Train Wreck Imperial APA
Rusty Rail Brewing Company in Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.04
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 12/14/2017. Pours moderately hazy/cloudy deep golden amber/light orange color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and rocky off white head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice thick soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of big grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, melon, gooseberry, citrus peel/rind, peppercorn, pine, toasted biscuit, light honey/caramel, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hop and moderate bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, melon, gooseberry, citrus peel/rind, peppercorn, pine, toasted biscuit, light honey/caramel, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, melon, gooseberry, citrus peel/rind, peppercorn, pine, toasted biscuit, light honey/caramel, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hop and moderate bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no lingering hop astringency after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and sticky/resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 7.7%. Overall this is an excellent DIPA! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/earthy hop and moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV with the modestly bitter/resinous/drying finish, not overly aggressive. Loved the Citra, Cascade, Simcoe showcase as expected. Awesome balance of juicy, vibrant, dank, and earthy hop complexity; nice bready malt backbone, with minimal residual sweetness from lingering dryness. A really enjoyable offering, and well made style example. Held up amazingly well for the age, but was likely refrigerated the whole time.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2018
at 00:35
2.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
Bottle. Slight aroma of BO. Eye is slight haze on pale. Taste is triple IPA with more bitterness than expected. A terribly double imperial IPA experience that is mouth coating bitter hops. Do you like giant pine needles with spruce sap covering a bed of green grapefruit rinds, never ending IPA over the top overwhelming impressions. Whew. Big nasty mouthful of mouth coating oily hops. Malt? What malts, false advertising! Over the top in bitter hops, brews like this give hoppy beers a bad name, for a lager lover.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2017
at 14:39
6/10
Tried
on 22 Jul 2017
at 13:32
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Sampled on draft this beer poured a bright golden color with a medium sized creamy white head that left good lacing. The aroma was somewhat bitter with fruit hops. The flavor was bitter and dry with vague fruity hops and a bit of grapefruit. Long finish. Medium body. Meh.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Apr 2017
at 20:34