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: 217
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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7.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Solid powerful and tasty hop juice
Tropical, citric and pine
[On tap at Mikkeller and Friends in Copenhagen, Denmark]
Tried from Draft at Mikkeller & Friends (Stefansgade) on 10 Jun 2026 at 10:24

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can. Beer Merchants online. 8.2%. Packaged end of January. Fully hazy custard yellow. Slim sticky film of white. Nose has pineapple flesh and pulp. Well ripened orange. Malts are clean. Maybe a whiff of milky oats. Taste has a slight sweetness with a decent pop of orange and grapefruit pithy bitterness. Drinks slick and smoothie like. Good depth of bitterness to finish.
Tried from Can from Beer Merchants on 03 May 2026 at 20:02

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