Single Hop Imperial IPA (Citra)
Flying Dog Brewery in Frederick, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.19
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Aroma of citrus fruits, tropical fruits, caramel, aromatic hops. Flavour is creamy caramel malts, strong citrus hops, with a bittersweet finish. The alcohol is hidden pretty well. Not very complex, but nice and quaffable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Early rating from Beer Buddy app
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Golden color. Mango, citrus and a hint of hopoil in the aroma. Alcoholic flavor. Hopoil. A firm bitterness with some citrus and tropical fruit. Lovely aroma in a powerful beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a slightly hazy burnt copper almost amber color with a finger’s worth of semi-white to off white foamy head. Light lingering lace.
The aroma had a sturdy caramel/toffee maltiness not exactly melding with the grapefruit pulp and orange peel that came out separately. Light pine and a little bit of hop spice, slightly earthy rounded out the edges.
The flavor tried to blend those malts to the hops, but instead of being \"bittersweet\" this was \"bitter\" at times and \"sweet\" at other times. Aftertaste leaned towards the malty side with some hop spice tickling it every now and again, still, it doesn’t mesh well together. Finish was malty.
The palate was about medium bodied, perhaps sitting just a touch over. Light carbonation. ABV did feel as projected by the brewer.
Overall, for a DIPA in this day and age, once again, I’m saddened that Flying Dog has come to where they are. Come on, down there in Maryland! I’m rooting for you from Vermont!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
(Bottle) Amber colour, slightly hazy, with frothy off-white head. Malty, fruity nose with notes of citrus peel, mandarin, pink grapefruit, apricots, caramel, resin, orange marmalade and tropical fruit. Malty, fruity taste with apricots, caramel, mandarin, grapefruit, resin, lemon peel and a bitter finish with lots of resiny, citric hops and a touch of alcohol. More than medium body, with a slight sweetness. Powerful and quite bitter, with a generous hop character and a touch of warming alcohol. Very nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled. Hazy orangeish golden colour with a small off-whitehead. Aroma is floral, fruity, resiny and some slight spicy notes as well. Flavour is thick tropical fruity, resiny and some floral notes with some slight spiced notes and nice sweet maltiness to it. Hides the alcohol really well.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sample, draught, 4 ounces, during the Bacon and Beer Fest in New York with Luc Bourbonnière, savoured on July 26 2014; eye: amber, clear, no effervescence, no head, no lacing; nose: resinous hops, pine, tangerine, light malt; mouth: resinous hops, pine, tangerine light malt, astringency, finale in resinous hops with presence of Cointreau, full body, average carbonation, quite bitter, lightly sweet, lightly harsh texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Échantillon, en fût, 4 onces, durant le Bacon and Beer Fest à New York avec Luc Bourbonnière, savourée le 26 juillet 2014; œil : ambrée, limpide, pas d’effervescence, pas de mousse, pas de dentelle; nez : houblon résineux, pin, tangerine, léger malt; bouche : houblon résineux, pin, tangerine, léger malt, astringence, finale en houblon résineux avec présence de Cointreau, corsée, carbonatation moyenne, pas mal amère, légèrement sucrée, texture légèrement râpeuse; en résumé : bien
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Keg at Mother Kelly’s, Bethnal Green, London. A hazy golden/amber coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Sweet, malty, tropical fruit aroma. Tastes similar, sweet, malty, tropical fruit, slightly musty. Not such a fresh half pint but still very tasty.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Rich, slightly hazy copper and blonde tinted amber coloured body with a single centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of strong alcohol, hops, pine, resin, malt with hints of some tropical fruit and pineapples. Medium to Full-bodied; Rich flavour of malt and honey up front with a large hop presence and some definite resinous and piney notes to show the character along with some of the lemongrass, sage and pineapple elements as well. Aftertaste is super pungent with a lot of alcohol, a strong malt body with a good hop balance and still some sugars that balance everything out nicely. Overall, a nice imperial IPA, but nothing special - still a touch rough around the edges and showing some good balances, but still on the pungent end of things, especially with the alcohol burn. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Whole Foods in Tyson’s Corner (Falls Church), Virginia on 10-July-2014 for US$2,99 sampled at home in Washington on 02-October-2014.