Pliny the Younger
Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Rotating|
Score
8.50
|
|
Sign up to add a tick or review
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Poured from the tap. Slightly hazy golden with white head. OMG! Worth the search!
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Hop forward, backward, upstairs, downstairs and aroundstairs. Evergreen and citrus aroma moves into your nose and takes over. Taste is spice and hop and is well balanced. Long lasting hop finish. Looks fine too with white head.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
10 oz pour on tap at Blue Palms Brewhouse (unfortunately, it kicked later than night so no more--maybe next year!). Appearance is lightly hazy yellow with nice sparkle, thin cap of white head with fair retention and trace leggy lacing. Aroma is strong pine, grapefruit, citrus. Taste is strong grapefruit, pine, lighter tropical fruit and citrus. Palate is medium bodied with smooth, thick texture, soft carbonation and fairly dry, crisp finish as taste, dominated by a pleasant grapefruit/piney bitterness. Overall, very, very nice. Bold aroma and flavor but not quite as complex as Elder. It's no wonder these two have received the iconic status they have, given how long they have been around (Elder added '01, Younger '05). They still stand up and obviously paved the way for more flavorful, juicy IPA's but must have been truly revolutionary back in the day.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
Maybe it's that I've sampled a few different TIPAs of varying quality over the past few weeks, maybe it's that I've been sitting in my basement in southeast Tennessee sipping Younger and feeling extra special, but goddamn if this beer isn't the platonic ideal of what a massive, gargantuan India Pale Ale should be. Enormous amounts of citrus on the nose, yet the fruit only forms part of the taste, instead allowing plenty of room for deep, herbaceous pine and hints of berry and resin, with a modest but sturdy malt backbone and clingy bitterness on the finish. Amazing. Balanced, full, and gentle despite the whopping ABV. So friggin' good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Handbottled sample shared during MBCC pizza break. Thank you Mykel! Hazy burnt orange pour with a small creamy offwhite head. Pine, grass, caramel and a hint of tropical fruits in the nose. Some alcohol and as expected from the way this was brought to us some oxidation. Sweet and heavy bitter taste. Solid round, astringent and tiny boozy mouthfeel. while not in the best shape it's obvious this is a very good beer fresh. Happy to have the tick but will still try to make the trip to try this fresh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Stood in line, being alone jumped me up a bit. Small, bright golden pour, small, scant head. Piney, hoppy aroma, flavor blossoms with resinous hoppy bitterness, ABV comes in late with a wallop. First sip was meh, but it gets better with each one. Scratch this off the bucket list.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft pour to take out ;) pours out golden nose is sweet dank hops plenty caramel. Taste is more of the caramel malt sweetness and some dank hops.