Deviant Dale's
Oskar Blues Brewery in Longmont, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.55
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This beer is intended to be a sensory assault for hop lovers. With four hop additions during the brew process and a final wallop of excessive Columbus dry-hopping, this beer is meant to say one thing: MORE HOPS! It was was born at the crossroads, in a juke joint, as if Dale’s Pale Ale sold its soul to balance Deviant’s foreboding aromas of citrus, grapefruit rind and piney resins with a copper ball-of-fire color and inscrutable finish.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Copper/amber color with white head. Aroma dominated by citrus and floral notes with some caramel and honey. Clean taste with some hops, caramel and a great malty backbone. Not as good as Dale’s but still a good one.
Tried
on 17 Jul 2013
at 11:02
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Big can shared at home. Pours a clear amber with big white head. Some malts on the nose, but mostly American C hops - grapefruit, apricot, resin, floral, pine. Taste delivers on the hoppy promise, but is well balanced. Good carbonation. Finish is long and lovely.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jul 2013
at 00:01
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Can. Slightly hazy amber with an inch of white head that laces extravagantly and lasts well Aroma of pithy citrus, caramel, marijuana, freshly cut pine. Slightly syrupy, moderate carbonation. Very sweet, with oranges, dough and caramel; zestier citrus flavours burst through - kumquat as well as grapefruit, orange oil kitchen cleaner - but the sweetness never quite gets cleaned up. By the time the strong bitterness has a chance to register it’s just numbing. The hops are nice but everything else is fighting them.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Jun 2013
at 07:05
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Gravity @ GBBF 2012, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.Clear medium to dark amber - red orange colour with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, resin, wood. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light heavy bitter with a long duration, harsh bitter, resin bitter, caramel, malty, hoppy and dry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120808]
Tried
on 27 Jun 2013
at 08:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can from 5000, thanks! Pours a soft copper color with a thin ring of creamy beige head. Hoppy aroma; mostly citrus and pine, but a little floral too. Tastes malty sweet at first before the herbal and floral hops come in. Lightly earthy, but retains a little of what I associate with wet hops. A good IPA, I wanted to like this more, but it just didn’t quite line up for me the way other hoppy OB beers do.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jun 2013
at 05:45
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Can, from Birratrovo, Como, canned 12-03-13 (congratulations for the choice of format!)
Amber color, hazy, with medium sized creamy head. The aroma offers a good amount of hop fruitiness; there is some mango and some oranges, then mild apricot jam; finally, a light earthy note, manure, and biscuits. Good body structure, with round and smooth mouthfeel; it has a moderate residual sweetness, just a light presence of crystal, quite strong biscuity caramel flavor, and obviously a powerful bitterness, with plenty of fruits and some pleasant resins; the final is very long, vibrant and balanced.
Yes, yes; a very solid brew.
Amber color, hazy, with medium sized creamy head. The aroma offers a good amount of hop fruitiness; there is some mango and some oranges, then mild apricot jam; finally, a light earthy note, manure, and biscuits. Good body structure, with round and smooth mouthfeel; it has a moderate residual sweetness, just a light presence of crystal, quite strong biscuity caramel flavor, and obviously a powerful bitterness, with plenty of fruits and some pleasant resins; the final is very long, vibrant and balanced.
Yes, yes; a very solid brew.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Jun 2013
at 05:58
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Appearance: Cloudy amber color with a finger thick white that leaves a fine lacing.
Aroma: Caramel malty, rich hoppy and fruity.
Palate: Medium + body. Slightly sweet and a nice bitterness. Average carbonation.
Taste: Well balanced and nice malty, tropical fruity and rich grape hoppy.
Overall impression: A really powerful and tasty IPA, yet smooth and easy drinkable.
Personal stats: Can from Systembolaget in Uddevalla, Sweden.
Tried
from Can
on 12 May 2013
at 12:42