Double Simcoe IPA
Weyerbacher Brewing Co. in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.68
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Fast on the heels of our fantasticly reformulated Hops Infusion, our brewers have picked up the gauntlet and brewed a Double IPA using exclusively Simcoe(R) Hops! This west coast Hops was created in 2000 by Select Botanicals, Inc. and carries a fantastic flavor profile abounding with citrusy-grapefruit, piney, resiny notes that pushes this Double IPA over the top. 9.0% ABV in the brew gives it a nice malt foundation as well.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Draught from d 55. Orangey pour white head. Floral hops and citrus and pine nice enough.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 01:10
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
deep amber pour, with a huge frothy sticky off white head. HUGE pungent hop aroma, quite skunky, and intense. Big notes of citrus, and pine. The body is thick, and full. Flavour is very hoppy, this is a mega hop bomb. THis is extreme beer. Extremely bitter, the 9% doesn;t show a bit. Excellent DIPA.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:01
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Red berries and grapefruit in the aroma. A strong flowery hoppiness with just a bit of red berries. Likeable, but not well balanced.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07
6/10
Tried
on 07 Mar 2019
at 09:32
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Orange color. Aroma: hoppy, tropical fruits with honey, pine, earthy notes, citrus, pineapple. Taste: mighty honey maltiness (not very fresh), strong hop bitterness, warming aftertaste, earthiness, pine, grapefruit, resin, raisins.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2018
at 19:40
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
From Sep 2006
Poured from 22oz bottle a hazy amber with a huge billowy head of foam that shrunk but remained as a billowy layer for the entire session. Color me impressed!
The smell is all hoppy and fruity, as in grapefruit and that's pretty much what I was hoping for in this style of ale.
The taste is really all about the hops.The grapefruit bitterness is big and I'm finding it's hitting my taste buds on a more than positive note. Yep, if this was available locally and I needed a real hop fix, I'd turn to this one with no hesitation. And...as far as the abv goes, it's hidden pretty darned well so I'm able to tip the glass to my mouth more easily than I should be able to...;^) That says something about how well this DIPA is made by the crew at Weyerbacher.
Bottom line: I've had DIPAs that had a goodly amount of malt flavour in 'em to create a respectable balance and I've been able to enjoy those interpretations but... this isn't one of *them* and that is more than ok in my book. See it? Buy it!
My thanks to Nutbrown for "throwing" this one in in our trade!
Edit: I just received another bottle today(June 16, 2008 from fellow BA Yamar)) so I'll see if anything has changed, tastewise, since I last had this one.
Well, the big grapefruit notes are still there with a touch of grass but I'm noticing more of the malt this time, a touch of caramel and a bit of bread. More balance than I reported in my first review. Nice medium mouthfeel and it finishes with a nice bitter hop kick. I'm so glad I got a chance to try it again so I could put a few more details in this addendum to my review. Thanks Kevin!
Poured from 22oz bottle a hazy amber with a huge billowy head of foam that shrunk but remained as a billowy layer for the entire session. Color me impressed!
The smell is all hoppy and fruity, as in grapefruit and that's pretty much what I was hoping for in this style of ale.
The taste is really all about the hops.The grapefruit bitterness is big and I'm finding it's hitting my taste buds on a more than positive note. Yep, if this was available locally and I needed a real hop fix, I'd turn to this one with no hesitation. And...as far as the abv goes, it's hidden pretty darned well so I'm able to tip the glass to my mouth more easily than I should be able to...;^) That says something about how well this DIPA is made by the crew at Weyerbacher.
Bottom line: I've had DIPAs that had a goodly amount of malt flavour in 'em to create a respectable balance and I've been able to enjoy those interpretations but... this isn't one of *them* and that is more than ok in my book. See it? Buy it!
My thanks to Nutbrown for "throwing" this one in in our trade!
Edit: I just received another bottle today(June 16, 2008 from fellow BA Yamar)) so I'll see if anything has changed, tastewise, since I last had this one.
Well, the big grapefruit notes are still there with a touch of grass but I'm noticing more of the malt this time, a touch of caramel and a bit of bread. More balance than I reported in my first review. Nice medium mouthfeel and it finishes with a nice bitter hop kick. I'm so glad I got a chance to try it again so I could put a few more details in this addendum to my review. Thanks Kevin!
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2017
at 11:33
8/10
Tried
on 14 Oct 2017
at 06:12
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Zakupione w Dyspensie, Radom. No podwojny chmiel Simcoe wali po nosie konkretnie. Aromat w tym piwie najlepszy, a co dalej. Wyglad to srednia piana, malo trwala kolor metny bardzo rozowo szary. Smak slodycz i nieco chmielu, ale generalnie slodowosc slodkawa ma gore nawet nad podwojnym botanicznym Simcoe. Do tego jest to piwo bardzo alkoholowe wiec ze smakiem tu najslabiej
Tried
on 12 Oct 2016
at 11:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Hazy dark orange with small foamy beige head, strong citrus peel aroma, low carbonation, sweetish start followed by bitter citrus peel taste, thickish body, medium bitter finish. The expiration date had passed, and it felt a bit too bitter. I am not sure whether it was because of that though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 May 2016
at 15:20