Dub'stash DIPA
Liquid Riot in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Oxbow Brewing CompanyIPA - Imperial / Double Regular
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Score
6.98
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Drake (22938) reviewed Dub'stash DIPA from Liquid Riot 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
LSAT Freedom Trip #135. Keg at Liquid Riot. Clear pale golden, large white head. Good retention. Aroma of tropical, piney hops, pale malt. The taste is tropical, piney hops, pale malt. Medium bodied, mild lingering bitterness.
Scopey (25061) reviewed Dub'stash DIPA from Liquid Riot 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap at the brewery. It pours pale orange with a small white head. The nose is soft, sticky orange, marmalade, peach, candy and some dankness. The taste is bitter orange, peach, apricot, resinous, boosty action, liqueur vibe and earth with a dry, zesty finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. A bit alcoholic, but not bad.
CLW (16720) reviewed Dub'stash DIPA from Liquid Riot 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draft at the source. Aroma comes off like all Mosaic hops. Scallions, onion, Danky weed, maybe light pine. Just lots of sticky dankness.
My favorite aspect of this brew is it drinks like a 6 or 7 percent beer. The alcohol is very well hidden. (I had to check the menu on the ABV because I wasn’t sure it was imperial) so very nicely done there. The malt bill balances the hops and really is pretty well balanced. The bitterness doesn’t linger but does not come off abrasive in any way. Very easy to drink for how big it is.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Dub'stash DIPA from Liquid Riot 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at Fog Bar, 8/1/15.
Interestingly, Liquid Riot gives no credit to Oxbow for this beer on their website and yet when I had it on draught, Fog Bar just called it Oxbow Dub’Stash...whatever.
Orange-copper liquid shows medium-high to high clarity with a small-to-medium-sized white head that shows good retention.
Fruits, clean, plastery yeast and light pine resin in the nose. It’s nicely dry, well-attenuated and there’s a good melange of fruity hops, citrusy hops and not too much heavy acidity (but some). Pretty straightforward and honestly, the best part for me was the clean, fresh, lightly rustic yeast character (or is it the water character?). Whatever the case, it’s definitely a big, juicy-hopped nose with no alcohol apparency nor flaws.
In the mouth, there’s some dry, crusty bread-like maltiness that is perhaps, a touch scratchy. Otherwise, marmalade, ruby red grapefruit and a good dose of lemony-floral hops are plastered all over the palate. Very dry and attenuated but with some light stickiness to the texture helping to soak up some of the bitterness. A bit too much orange/orange rind, tea-like bitterness on the finish for my tastes, but still very tasty and just incredibly clean and well-presented with perfect carbonation.