Shipwrecked Double IPA

Botella 33 cl tomada en Cimmeria en junio 2015. Lote ZBMISW1 hasta 01..2016. Doble Ipa con sabores maltosos dulces afrutados amargo final bueno. Bastante buena. 9.25 vol que se notan en todo momento. Habría que repetir de nuevo.

Bottle from Geers. Clear amber colour, white foam. Nose of caramel, honey, citrus and pineapple. Bitter hoppy finish. Well balanced. Good.

Bouteille 355ml. Ambrée, col moyen blanc-cassé. Arôme met en avant un agréable bouquet de pin, note d forêt, plaisant sur un rétro agrumes; pamplemousse avec une dominance marquée de pin. Palais est houblonné, ici aussi, fort présent, huileux, rappel de forêt, houblons Chinook ou Warrior? Herbacé prenant, malt caramel tirant sur le crystal.

Can - (Bishops Arms, Västerås) - Amber in colour. Pine, toffee and apricot in the aroma. Pine, sticky toffee, grapefruit, peach and apricot can be detected in the hoppy and slightly warming taste.

West Coast IIPA with thick and dense, regularly shaped, nicely lacing, pale beige white head and clear, pure orangey amber colour with very little fizz. Dank but gently hoppy and malty aroma of pink grapefruit, tangerine, cookies and even sweet butterscotch, orange peel, weed, cedar needles, almond, toasted bread, tamarillo, bourbon, blue cheese, walnut. ’Clean’ onset, some dried fruits, subtle hints of redcurrant and mango, soft carbo, smooth, slick and bit resiny mouthfeel, biscuity and lightly toasted sweetish maltiness, straightforwardly evolving into a long, dry, piney, spicy hop finish, deeply bittering as expected but not harshly so, and perhaps lacking some more ’ethereal’ flower or citrus qualities; malt sweetness and hop bitterness bond in the end, in balance, though I expected more hop character from a beer labeled as double IPA. A dash of warming, whisky-like alcohol rounds things off, unsurprisingly for a beer of this strength. I guess this bottle is just a bit too old for this particular style, surely this has more exotic hop fragrance when young. I can, of course, only rate it in this form, i.e. a decent, solid double IPA without any specifications distinguishing it from the many others I had. But I was in need of an IPA anyway so this works fine.

Smell of hops. Amber colour, white head. Aroma of hops, alcohol, some spruce. Medium bitter. Flat carbon, slightly oily texture.

Tap @ Craft & Draft. Hazy amber color. Stiff, rocky off white head, sticky. Aroma’s: resin, bitter, light malty sweet. Retronasal: bitter, resinous, sweet fruit. Flavor is reasonably mild, light sweet, moderate bitter. Medium bodied. Finishes resinous bitter, longlasting.