Toppling Goliath Brewing Company King Sue

King Sue

 

Toppling Goliath Brewing Company in Decorah, Iowa, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Rotating
Score
8.01
ABV: 7.8% IBU: 50 Ticks: 214
This full-bodied, hazy double IPA is Citra-hopped with a juicy combination of mango, orange, and pineapple flavors finishing with a grapefruit aroma and ferocious bite.
 

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8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8
Reviewed from notes.
Bottle to tulip.
Appearance: thick orange haziness with a finger's worth of white foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some light lace
Aroma: pineapples, mangoes, sweet onions, and grapefruit; light clean malts
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas to a bright juicy bittersweet to slightly danky quality; finishes mango to sweet oniony to grapefruity
Texture: medium bodied, great sipper; smooth along the tongue; some hop bitterness is assertive but not too much
Overall: very nicely done NE styled DIPA well worthy of returning to.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2026 at 16:31

8/10
Tried from Can on 18 Jul 2025 at 13:41

8/10
Draft at beer culture on 45th. Cloudyish pour. Citrus, hops, honestly maybe the best neipa on history. Balanced like it's walking a tightrope.
Tried from Draft on 20 May 2025 at 01:42

7.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 10 Overall 6.5
Tap at Billie’s on Saturday. Gondolom ez nagy durranas lehetett, amikor piacra kerult, most azert inkabb egy mar-mar a nagyuzemiseg hataran egyensulyozo, decens, de majdhogynem erdektelensegbe fullado sor
Tried from Draft on 10 Mar 2025 at 09:04

8/10
Tried on 01 Mar 2025 at 16:23

7.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Hazy golden with a white head - Fruity hop aroma - Malt body with a fruity hop flavour and bitternesss - Fruity hop flavours goes into the finish - This was good
Tried from Draft on 01 Mar 2025 at 14:16

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Аромат прям очень вкусный и яркий. Много и фруктов и цитрусов, некий баланс я бы сказал. Цветя ярко желтый, весьма мутный, отличная белая пенка. Вкус тоже вроде бы и хорош, но снова как у многих олдовых американцев слегка мешает излишняя горечь на финише. А так много фрукто, есть и мякоть от цитрусовых. Легкая сухость. В целом весьма сбалансированно, но топ ли это сейчас?
Tried on 07 Feb 2025 at 05:56

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Can from BiervanEijk, Frederiksoord. Aroma is citrussy with lots of orange, some oniony dankness, fruity hops, some pine. Notes of tropical fruits with grapefruit and a touch of mango. Medium bitter, some sweetness. Medium body. Excellent.
Tried from Can on 01 Feb 2025 at 07:07

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Hazy gold with a three-finger head. Aroma is citrus fruit and tropical fruit. Taste is also citrus fruit and tropical fruit
Tried on 21 Jan 2025 at 05:38

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Murky pineapple-apricot smoothie body, medium to thick, puffy off-white to cream head. Nose bright, juicy citrus, including orange, tangerine, and lime, in addition to pineapple. Body is a tangy-sweet blast of citrus and pineapple, with some fleshier sweet elements providing a modest anchor. Originally rated 7-4-8-4-15 on Ratebeer (May 4, 2021), but I'm sipping this now and think it belongs in my upper echelon of hazy IIPAs.
Tried from Can on 07 Jan 2025 at 22:31