plain pale malty flavours, no caramel. Lots of citrus flavours, earthy and a little peppery at the end. Spices go well there with the dry and firmly bitter finish. No great depth to it, but that dry, almost stern finish more than makes up for it. Would be better for summer, but the seasons don’t work that way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2014
at 04:54
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bomber. Pours a beautiful golden color. Thick, dense, pillowy head leaves some substantial lacing. Aromas of grapefruit and pine resin abound. Taste follows with pine resin and grapefruit showing heavily. A bit sweet with the malt, but the lingering bitterness makes up for that. Medium body with a dry bitter finsh. Just a bit of alcohol making its presence known. Hop forward West Coast DIPA.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2014
at 15:31
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours a light golden-yellow, with middling head. Aroma is very sweet-- bready, malty, fruity. Flavor has a ton of bitter, piney hops in the forefront, with citrus flavors, bready/malty sweetness and a touch of alcohol/booziness. Very nice DIPA.
Tried
on 01 Jul 2014
at 19:32