The First Immortal DIPA
Slow Boat Brewery 悠航鲜啤 in Beijing, Beijing, China 🇨🇳
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.98
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle at Punk Rock Noodle served in a pint glass. Opaque gold with a thick head of foam. The aroma is spicy fruits and piney hops. Medium bodied with a semi-sweet finish. The taste is quite good with bright pine and fruity hops, sweet malts to balance it out and a dry finish. Cool. Oh, the label said something about bottles being brewed in the US and draft in Beijing which surprised me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle at wpbf. Hazy orange color, small off-white head. Aroma has bread and resin. Medium-bodied. Resiny, fruity and bready. Doesn’t show its abv. The best Chinese beer I’ve had.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
33 cl bottle @ wPBF Ⅲ
Aroma has hops with sweet, tropical fruits. Flavour has fruity hops, gluey tones, grapefruit and mellow gooseberry bush tones. Finishes with lingering hops and herbal tones. Quite good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottled at Petalax Beer Festival. Hazy golden, mid sized head. Soapy grapefruit and caramel up front. Mid sweet with medium-full body and well rounded mouthfeel. Lightly fruity with grapefruit, lychee and dough. Mid bitter finish. Bready and juicy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled@wPBFIII. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, floral, some nice nectary and sweet malty and toffeeish notes. Flavour is fruity, some sweet bready and grainy notes along with a nice honeyish and nectary aftertaste. Very nice and balanced double IPA.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
330ml Bottle (Thanks Guidedogsaint) - Amber with a small head. Pine, peach, toffee and apricot in the aroma. Hoppy, tangy and slightly sweet taste with grapefruit, raisins, sultanas and dried apricot
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle, thanks Cécile for bringing this back from China. Cuivrée, col beige léger. Arôme ofre un bouquet prononcé malté avec un petit côté chocolaté en rétro. Pointe caramel avec un houblonné qui se veut discret ajoutant une fine amertume nasale au caractère fruité-agrumes et herbacé discret. Cela semble s’être atténué avec l’age car la bière avait l’air d’avoir été embouteillée en octobre 2013 ou alors expirait en octobre 2013. Palais reste ici aussi centrée sur le malté avec un agréable côté caramel presque toffee. Houblonné se fait quand même présent avec un léger fruité voire léger herbacé et un palais un peu huileux. Correcte mais au final c’est tout de même le malt qui l’emporte.