Both Barrels Imperial IPA
Central City Brewers & Distillers (Red Racer) in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Collab with: Ninkasi Brewworks / Gigantic Brewing / Parallel 49 Brewing CompanyIPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production
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7.23
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask. Pours a hazy Amber with moderate head. Aromas of brown sugar, tropical fruit and malt extract. Flavors of dried marmalade, toffee, rubber, resin and toasted malts. Soft, smooth and full. Excellent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On cask at the Alibi Room, pours a hazy dark orange amber with a medium white head. Aroma brings out quite a bit of wood and resin - the wood dominates. Flavour is heavy on the resinous hops and wood, with a thick caramel malt backbone. On cask, this is very soft on the palate, which I don't think complements the notes that well. Not really my type of IIPA. Decent, but not great.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
2014-09-28, cask at Alibi Room, Vancouver, 10 oz, 8-5-8-5-17=43
Cloudy amber color with compact head. Nice aroma of sweet malt and peach jam, fruity. Good body, soft, a bit undercarbonated, moderately sweet, with toffee malt flavor, and a lot of fruits, oranges, hop resins. The aromatic components of the hop are stronger than the bitterness.
Excellent IIPA.
2014-09-12, cask at London Pub, Vancouver, probably brewed 2014.07.24, 8-4-8-5-17=42
Cloudy amber color with generous head. Solid DIPA, sweet but not syrupy, not cloying; the hops are mostly fruity, then also strongly resiny; the malts are chewy and a bit biscuity; good bitterness level; candi sugar, light sage; it has a wood character, but not exactly what I would identify as barrel aging. The flavor is better than the aroma.
Very good beer. Satisfying.