7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

650ml bottle from the lcbo.
Quite dark amber pour, light citrucy hops, and quite a malt backbone.
Cereals, and grains with a hop kick at the end. I think this might have sat in the lcbo warehouse too long before hitting the shelves. Quite good but not as hoppy as i expected.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle, 650 ml, courtesy of Danijel & Mila, shared with JFK10000. Pours hazy orange with off-white head. Caramel, fruits, and hops in aroma. Caramel malty, pine, fruit flavor. Dry hoppy finish.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Poured from the tap. Orangey brown with beige head. Nutty malt with light hop aroma and a little caramel. Flavour same, hopping is a bit light on the taste and tastes slightly watered down.

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Limited edition at 8.5%. Aroma: Surprising caramel notes with wood accents; like it had been wood aged. Candi sugar, jelly bean and orange are completing this uncommon nose for an IPA. But still a very complex and strong palette. Appearance: Gold / copper, slightly hazy, thick head, rocky, medium long lasting and sticking well to glass. Taste: Attack is showing a superb balance between malt and hop, between sugar and bitterness. The following action is happening mostly in salty and bitter notes of hops with a very and long finish. A lot of caramel, butterscotch, toffee, orange zest. Bitterness finish is showing herbal and resinous hops lasting several minutes. Mouthfeel is creamy, full and round. Really a two part tasting experience: malty and sweet to start with ; bitter and dry as finish. Two very independent characteristics. Nevertheless, the tasting experience is extremely interesting. A very particular IPA but remaining excellent.

7.6

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from the LCBO. A deep hazy amber with a generous pillowy gold head that leaves a nice amount of lace. Nose is pine and caramel and bread. Lots of hop bitterness but heavily malted (maybe too much) to balance things. Alcohol warmth at the end. Lively creamy mouth feel. Quite good but I prefer their Regular or Black IPA.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle - Citrus and pine and some biscuit. Clear orange with a thick head. Piney with a significant hit of bitterness and a bit of alcohol. Very dry finish with the bitterness lingering. I remember this being much better when I first had it, I may have a bad batch.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

(650mL bottle from LCBO) Pours a darker orange with a foamy off-white head which lingers and leaves a little lace. Aroma of toffee and caramel malts, fresh pine hops and a little citrus, all somewhat overpowered by a distinct alcohol note. Flavour is fairly complex caramel and honey malt flavours whose sweetness is cut by resiny pine bitterness and warming alcohol, meaning the beer finishes hot and dry. Mouthfeel is quite heavy and slick, with medium carbonation. A little too boozy and brash for a balanced DIPA but still tasty.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Smells floral, hoppy. Heavy alcohol almost makes it taste Belgian. High hoppy aftertaste smoothed out by the high alcohol. Malts come off a little sweet, but not too much. Heavy body, tasty beer. Big bottle.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Canada: Pours a bronze color with a whitish head. Aroma is sugar and citrus hops. Beer is quite hoppy and bitter towards the back, but the aftertaste is actually rather mellow. Plenty of sugar is to be had. There is definitely a bit of booze to be tasted here. A generic dIPA.

7

A hazed dark reddish amber DIPA with a thin big bubbled light mocha head. In aroma, sweet caramel malt with resinous dank hops, treacle. In mouth, a nice caramel malt with dark fruits, resinous hops, alcohol warmth, very nice. Bottle from lcbo, 2011.