7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Aroma of caramel malt, pine resin, fruits, hint of liquorice, grapefruit, lots of hops. Flavour is moderate sweet with a looooong bitter finish. Just a little boozy. Lots of intensity and complexity to this one. Interesting experience drinking this beer.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Orange golden color. Raisin, oily hops and red berries in the aroma. Malty sweet flavor with oily hops, raisin, red fruit. Piney, a harsh bitterness. Slightly alcoholic.

7.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap@Blue Raven, Copenhagen - hazy dark amber with a white head. Sweet fruity and malty with some grapefruit and tangerine, some citrus shred, big solid caramel malty backbone, some biscuity toffee notes, sticky resinous hoppy finish. Great old school dipa action.

7.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 5

Aus der Flasche im 2018-10 getrunken. Beim ersten Schluck schlägt die Hopfenbitterkeit recht hart zu und es war kaum trinkbar. Doch als es wärmer wurde fing eine Alkohlische Süße diese Bitterkeit ein und gleich sie sogar recht gut aus, was für mich typisch für ein Triple IPA ist. An Ende war es sehr gut genießbar aber dennoch nicht ganz harmonisch.

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8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Imperial IPA by this popular brewing company in Ohio, bottle from De Caigny. Cobweb-lacing, egg-white, thick and creamy, very stable head over an initially clean, warm amberish-hued orange blonde beer with coppery tinge. Aroma of dried mango and dried orange peel, old bread crust, toasted onions, lots of grapefruit, green olives, old dusty chicken spices, gin, persimmon, wormwood, bitterroot. Low sweetishness in the onset, notes of tamarillo, dried mango and grapefruit, minerally side notes, oily and somewhat vinous mouthfeel; bread crust- and dried out biscuit-like malt body, full and rounded, over which a huge ‘cloud’ of hoppiness is draped, pushing upwards retronasal aromas of grapefruit, gin spices, red curry and wormwood leaves but, more than anything else, covering the mouth in an oily, very bold, peppery and tonic water-like bitterness, which lasts and lasts – this is DIPA (or IIPA) in the harsh, completely uncompromising old school way, and in these NEIPA-hyped times, I for one welcome this return to the bitter roots of modern American IPA. Hoppin’ Frog rarely disappoints.

9.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Oh my stars. A massive, sticky, resinous wonder of an Imperial IPA, full of grapefruit and orange, dank and berry, garlic and salt, caramel and earth. Bitter as hell, yet with enough gooey malt goodness to develop a sweet roll center. Finishes herbal and grainy with a stone fruit undercurrent and deep veins of pine. Enormous wet malt and citrus nose. Chunky, viscous texture has just the right amount of alcohol kick. As good as IPAs get. Amazing beer. Amazing.

8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

650ml bottle at home. Light hazy orange color with almost beige head. Heavy hoppy and malty aroma, pine, grapefruit, other citrus fruits, light grassy, caramel. Sweet and heavy bitter taste like the aroma. Body is medium to full sticky with soft carbonation.

6.1

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

Botella @Cervecería C.R. (Cantina de Renfe), Avilés 05/07/2015 Color ambar, botella con bastante sedimento y grumos en suspension, aroma a frutado, carton, final muy amrgo y seco, sabores oxidados.