Hellacious Rock
Short's Brewing Company in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.08
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Double American India Pale Ale
An American Double India Pale Ale with bold floral hop aromas of citrus peel and pine. A sizable malt sweetness allows for a balanced presentation of abundant hop flavors, most notably those of sharp grapefruit and fruity berries. The finish is mostly clean with a perfect resiny bitterness, that lingers, but doesn’t overwhelm the palate.
An American Double India Pale Ale with bold floral hop aromas of citrus peel and pine. A sizable malt sweetness allows for a balanced presentation of abundant hop flavors, most notably those of sharp grapefruit and fruity berries. The finish is mostly clean with a perfect resiny bitterness, that lingers, but doesn’t overwhelm the palate.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Shakespeare's in Kalamazoo
Pours hazy orange with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Aroma is fruity and citrus. Flavor is fruity, grapefruit and zesty
Good
Pours hazy orange with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Aroma is fruity and citrus. Flavor is fruity, grapefruit and zesty
Good
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Feb 2018
at 01:47
8/10
Tried
on 21 Dec 2017
at 20:52
7.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 oz bottle. Pours a deep golden with a whole lot of particles floating around. White head. Citrusy grapefruit aroma. Flavor is also mainly of grapefruit, floral, fairly bitter and fairly dry. Decent, but doesn't look so good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2017
at 23:59
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 10/23/2017. Pours moderately cloudy medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky off white head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of huge grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, papaya, mango, melon, guava, berry, lemon/orange peel, citrus rind, light pepper, pine, honey, lightly toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical/piney hops and moderate bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of huge grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, papaya, mango, melon, guava, berry, lemon/orange peel, citrus rind, light pepper, pine, honey, lightly toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Moderate pine, citrus peel, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, papaya, mango, melon, guava, berry, lemon/orange rind, pepper, pine, honey, lightly toasted bread, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/piney hops and moderate bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero lingering hop astringency after the finish. Moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, bready/grainy/sticky, and fairly resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 8.7%. Overall this is an awesome DIPA! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical/piney hops and moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV; even with an increasingly bitter/resinous/drying finish. Amazingly dank, vibrant, and fairly juicy hops; great malt backbone, with no residual sweetness. A really enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2017
at 19:39