Ming the Merciless
Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. in Everett, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.74
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Dark amber pour, big, sticky, foamy head. Aroma is dank, and dark and resinous. Intense pine resins, and a nice biscuity, bready malt base, its subtle but its there and helps to balance out the strong pine. The mouth feel is oily, and the carb is soft. The finish is at the beginning subtly bitter but then it comes on, and grabs your throat and is quite strong. The pine is ever present with hints of mint, and stone fruit. Warming alcohol bear the end with some sharp hops. Thjs tastes bigger than it is.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Poured from the tap. Orangey amber brown with off white head. Mild caramel malt, very resinous hops, earthy barn finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap. Pours a dark mahogany with moderate head. Aromas of jammy dark fruit, pine and brown sugar. Flavors of concentrated grapefruit, bitter pine, and sharp toasted malts. Imperial IPA - I don’t know - way offf balance - but nice enough.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Ming the Merciless from Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy and amber-brown with a thin head. Has an earthy, slightly citrusy hop nose. Clean, with piney grapefruit bitterness. A fair bit of caramelized, biscuity malt. Hop dryness and a dash of alcohol in the finish.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Ming the Merciless from Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draft - Syrupy earthy hops. Clear dark gold. Earthy hops and syrupy sticky notes and a long bitter finish.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Ming the Merciless from Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Draught at Rogue Kitchen & Wetbar (W. Broadway), Vancouver
Dark amber color, dull, nearly light brown, cloudy, with medium sized compact head. Too much caramel for this beer and for this year, at least the sweetness is very mild; strong hopping, very resiny; but the flavor is dominated by herbaceous hops, hay, and in the final by pithy, chicory bitterness. I question also the quality of the malts, getting a strong dusty and stale feeling here. Light cheese in the aroma.
A double IPA from the past, both because it doesn’t seem fresh and because the concept is outdated.
My feeling: kinda of a waste of precious hops.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Ming the Merciless from Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On cask at The Bitter Tasting Room, pours a murky diarrhea brown with a small beige head - something was wrong with the cask, hence the colour. Aroma brings out loads of caramel malts, intense resinous hops, and some dark fruits. Flavour brings out loads of intense resinous hops, bone dry piney hops, and just enough caramel malt to back. Loads of depth to this, with a wonderfully dry mouthfeel. Excellent stuff.