Toppling Goliath Brewing Company Seismic Sue

Seismic Sue

 

Toppling Goliath Brewing Company in Decorah, Iowa, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Triple New England / Hazy Rotating
Score
7.67
ABV: 9.8% IBU: - Ticks: 49
A Triple IPA Version of our beloved Citra hopped pseudo sue smashed onto the scene with colossal nots of mango, orange and pineapple. Seismic Sue’s hop-forward bite will reverberate on your palate and finish with a grapefruit aroma creating a perfectly ferocious brew.
 

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8.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Pours a hazy, gold-pineapple-orange, with minimal head. Aroma is juicy citrus and tropical fruit. Flavor follows, with some pine. ABV is very well-hidden on this one, both in flavor and aroma (my can says 9.8%, not 11). Soft mouthfeel. Moderate hop bitterness through the finish. Very good.

Tried from Can from Haskell's - Maple Grove on 18 Dec 2024 at 22:51


7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pours unclear blonde. not much head. Scent is danky, full, creamy. Taste is full, dank, white pepper, hopspice, bit powdery as well.

Tried on 11 Nov 2024 at 07:07


7

Fresh, clean, fruity

Tried from Draft on 08 Nov 2024 at 15:09


7.4

Nice ipa. Great modernized top notch. Classic style definer. Billies craft beer fest 2024

Tried on 08 Nov 2024 at 15:05


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

Canned, 473 ml shared with Luka, MiroB, kajser27, Cvrle, JFK10000. Hazy orange with white head. Fruity, grapefruit, stone fruit, juicy, grapefruit. Nice nice bitter finish. Easy drinkable for the abv.

Tried from Can on 21 Nov 2023 at 05:56


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Small, irregular cream-coloured head, if rather stable for an Oud Bruin over reddish cola-coloured beer. Lactic acid, brown candi sugar, fruity esters, diary (lemonyoghurt with brown sugar?), raisins in diluted alcohol. Lactic acid, oak, oakleaf, wet oakwood, sorrel. Pretty hard acidity, buttermilk. Acidburn and -thinning, yet quite slick, even oily feel. Not very carbonated. Pretty decent Oud Bruin, but rather harsh, not mild.

Tried from Can at Café Pardaf on 06 Sep 2023 at 06:39


9

Tried from Can on 12 Aug 2023 at 12:55


8

Tried from Can on 20 Jul 2023 at 19:35


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

The ‘imperial’ version of Toppling Goliath’s Sue-themed NEIPAs, surfing on the success of their now legendary rare stouts but produced in a larger plant not far removed from the original microbrewery in Iowa. Off-white, thin and open, bubbly head, hazy yellow blonde robe with milky apricot hue. Rich and powerful, exotic nose of ripe papaya, mango juice, fresh fenugreek, granadilla, stale pomelo juice, sweat, overripe onions, starfruit, meringue, yellow kiwi, calvados. Sweet, juicy onset, mango, papaya, granadilla and pomelo, vague lime-ish edge perhaps, softish carb with full, fluffy body; doughy, muesli-like malt sweetness deeply soaked in dense, sultry, tropical hoppiness with thin citric edge, heaps of all that mango, papaya and granadilla returning, offering a little bit of end bitterness but very softly so, while calvados-like alcohol warms a tiny bit – but otherwise remains remarkably well hidden. Tropical hops continue for ages after swallowing. Sultry, ‘heavy’ but still very ‘sunny’ NEDIPA, of no lesser quality than the ‘originals’ from New England itself. Impressed, even if this is not my preferred style. Tops Pseudo Sue for me, if only barely.

Tried on 15 Jul 2023 at 22:49


8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9.5

Can at home in the garden, 13th July 2023. Pours a deep orange haze. Aroma is mango, grapefruit, citrus, marmalade. Taste is super fruity, pithy citrus, grapefruit, juicy mangoes, pineapple, great bitter grapefruit pith, with long linger. Fantastic triple IPA, which works given the bitter balance

Tried from Can on 13 Jul 2023 at 18:29