Russian River Brewing Company Pliny the Elder Double Dry-Hopped

Pliny the Elder Double Dry-Hopped

 

Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Imperial / Double Regular
Score
8.15
ABV: 8.0% IBU: 100 Ticks: 43
A new beer for a New Year! We know many of you were sad when Pliny the Elder did not win the election in 2020 and faded off into the sunset. So we decided to revive the P4P recipe with a few modifications and created Double Dry-Hopped Pliny in a can for the first time ever! Don't worry, this will be the first of many tasty batches. DDH Pliny will be sticking around for a while! Cheers!
 

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6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

On tap @Bottlecraft in Little Italy. Not quite clear, pale to medium gold, sticky lace. Onion & forest floor, little skunk. Taste is gentle, toasty, onions hops & orange water. Low perceived bitterness, mellow pith, onion sweetness. Frothy, low acid, mellow bitterness, quite juicy. Rather familiar & just okay. Rather have the OG.

Tried from Draft on 17 Dec 2022 at 02:29


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Hollingshead draught, 12/9/22. Clear bronze-brass-golden. Small, white head to ring. Nose is sweaty with some pine and light citrus. Lots of mineral, earth, light toasted malt and various American hop notes ranging from pine to sweaty spice. Clean, no booze, no resin, no unwanted hop stink. Soft, juicy, not all that unlike Kern River Citra, tbh. Neither too juicy nor intense, with more biscuit, sweat, light pine and green spice. I still don't love PtE, but I like this sweaty DDH treatment. Soft, chewy, malty, dry.

Tried from Can on 10 Dec 2022 at 00:33


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Burk från staterna. Ljusguldig, en gnutta disig, med vit krona. Kexig, mjukt maltig, som en något mjukare och mer rundad Pliny. Men gillar nog the real experience snäppet mer. Fortfarande gott.

Tried on 05 Dec 2021 at 21:48


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

16 ounce can from Windsor brewery. Honey gold pour. Small frothy white head. Earthy malt aroma has notes of resiny pine and dank citrus. Flavor upfront is big bitter citrus. Notes of grapefruit, gooseberry and bitter lemon. Dank and hoppy, as expected. Remarkably smooth on the palate for such a hop centric brew. Piney, peppery hop finish. Outstanding!

Tried from Can on 04 Dec 2021 at 04:01


8.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

16 oz. can, 3 weeks old, courtesy of Phill (thanks so much man!), pours a clear pale golden blonde with a small white head. Compared to regular Pliny, the nose is more pungent, with oodles of piney hops, light resinous oils, and crisp biscuity malt. Flavour is still rather delicate like regular Pliny compared to more modern IIPAs, but the piney hop pungence is more powerful; there's an oilier mouthfeel, and just a touch more sweetness from the hops. More forceful, bitter finish, but still impeccably well-balanced. Lovely.

Tried from Can on 22 Nov 2021 at 04:36


8.5

Canned 28 oct 2021. Near clear yellow, plenty of white head. Hoppy and oldschool, but a tad more modern than dinosaur IBU bombs. The hopping adds aroma, lovely bit of fruityness, some pine and a few twigs of grass. Still west coast.

Tried from Can on 19 Nov 2021 at 23:00


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

On tap at Fathom Bistro. Pours golden with medium white head leaving sticky lacing. The aroma is dank and grapefruit. Medium body, dank, orange zest, grapefruit, nice lingering resin bitterness, enjoyed this.

Tried from Draft on 30 Oct 2021 at 22:19


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Canned, ENORMOUS thanks Mowbeer for bringing this. Ryan, you ROCK! So... hooh... great expectations... and delivery from the US... What's it like? Well, not a 4.33 in the shape we got to try it I'm afraid, but still damn good. Huge aroma, sweetish, pineapple and peach. Dry taste, pineapples, peachs, herbal notes, ending with a big bitterness. Maybe not 100% in perfect shape, still an excellent beer by all means!

Tried from Can on 20 Sep 2021 at 09:32


8.9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Can. Pours clear golden, merlin creamy white head, good lacing. Aroma is huge resinous hops, pine, grapefruit, mango, dankness. Flavor is light plus sweet, medium bitter, sticky resin. Medium body.

Tried from Can on 28 Jul 2021 at 01:15


8.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Thank you for sharing this can Chris - Golden with a white head - Good fruity and herbal hop aroma - Malt body with a good fruity hop flavour that olso has some herbal notes and good bitterness - The good hop flavours goes into a long finish with good bitterness - This was well balanced and a real treat

Tried from Can on 30 May 2021 at 19:16