El Dorado High
MadTree Brewing Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.14
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El Dorado, Azacca, and Mosaic hops morph together to create incredibly juicy, tropical hop flavors. They crash into your palate like the smooth undulations of the incoming tide. Sip back and enjoy the ride.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Big and chewy, with a equal amount of caramel sweetness and melon-berry hop juice, backed by bready lemon notes, finished off by cedar, pine, and resin. On the clumsy side; lacks subtlety. Okay.
Tried
on 07 Aug 2019
at 01:21
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 10/6/2018. Pours very hazy deep golden/amber/light orange color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky off white head with awesome retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice dense spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of tangerine, red grapefruit, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, papaya, red apple, mango, watermelon, guava, blueberry, citrus peel/rind, wood, mint, peppercorn, pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, light honey, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Slight booze in the aromas as it warms, but not overwhelming. A touch malty/muddy. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of big tangerine, red grapefruit, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, papaya, red apple, mango, watermelon, guava, blueberry, citrus peel/rind, wood, mint, peppercorn, pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, light honey, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of tangerine, red grapefruit, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, papaya, red apple, mango, watermelon, guava, blueberry, citrus peel/rind, wood, mint, peppercorn, pine, wheat, cracker, white bread dough, light honey, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and bready malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance, and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/sticky, and fairly resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Mild increasing warmth of 9.5% after the finish. Overall this is an excellent DIPA. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hops and bready malt flavors; very smooth and dangerously easy to drink for the ABV, with the mellowly bitter/resinous/drying finish, not aggressive. Awesome El Dorado, Azacca, and Mosaic profile. Very juicy and fairly dank/earthy hop complexity; with a great balanced wheat/malt backbone. Light residual sweetness with lingering dryness. Not overly sweet/heavy for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering, and well made style example.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Feb 2019
at 05:30
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12oz can pours out a crisp golden topped with a white head. Nose is light citrus hops and some floral notes. Taste is more of the nice sweet malts floral hops and some citrus.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jan 2019
at 07:08
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
12oz can from Tavour. Cloudy, dark golden with a nice creamy head. Light fruity aroma. Fruit gives way to hops on the taste, classic NW hoppiness. Fruit, tropical notes hang in the background. Bitterness lingers.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Dec 2018
at 03:28
7/10
100218. Mad thick. Laughably thick and creamy. Boozy bitter and slightly malty back. Upfront hop bomb.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Dec 2018
at 18:53
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Nice stone fruit fresh hop aroma balanced with wet grain and pale malt. The flavors are balanced between bitter and sweet with great carbonation to round it out.
Tried
on 23 Nov 2018
at 23:34
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 7
12 oz can from Tavour. Canned a month ago. Pours hazy golden with a thick off-white head with excellent retention. Aroma is pineapple, mango Mambas, cantaloupe, SweeTarts. Taste is highly bitter, kind of boozy, but not 9.5 boozy. Doesn't taste very fresh, even though it's by no means old. Perfect mouthfeel. Kind of underwhelming overall.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Nov 2018
at 01:36