Pliny the Younger
(has 13 batches)
Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Autumn|
Score
8.48
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Pliny the Younger, the man, was Pliny the Elder’s nephew and adopted son. They lived nearly 2,000 years ago! Pliny the Elder is our Double IPA, so we felt it was fitting to name our Triple IPA after his son. It is almost a true Triple IPA with triple the amount of hops as a regular I.P.A. That said, it is extremely difficult, time and space consuming, and very expensive to make. And that is why we don’t make it more often! This beer is very full-bodied with tons of hop character in the nose and throughout. It is also deceptively well-balanced and smooth.
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Sampled from tap. Clear golden color with white head. Aroma is intense hops, grapefruit, boozy. Taste is hop oils, grapefruit, grassy, quite some booze and residual sweetness. Bitter, slightly warming finish. Medium carbonation, oily mouthfeel, massive strong kick. Everything about this works - but Triple IPA is not exactly my style, which is why I don’t go completely crazy about this.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Feb 2017
at 06:08
9.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
Tap at SF Beer Week Opening Gala. Finally, the mother of the Whalezzz! Pours lear golden amber. Little head. Aroma is strong tropical fruit, pines, mango, light citrus, resin. Residual sweetness into a heavy body, late bitterness, not sticky, good to drink. Lingering sweet, yet still not sticky palate. Great balance, superb experience. Had this as my first beer, and it tasted like the Elder. Then after this I directly had the Elder, which was a soft simple IPA compared with this bomb. Worth the hype? Depends. I enjoyed the experience, but I don’t feel the need to take such an effort again.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Feb 2017
at 12:52
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 9
Growler at Peg’s Cycle BA Day, thanks to Sean who won the growler at a charity auction. Pours a clear gold with medium frothy white head that lasts. The aroma is strong dank, pine, tangerine, resin. Medium body, strong citrus, tangerine, dank, good balance, nice resin finish, very nice.
Tried
from Growler
on 22 Dec 2016
at 13:55
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Draft at the brewpub. Pours clear orange-gold with a slender, frothy white head. The nose has a lot of piney hops, pale bread, tangerine, light grass. Medium sweet flavor with some juicy melon, tangerine, light piney bitterness, peach, alcohol. Full bodied, lightly chewy, with fine to average carbonation. Warming finish, lightly resinous, with lots of juicy citrus fruits, tangerine, some grapefruit, nips of boosty alcohol, orange, mango, mellow bitter grass and citrus rind. Well, it’s very good, and very drinkable, but there are more expressive ’imperial’ IPAs out there nowadays. Still, I can appreciate that this is juicy and drinkable stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Feb 2016
at 13:19
9.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Keg at RR, Pliny The Younger release day ’16, 05/02/16. Clear golden with a decent off white covering. Nose is resinous pine, mango, citric peel, grapefruit, light caramel, trace skunky hop, floral balance ... xolid. Taste comprises bitter orange, straw, grapefruit, sticky hops, pine needle. Full bodied, fine carbonation with a slick resinous drift, semi aggressive hop bitterness in the close. Well balanced and nuanced.... Top draw DIPA.
Tried
on 05 Feb 2016
at 13:15
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Draught at Russian River. Clear deep golden liquid with medium off-white head. Aroma of tangerine, citrus, mango, pine, pineapple, light grain, light sweet malt and lychee. Taste is light sweet and medium bitter with notes of citrus, tangerine, light grain, pineapple and pine. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Very drinkable for the ABV. Great beer and worth waiting in line for. I have to say though, I prefer Elder as it is more drinkable and less malty. Still, a memory of a lifetime.
Tried
on 05 Feb 2016
at 13:12
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
[2/12/15] Draught at Russian River in Santa Rosa. 10.25%. Clear golden. Lovely hoppy aroma with lots of tropical fruits, citrus, pine and a tiny bit of alcohol. Flavor has some sweetish malt, fruity and piney hops, some alcohol and strong bitterness. Medium-bodied. Good but not great.
Tried
on 15 Mar 2015
at 20:18