Double IPA

bottle pours dark orange with a medium light tan head. Aroma is pine and dank hops. Flavor is caramel and biscuit malts balanced nicely with a pine and grassy hop finish, mild alcohol. Very nice.

The beer pours a bright, hazy orange with yellow-gold highlights. The head is creamy with a hint of beige. The beer has a pretty weak aroma both for a DIPA and a beer of this size. It mostly has that persimmon/apricot/raisin smell of lots of light-ish malt that you normally find in strong pale Belgians. The hop aroma is very weak, just a smattering of floral/peach notes pushing through the heavy curtain of malt. The beer tastes fairly boozy, particularly as it warms. There are more hops evident, but they don’t contribute much more than some bland astringency and fail to reign in the sweet finish. There’s a good deal of malt sugars floating around in this one. Mouthfeel is thick and verges on syrupy, but it’s not too bad given the abv and sweetness. I can’t imagine drinking more than one bottle, but it’s not an awful beer, nor is it particularly hard to get through twelve ounces. Still, at 10% abv, there’s just so much more that could be done with this one. This beer is quite simple for the size and style.

Lately double IPAs have been making me happy and this one here is not an exception. I don’t know what it is about the combination of hops and high alcohol that I like so much... Basically pours a light bronze amber color with a frothy white head. Flowers and hops and flowery hops dominate the aroma. Taste you get the various different hops flavors manifested. Obviously, the flowery hops take center stage, but there are citrus and piny notes in there as well. Bready feel in the back of the beer. Rather hoppy, but doesn’t leave my mouth to dry. Well-balanced overall.

12 ounce bottle from Total Wine Triangle Plaza, Raleigh, NC. Pours a slightly hazy golden orange color with a medium head. Fair head retention and lacing. Hoppy floral and citrus hop aroma with a bit of nuttiness and caramel. Taste is toffee, caramel with citrus and floral hop notes. For a DIPA I would like more bitterness. Faint alcohol notes. Medium bodied. Decent beer.

Clear amber with a medium off white head. Loads of hops in the aroma along with caramel and and grapefruit. Flavour was quite hoppy with pine, caramel, lemons and grapefruit. Finished bitter.