Palate Shifter Imperial IPA
Captain Lawrence Brewing Company in Elmsford, New York, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.88
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask days 2016.
A good double ipa, nothing more to see here. Solid citrus, big fresh hop Cone punch in the aroma. With some big background pine. Malts are slightly bready with hints of yeast. Not awful, but pretty run of the mill when it comes to double ipas.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
From Jun 2008
I got a filled bottle of this from nutbrown. Thanks Alan!
It pours a hazy orange gold with about a finger head of foam. There's some nice lacing and it looks like the foam is going to stick around for a while. Yep, I'm near the end of my session and there's still a fine layer of foam.
The smell has notes of pine, caramel malt, and some citrus. That's a pretty balanced nose.
The taste starts off with some citrus and piney hops but there's the malt that I noted in the smell. Wow. Does it ever balance the hops nicely. And holy cow, the drinkability is right up there despite the ample abv. Heck, the only sign of it is just the slightest of warming after the swallow!
This is a full bodied DIPA and the carbonation is lightly done. It finishes dry, but not overly so, with a nice piney hop flavour that lingers on for some time. I really like how neither the hops nor the malt gets out of control. Again, balance.... it's what you'll get and if you like that sort of thing, which I certainly do, this is a must try for you. ;^)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
12 oz bottle from Leary’ Wine in Newburyport, MA. Cloudy yellow with some lasting head and legs of retention. Aroma as pine, floral, and notes of perfume. Taste follows with the perfume being a tad distracting.
Hop to malt ratio is pretty good. Decent balance. The alcohol is well hidden with bitterness not being over the top for 90 IBU.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at City Swiggers, Manhattan, New York, USA. A golden coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Hoppy, citrus, pine aroma. Tastes pretty much the same, hoppy, citrus, pine, some grapefruit. Pretty good but rather bitter.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a straw-color from a bottle, aroma of grapefruit and melon. Flavor similar, rather bitter toward the end. Okay beer.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5
Flarra från USA. Svag doft av jordkällare, apelsin, barr. Smakar apelsin, nektariner sen kommer rätt tydlig grape beska. Alkoholen ?? Märks INGET av. Typisk mycket bra västkust Dipa.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12 oz bottled 8/20/15 (from cooler), drunk 1/5/16.
Still trying to figure out if this is the new rendition of the prior, 16.9oz Captain’s Reserve Imperial IPA. Seems to have replaced that one and is 1% abv higher. Still looking in to whether it’s a new recipe but it certainly seems to be.
Good pour, creating a minimally hazy, golden body with a large a white head that is well-retained.
Juicy pine and tropical fruit notes in the nose are backed by a healthy dose of sweet, honeyish malts. It’s certainly not the new breed of heavily mosaic/galaxy/nelson imbued ipas, but the tropical fruit notes are enjoyable, if a bit short-lived due to too much pine and resin.
Heavy bitterness and a sweet maltiness somewhat clash, with a very dry, papery, bland note that gives way to moderately juicy tropical fruit notes. High, somewhat unfocused carbonation and light alcohol and resin give it a bit of a disjointed feel overall. Comes off a bit "industrial" or overproduced, if you will. Nowhere near as juicy and fresh as the older reserve imperial ipa. This one seems filtered and force carbonated.