Most Excellent Stellar
Short's Brewing Company in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.15
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 oz bottle. Pours lighter amber with a fine particle haze and an off-white head. Tea-like aroma with pine, floral, citrus hops. Flavor is quite bitter (though maybe there are just too darn many NEIPAs bringing down the bitterness these days) floral, pine hops, grassy and citrusy. Tea-like to a point, and indeed bitter. Overall excellent indeed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 3/16/2018. Pours fairly hazy golden orange/amber color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky off white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, light pepper/pine, honey, caramel, toasted biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/fruity hops and dark/bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pineapple, apricot, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, light pepper, pine, honey, caramel, toasted biscuit, 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, apricot, mango, melon, citrus peel/rind, pepper, pine, honey, caramel, toasted biscuit, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops and dark/bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/sticky, and fairly resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great, Minimal warming alcohol for 9.5%. Overall this is a delicious DIPA. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops and dark/bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV with the modestly bitter/resinous/drying finish, not overly aggressive. Great Amarillo showcase as expected. Very juicy, dank, and earthy balanced hop complexity; nice sized bready malt backbone, with minimal residual sweetness from lingering bitter dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and impressive style example as expected. Did not like it as much as the base APA, but close.