To Hop and To Hold
Drafting Table Brewing Company in Wixom, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.29
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at DT. Pours a clear gold with a finger of off-white foam that lingers. Big punchy ruby red grapefruit aromas with light caramel, stone fruit and dank. Palate is similar. Well-balanced and ABV hidden well. Nice round mouthfeel with a drying, piney and grapefruit focused finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
16 ounce prowler into tulip glass, filled on 8/30/2019. Pours fairly hazy deep golden amber/light orange color with a 1 finger fairly dense and rocky off white head with great retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lasts. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big tangerine, red grapefruit, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, honeydew melon, berries, citrus peel/zest, wood, peppercorn, pine, honey, white bread dough, toasted biscuit, light caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and dark/bready malt notes; with big strength. Taste of big tangerine, red grapefruit, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, honeydew melon, berries, citrus peel/zest, wood, peppercorn, pine, honey, white bread dough, toasted biscuit, light caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, grass, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of tangerine, red grapefruit, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, honeydew melon, berries, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine, honey, white bread dough, toasted biscuit, light caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and dark/bready malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance, and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, fairly sticky, and lightly resinous/rindy mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 8.7%. Overall this an awesome DIPA. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/fairly earthy hops and dark/bready malt flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to drink for the big ABV, with the mellowly bitter/resinous/drying finish; awesome soft feel. Awesome Simcoe, Amarillo profile. Very juicy, vibrant, and fairly dank/earthy hops; with a nice sized malt backbone. Light residual sweetness with lingering resin dryness. A really enjoyable offering, and impressive Midwest style example.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at the brewery. Pours a clear gold with a white head. Juicy grapefruit and orange citrus hops in the aroma, pine. Flavor has juicy citrus grapefruit, some pine, a bit of pale malt, some floral hoppiness. More sweet than bitter, but far from being too sweet. Solid.