Lightly hazy golden ale with a thick luscious white...beard. Very spicey pinhey hops in aroma, with pine needles. Sweet malt with intense hops in mouth, yet very smooth due to vodka notes. Alcohl comes out more than hops in finish. Excellent. Yahoo! Thanks to PisskyNight!

Pours is a think looking yellow with a large fluffly white head. Aroma is hoppy mixed with some floral goodness. Flavor is of course hoppy but probably not the hoppiest IIPA i have had. I also got some pine and the usual citrus. Very dry tasting beer. Its good but i’ll stick with the hop devil.

Bottle Pours a clear medium amber with a decent offwhite head that was short lived. The lacing however is thin but even and persistant. Aroma is mainly hops but there is something else, smoe vanilla or butterscotch. Flavors are a sharp hoppy bite but sweet and offset enough to be easily drinkable. Not nearly as strong as the few other IIPAs but decent none the less. Plenty of sweet woody notes and moderate carbonation. Aftertaste is a typical hop bite that fades in short order. Not bad. Thanks to goldtwins for this one

Bottled, thanks tiggmtl! Deep golden. Aroma of hay and malt. Very sweet and very hoppy, soft mouthfeel. Biscuity malt is there to balance the hop assault. Really bitter finish. Very pleasant, apart from excessive sugaryness.

Fully clear golden-orange; orangeish, crème-like head. Initial nose dried hops in bales & chaff, going over to full fresh very flowery but dusty hops, rather British. Very powerful hops initially, then changing to cookie malt, sweetish, some citrus, before going to bitter hopflavour. Imagine a spacecake with sugared oranges, filled with humulus lupulus instead of cannabis sativa. Finishes almost harsh-bitter. Bit agressive burning; medium bodied. Like a British IPA concoction, amongst the better, but not outstanding ones.

Secret Santa beer #3, sent by Jason (Dorwart). Clear light amber body, thin creamy off-white head leaving decent lacing. Rindy, resiny hops aroma with notes of sweet caramel. Flavor is an all-out hops assault with big resiny, sticky grapefruit and tangerine rind, pretty much overwhelming the malts and leaving a long, fairly intense bitter aftertaste. Ruinous on the palate. We’ve always had firewater; now we have hopwater. Not the best I2PA IMO.

A hazy orange beer with an orange head. The aroma is very hoppy, but also sweet. The flavor is very sweet with notes of fresh hops, like sticking your head into a hop bush, this leads up to a rather bitter end almost like sucking on a lemon.

03 bottle. It’s hyped, it’s in the top 50. . .it delivered! Brilliant golden orange color, quite bubbly, but not hazy or bottle conditioned (which is my biggest problem with this otherwise magnificent beer). Small disippating head. I had a medium strong aroma on mine, but what it was was fabulous. Sprucey hops, light conifer trees, very dry and peppery. Almost like some wintergreen in there or sweet mint. The aroma lasted pretty well too. Flavor is terfically balanced. This one had a nice hops and malt balance but tended more to the hops flavor, which is nice, as I would prefer more dry over more sweet. Pine hops, some juiciness, juniper. Not over-the top again (wow 3 not over the tops in one weekend for me). Slightly subtle, fresh and no acidity whatsoever. Quite carbonated, medium body. Finishes with a little bit of thiness, no doubt from the filtration, but still incredible. Thanks for the chance to try this George!
2004 bottle Nearly the same as the 03 (well, probably almost exactly the same recipe), but since trying this a year ago, I’ve since found better Double IPAs out there, still a great beer, but a bit too filtered which brings us to the conclusion that North York Sammy states, "Missing something."
2005 draught and bottle Excellently bitter from the outset, but with more of an herbal suggestion, almost like dill, lychee, wintergreen, tangerine and a touch of vanilla mixed in. Very curious in both nose and flavor, though it is more pronounced in the flavor. The bottled version seemed more bitter and with a bit more pine and sharpness, while the draught was stunningly balanced. Almost like they are using a similar (though amped) up recipe based on the prima pils. I must say, though it has american hops, it has a very crisp, light body, with pils like malts. Definitely not a cookie-cutter version this year. Upping it a few points.