2nd Anniversary: Dos Double IPA
Aztec Brewing Company in Vista, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.18
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22 oz. bottle, pours an opaque amber orange with a small beige head. Aroma is full of tropical fruits, resinous hops, and a solid caramel malt backbone. Flavour is well-balanced between the hops and malt, with loads of resinous hops, a big whopping caramel malt, and slight fruitiness. Very robust and hoppy, without any astringency. Wonderful IIPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Nov 2013
at 01:24
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
This is the Aztec 2nd Anniversary ale. Bomber from Bine & Vine. Pours amber/copper with a foamy/frothy beige head. Aroma is fruity/citrusy over some cooked/roasted malt. Full bodied or more so. Flavor is bitingly hoppy. Citrus/floral for the most part - but so much hop it’s difficult to parse. Strangely the hop burn is mild. So there’s a delicate touch here. Heat? Not even down the gullet. Seems to get more floral with time. There’s always some brown sugar, but it leaks away to let the hop back. (joke!). Really good DIPA.
Tried
on 10 Nov 2013
at 18:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
22oz bomber pours with a clear ruby red amber sort of colored body that supports a thin light tan head. The aroma offers up loads of pine hops mixed with red apple fruity esters, sweet malts, a touch of caramel and then some booze at the end of the draw. The taste starts with a rush of sweet malts, sweet dark fruity esters and loads of bitter and resiny pine hoppiness that is thinly rimmed with booziness. The slick malt sweetness grows to midway but the firm resiny pine hops just don’t give up much ground. This is a little too harsh and oddly too sweet to really enjoy.
Tried
on 24 Oct 2013
at 22:40