Killer Green
Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery in Hood River, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
7.05
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
500ml bottle from Brewers Haven. Dark golden pour, cloudy, one finger foamy head. Musty, fruity aroma, burlap. Taste is hoppy, grassy, dry, light maltiness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
500 ml bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 9/19/2019. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy deep golden/amber/light orange color with a 2 finger fairly dense and fluffy off white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, lime, peach, pear, apricot, passion fruit, mango, honeydew melon, black currant, berries, citrus peel/rind, wood, mint, peppercorn, pine, cracker, bread dough, toasted biscuit, light honey/caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and bready malt notes; with big strength. Taste of big red grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, lime, peach, pear, apricot, passion fruit, mango, honeydew melon, black currant, berries, citrus peel/rind, wood, mint, peppercorn, pine, cracker, bread dough, toasted biscuit, light honey/caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, minty, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, lime, peach, pear, apricot, passion fruit, mango, honeydew melon, black currant, berries, citrus peel/rind, wood, mint, peppercorn, pine, cracker, bread dough, toasted biscuit, light honey/caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and bready malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance, and no lingering hop astringency after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness and carbonation. Medium-plus carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy malts and sticky/resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 7.3%. Overall this is a fantastic wet hopped IPA. All around fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and bready malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and easy to drink with the modestly bitter/resinous/drying finish; not overly aggressive. Fantastic Brewers Gold, Simcoe profile. Extremely vibrant, earthy, dank, and fairly juicy hops; with a great balanced clean bready malt backbone. Minimal residual sweetness with crisp resin dryness. A highly enjoyable offering, and outstanding style example as expected.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
500 ml bottle from Tavour, 10/29/19. Unclear orange-amber color, beige head, strong lacing. Definitely a good looking beer. Classic west coast hop thing here, pine / resin forward, lots of spice, some herbal notes, touch of grapefruit, but otherwise, this is not really at all fruity. Drinks hoppy, dry, and big. Really a top notch example of an old-school west coast IPA. The hops do feel fresh. Tasty. 8/4/7/4/15
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
The bottling date was messed up so all I could tell you is that it was sometime in 2018. The Aromas are old hops, Amber malt, mint. The flavors AR Bittersweet fresh hop qualities are gone with a full body and good carbonation. Too bad I didn't try it when it was fresh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
2017 bottle opened July 2018, so definitely not as fresh as it should be. Nose has light caramel, pine resin, jasmine, some grass, citrus and light juniper. Flavour is light caramel with a medium+ pine bitterness and a touch of spice. Doesn't seem as bitter as the 95 IBU would indicate which may be due to the age. Mouth is medium slick with average carbonation and a long bitter finish. 8/3+/7/3+/15+
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Fresh hop version on draught with 95 IBU. Amber colour, rather too dark for an IPA with white head. Light aroma, less than you'd expect with a nice evergreen note. Restrained flavour, doesn't taste as hoppy as it says. Over the tongue finish.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Killer Green from Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Amber. Bright. Thin head. Bit of bubblegum pops from the aroma. Sweet on the palate, again phenols, touch of bitterness but more malty and phenolic. Never really comes together, and certainly is a let down as an IPA. On revisit what first came across as phenols was really more orangey.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
2016 vintage. Copper with a white head. Citrus and floral notes with a decent malt backbone. Soft bitterness profile. Faint earthy and pine notes. Full flavored IPA with a more restrained bitterness, which aides its drinkability. Quite nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
Growler fill from Growler Guys CDA. This is my Barbara Walters beer. Aroma is earthy, pine, very fresh. Pours slightly hazy orange with an off-white head. Taste is very much ripe dank sticky green bud, lightly bitter with a candy sweetness, a bit of a tang, and even a savoriness. The aroma is nice, but somewhat lackluster compared to the flavor, which is damn near perfect for style. Delicious stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy amber,small whiteh ead.Light citrus hop nose & palate, fruity tones.Medium strength lasting hop finish with light malt in back