Blood Orange Imperial IPA
Freedom's Edge Brewing in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.89
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IT’S BACK! One of the most sought after beers we’ve ever brewed! This Imperial IPA casts a deep copper hue and is brewed with sweet orange peel and 42 pounds of blood orange purée, giving a strong citrus aroma and complex flavor, it’s no wonder this beer doesn’t stay on tap for very long!
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
On tap @ the new location in downtown Fort Collins. Pours a dark orange apearance with a tan head. Spicy resiny hoppy, orange citrusy aroma. A little goopy. Grapefruit citrus flavor. Kind of syrupy. Moderately sweet and bitter. Pretty balanced. Not bad. 8.5%
Tried
from Draft
on 09 May 2014
at 18:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
22oz bottle (red wax, why?) picked up at the brewery
Pours clear golden/copper with a huge off-white head and good lacing. Aroma of oranges, biscuity and citrus. Flavors of oranges, bready, caramel and bitter citrus
This was OK. I like a IIPA that is not sweet and doesn’t have tons of caramel malts, which this delivers. But I didn’t enjoy the oranges in the taste. I did like it more as it warmed up.
Pours clear golden/copper with a huge off-white head and good lacing. Aroma of oranges, biscuity and citrus. Flavors of oranges, bready, caramel and bitter citrus
This was OK. I like a IIPA that is not sweet and doesn’t have tons of caramel malts, which this delivers. But I didn’t enjoy the oranges in the taste. I did like it more as it warmed up.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2013
at 17:30
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Red waxed 22 oz bottle, not dated.
A- a clear gold-red colour, with about a 1 inch head of foam and is good with the lacing
A- a pretty strong aroma of oranges, light biscuit, some light citrus. good smelling brew.
T- orange up front, then it becomes decidedly bitter as in grapefruit bitterness. What a punch. My palate is getting used to it now...slight malt presence, maybe biscuit? Hard to tell because of the rather intense hop notes. It finishes like it starts with that orange flavour that seems to intensify as the beer warms up. My bad, i pulled this straight from the fridge.
P- kind of light bodied for the style but with the mediumish carbonation, I find that combo works just fine.
O- I couldn’t find any info on the abv but there’s little sign of the alcohol and I’m half way through.
Now finishing up and I have to say, this is a fun beer to drink. Pretty refreshing after mowing the lawn and now just sitting here, in front of the laptop, taking the last few sips.
A bit on the dear side cost wise, +$11 a bottle, i don’t regret buying the 2 bottles and I’ll probably buy more. Oops, a hint of the alcohol just now hit me. lol.
A- a clear gold-red colour, with about a 1 inch head of foam and is good with the lacing
A- a pretty strong aroma of oranges, light biscuit, some light citrus. good smelling brew.
T- orange up front, then it becomes decidedly bitter as in grapefruit bitterness. What a punch. My palate is getting used to it now...slight malt presence, maybe biscuit? Hard to tell because of the rather intense hop notes. It finishes like it starts with that orange flavour that seems to intensify as the beer warms up. My bad, i pulled this straight from the fridge.
P- kind of light bodied for the style but with the mediumish carbonation, I find that combo works just fine.
O- I couldn’t find any info on the abv but there’s little sign of the alcohol and I’m half way through.
Now finishing up and I have to say, this is a fun beer to drink. Pretty refreshing after mowing the lawn and now just sitting here, in front of the laptop, taking the last few sips.
A bit on the dear side cost wise, +$11 a bottle, i don’t regret buying the 2 bottles and I’ll probably buy more. Oops, a hint of the alcohol just now hit me. lol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2013
at 10:29