Ghost Island Double IPA
Thimble Island Brewery in Branford, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.49
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Can, from the brewery. Pours clear dark orange/light amber with small frothy off-white head, malty aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter lightly piney orange peel taste, malty background, thin body, long medium bitter finish. Decent DIPA.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Blind Pig Pizza. Clear gold, white head. Tropical fruit, citrus, pine.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at Thimble Island, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out rich resinous hops, sticky caramel and biscuity malt. Flavour has a rather earthy hop character, with a thick bready malt base. A bit too earthy and seemingly stale for me, but it's okay.
CLW (17000) reviewed Ghost Island Double IPA from Thimble Island Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared by JCwattsrugger. Thanks John! A near clear Amber color, soapy head. Aroma is orange marmalade, toasted grain and mild citrus. Ok, over 100 IBU?? Perhaps not. Or it is old... (John feeding us old IPA's??) the backbone is very malty and borderline sweet. The hop flavor is muted. Old school IPA right here.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Jeremy. Hazy, fizzy orange golden, with skin of head. Orang-y aroma. Tangerine taste turns into dishwater. Kind of soapy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle. Pours out a hazy apricot topped with a white head. Nose is pine citrus earthy caramel malts. Taste is more of the pine citrus hops cardboard and earthy notes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
At the source: pours copper with a pretty creamy head. Aroma is malt and a good bit of citrus. I doubt this is over 100 IBUs like they say it is, as it is not all the bitter. Still it is very smooth. Hefty hoppiness. Pleasant malt backbone.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle pour into tulip glass. Aroma is fruit, resin, citrus, cheese. Appearance is slightly hazy copper with 3 finger-width foamy head with good retention, nice lacing and nice sparkle. Taste is mix of fruity sweetness and bitter. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with thin, creamy texture; average carbonation and pleasant mix of fruity sweet and bitter finish. Overall, aroma and taste are muted for such a difficult category to excel in.