Pushing the Envelope Extreme
Willimantic Brewing Company in Willimantic, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.58
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
12 oz hand bottle shared by beastiefan2k. Pour is orange golden with a small off white head. Falls with nice lacing. Aroma of big resin citrus hoppiness. The citrus is pineapple, kiwi, and grapefruit. Some malty honey sweetness behind all of theh op aroma. Nose is big and bold. Taste is the resin pine hoppiness, the citrus notes (more subdued than nose) and really nice bitterness. The malt is present, with a honey sweetness. Palate is medium to thin, lingering bitterness. Not terribly balanced between the hops and malt, but still quite tasty. Nice one, thanks for sharing Eugene.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
FRO Throwdown: Red-copper color. Grapefruit and resin nose. Bready malts well balanced with huge citric hops. This is a really nice DIPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sample at O-town throwdown ’09 Growler. Pours hazy brown, with thin beige head. Aroma is loaded with hops giving it a strong citrus nose. Taste is hoppy, light caramel malts. Despite all the hops, it wasn’t overly bitter, the malt just balanced everything out. at 8.8% is was very light and highly enjoyable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared by Dickinsonbeer - I love this beer, despite the cheesy images of people hang-gliding and bungie jumping that the name evokes - cloudy reddish pour, with a sticky lace - explosively hoppy aroma, with some strawberry and cherry mixing in with the expected onslaught of grapefruit and citrus rind - the hops are very earthy in the aroma and the flavor - the hops don’t assault the tongue like the aroma makes you think they will - instead, you get one of the most well-balanced malt/hop interplays you will find in such an "extreme" beer - intense fruity esters make this taste more like a hoppy american barleywine at times - indescribably balanced.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Less than 3 hour old growler shared by OldGrowth on 3/14/06 in a tulip, chilled to start
Intensely bright orange-amber body, with apricot and peach tones, perfect mix of deep and light shades. Huge, perfectly constructed, dense white head. Perfect retention (recedes slightly to become manageable) and laces in large sheets. Lightly hazy, unfiltered
Tropical fruits galore with wintergreen and spearmint on the end. Clean, very crisp and fresh. Nectarine-papaya-mango fruits with light herbs, very juicy and Pliny the Younger-esque. You can almost taste how juicy the flavor is going to be. Simcoes done to perfection. And fortunately, not too heavy on the columbus. Malt is just a basic pale malt with touches of light caramel/munich influences, but nothing heavy. Yet nor is it underrepresented. Just enough to add balance/body, but allows the hops free range. The aroma is, furthermore, very intense, strong and lasting. Some 30 minutes or so later and every sniff is just as intense and beautiful as the first.
The flavor delivers and then some. Huge, complex hop profile explodes on the palate with fruit juiciness covering every inch of taste receptors. Not quite as much tropical fruits as the aroma would suggest, but nonetheworse, it brings light wintergreen and some medium-dry pine resin. Softly-sweet pale malts add a balancing sweetness and wonderful body/texture, with traces of caramel here and there. But it’s a hop show, from start to finish. Importantly, not overly bitter or resinous in the least. The pine is there, but only comes out on the very end, with a bit of perfuminess or alcohol esters. Sweet and fruit juicy, but yet retains an inexplicable dryness that makes for one of the most drinkable beers I have ever experienced. A lighter version of Pliny the Younger not quite as floral as Hop 15 and maybe not as much tropical fruit, alcohol and malt sugar as Pliny. But the lower alcohol makes it that much more manageable on the palate. Extremely tight, engaging carbonation gives an intensely creamy-spritzy mouthfeel.
A shame this is a draught only brewpub version from the middle of nowhere CT. This needs to be experienced by everyone. Thanks so much Tom!