Pours a cloudy dark amber/brown. Nose is grapefruit, exotic fruits, mango and floral hops. Taste is dry pine and citrus with a pleasant malt balance.

Bottle shared with Doug at The Bayou
Appearance: Clear amber with a nice fluffy off-white head with good lacing in the glass
Aroma: Pine, grapefruit and earthy
Taste: Pine resin with a bitter finish
Very nice. I love these single hop IPA’s.

Bottle at Göteborg beer festival, 2010-04-23 Göteborg special Mikkeller tasting, orange sorbe colored head, orange peal, IPA, bitterness, full body, grapefruit

This beer is an interesting exercise in tasting a single hop variety, but it’s not really an incredible IPA on its own merits. It’s a dusky amber beer with an off-white head that leaves good lacing. The aroma is light caramel with a metallic note and the strong spruce-grapefruit rind flavor of the Cascade hop. The flavor is similar: a resiny, bitter and instantly recognizable hop flavor with a simple caramel malt backbone. I’m not usually one to say this, but I wish this IPA was a bit less bitter. It’s not horribly biting, but the hop flavors get a bit lost in the bitterness. On the other hand, that might just be the flavor of this strong, American hop varietal.

Bottle from De Bierkoning, Amsterdam. Poured a hazy orange with a medium white head. Aroma had the anticipated cascade with some fresh citrus notes. Flavour was perhaps not as in your face hoppy as might have been expected, but was very tasty nonetheless. Plenty of juicy citrus in there with some nice balancing malt in evidence. Crisp and very drinkable.

Bottle:Hazy, amber coloured, small but very stable off-white creamy layer; solid hoppy nose, sweet toasted malt and a subtle fruitiness underneath; very robust bitter-sweet flavour, medium to full bodied, quite soft MF; lingering, spicy hoppy finish, pleasantly balanced by sweet toasty and caramelly flavours. No hope without hops.........

Olive bottle, 33 cl, best before 2011, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savoured on November 5 2009; eye: copper, clear, minimal effervescence, voluminous beige head that falls and turns into an island of melting ice cream in the middle of a nice sheet, good lacing; nose: lots of resinous hops, “dirty socks”, light malt, orange, pine; mouth: lots of resinous hops, light “dirty socks”, light malt, pine, short and dry finale in resinous hops, lots of astringency, medium body, average carbonation, quite bitter; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille olive, 33 cl, meilleure avant 2011, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savourée le 5 novembre 2009; œil : dorée, claire, effervescence minime, mousse blanche crémeuse qui se transforme en un petit anneau, très légère dentelle; nez : beaucoup de houblon résineux, p’tit chausson, léger malt, orange, pin; bouche : beaucoup de houblon résineux, léger p’tit chausson, léger malt, pin, finale courte et sèche en houblon résineux, pas malt astringente, corps moyen, carbonatation moyenne, pas mal amère; en résumé : bien

11.2 fl oz bottle purchased at Lukas Liquors in Overland Park, Kansas. 08/01/11 printed on the cap. Poured into a Free State Willebecher. Pour is clearish orange copper with a big (3 inch) light tan head. A few bubbles rise to the surface. Head falls slowly, revealing a bunch of thick lacing. Aroma of caramel sweetness, mild resin bitterness, soft pear fruit notes. Nice fresh and engaging nose. Nothing aggressive, just really clean and inviting. Taste is very different from the nose - big grainy resin right away, along with a sappy juniper like harshness. The fruit is mildly sour and is towards the back. The aftertaste is more of the resin bitterness, with some dusty earthiness and a bright, almost black pepper twinge. Palate is medium, long mouth coating after taste. It was bizarre how much the nose varied from the taste of this. Still loving this experiment - I think I like this hop in Barley Wines, not so much stand alone IPA.