Weyerbacher Brewing Co. Double Simcoe IPA

Double Simcoe IPA
(has 1 batch)

 

Weyerbacher Brewing Co. in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Imperial / Double Regular
Score
7.67
ABV: 9.0% IBU: 90 Ticks (all batches): 152
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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7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle in the company of Doppelganger, Tracey and Loz. Poured copper in colour with slight haze and off white head. Super aroma with pine and resin notes in abundance. This beer really took no prisoners in the taste stakes, as you taste buds were instantly assaulted with an intense bitter and resiny bite this was tempered with an initial sweetness that soon offered it’s submission to the crushingly bitter fury of the Simcoe hop. Just when you think it’s all over there was a grapefruit pithiness that Doppelganger picked out and how right he was this lingered forever and a day. A great beer, but quite a shock for someone quite unaccustomed to such hoppy beers it was quite a blast to the palate.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Jun 2007 at 01:53

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 oz bottle. Murky, fiery orange-red body, medium buff head. Sharp, citrusy hops aroma, with strong sugared grapefruit characteristics. Chewy, sweet, resiny grapefruity hops body supported by bready malts. Bold and assertive, syrupy body. Hits all the right notes for a Double IPA, but the notes are almost all delivered by the Simcoe hops. A for execution, I for creativity.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2007 at 22:45

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Nice very hazy deep amber coloured body with a thinnish white head. Aroma of nothing but pure hops. Fresh and young simcoe (i’m guessing) hops show pine and citrus flavours with a very bright essence. Full-bodied; Strong hoppy flavours attached with a sappy and sweet finish make for a very nice and potent mouthful. Aftertaste finishes nicely - very bittered from the hops, but showing some sweetness and citrus flavours from the same. Overall, a good IIPA, still a bit too much for me, but I can recognise that this one is pretty good. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased directly from Weyerbacher in Easton, Pennsylvania on 26-May-2007 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Tried from Can on 26 May 2007 at 15:53

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
22oz bomber. Great, fantastic Double IPA. Pours a orange color. Aroma is that of citrus, pine, and grapefruit. Flavor was as stunning as the aroma. Great amounts of hops, pine, and citrus. The alcohol is very well masked for 9%.
Tried on 12 May 2007 at 23:02

3.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 2
I am not a fan of DIPA but when I have a chance to taste a new one I go for it because you never know what you may encounter, perhaps I’ll come to enjoy one someday. This was on tap at the Bocktown in the Robinson shopping complex. It has a darker hazy orangish brown color. Initially this had a big head but it fades rapidly as it sits. The head eventually appears a tea froth. Very hoppy initial aroma ~ you know you are going to get a taste bud impact just from the smell. I better brace myself. Initial flavor is yeeow, suffering succotash, mow over my taste buds. Bitter oppressive grapefruit rind coat the inside of my mouth. However, although the hoppyness is overwhelming, I do detect some fruitiness in there, something I normally do not encounter in this style. I know this is high alky but the hoppyness covers most any alkyness that may be in there. Bitterness is just to much for my girlie taste buds. Medium low carbonation. The finish of this beer is long lingering acrid qualities that every IPA lover will enjoy. Won’t quit, keeps going and going like the energizer bunny. Somebody please give me an Old Heathen to chase this down with. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to this style. I’m sorry but I don’t have enough experience to rate by style, so I go with how much I like it.
Tried from Draft on 02 May 2007 at 16:10

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Mmmm, mmm. Now this is a DIPA I can get my head around. First, a top aroma, I love simcoe. Lemon lime mango, with a resiny background. Flavor is more resiny, and my east coast bias shows here, as this is quite balanced with a full rounded caramelly sweet bready malt palate. Finishes nicely bitter. Appealing amber-copper color, crystal clear, with a solid thick creamy head.
Tried from Can on 27 Apr 2007 at 21:21

8.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 9
Bottle. Deep copper body with a frothy head that isn’t too big and is already starting to lace. Aromas are sweetish with pine, grapefruit and pineapple from the hops. Flavor is about the same with a nice and well balanced malt presence that supports the bitter (but tasty) hops presence. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect on this one and it is turning out to be one of the better beers that I’ve had recently.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Apr 2007 at 20:18

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Pours deep amber/gold into a shaker. Fluffy off-white micro head slowly recedes leaving spot lacing. Grapefruit, pine and resin aromas. Hops upfront sweet malt in thee middle to sharp grapefruit in back with a lasting resin finish.
Tried on 18 Apr 2007 at 18:10

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle. Thanks to Alex (fiulijn) for sharing this one. Pours a Hazy amber/orange color with a longlasting off-white head. Malty and very hoppy pine needles aroma. Also has some citrus hints. Sweet malty andry bitter flavor with lots of pine needles and citrus. Sweet malty finish with a long bitter aftertaste.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Mar 2007 at 10:11

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
LCRBM2. Extreme hop - grassy, perfumed, pine. Honeyish notes. Sparkly dry mouthfeel. Herbal aftertaste.
Tried on 03 Feb 2007 at 15:18