7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled. Pours a clear amber. Smells of fruit malt and flowers. Taste is similarly malty side of ipa.

4.5

Over-hopped for my taste.

2.1

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 1 | Overall - 1

Bottle from total wine NC. Just a little darker than pale. Alarming sweet cloying volatile nose. First taste is also sweet cloying alky based thick viscous liquid. Warming sensations all the way down. Whew. Difficult weird bitter hop awareness. Thick mouthcoating furor. Impact of agitation. Grim unpleasant awkwardness. One big unfavorable scandal. So much so big so taste bud scandalous blasting. Finishes with a big hard enraptured intoxication that will not be soon forgot. Whew whew whew. Good thing I'm gittin a little buzzy near the end, makes me forget how fricken rude triple hops can be. This probably should be styled as a strong ale; JMHO or is that the effects of the euphoria setten in?

7

Mostly clear amber body small foamy white head. Resiny floral aroma. Resiny floral caramel flavor. Medium full body moderate carbonation. 8/3/8/4/15 3.8

7.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Grapefruit and tangerine. Pours golden with decent head. Some lime. Bittersweet finish with some booze, caramel. Bottle from mixed six.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Sampled from the tap at Republic. Pours a clear gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has resin, pine and sweet grains with a hint of flora underlying. Flavor has sweet grains and pine with citrus rind and flora.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Grapefruit and apricot nose, subtle pencil shavings note. Clear copper, medium head. Apricot, grapefruit. Full body, moderate carbonation, warm.

9.2

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Bottle from Whole Foods Market Fair Lakes Aroma: caramel, pine, citrus, resin Appearance: clear golden with a white head Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness, Palate: medium body, sticky, average carbonation, bitter finish Delicious

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Split a 22oz bottle. Poured a clear amber color with a medium sized, fluffy white head. Aroma was sweet caramel malts, some light chewy hops, touch of citrus. Booze. Flavor was light tropcial notes, some very light citrus. Lots of malts on this one, and it’s a bit boozy, but it is pretty smooth and avoids the alcohol burn that I’ve come to expect from most high alcohol Imperial IPAs.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2013, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Devils Backbone 16 Point Imperial IPA ].Unclear medium orange color with a average, open and frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, resin, orange - citrus, woody. Initial flavor is light heavy sweet and moderate to heavy bitter, finish flavor is light heavy sweet and heavy to harsh bitter with a long duration, woody, riped fruit, orange, dry. Late finish is very bitter ! Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20130815]