Hop Head Switch Double IPA
Michigan Brewing Company in Webberville, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Triple Regular|
Score
7.06
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Nice surprise on draft at MBC-Lansing, fall 2011. Nice balance of hoppiness; high ABV is smooth on the palate. Good from the first sip through the last.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewery. Hazy medium orange body, medium buff head. Sharp citrusy, piney aroma with potent boozy alcohol. Over-the-top, sharp, syrupy-sweet body with slick, resiny grapefruity and piney hops backed by thick, caramely, sugary malt. Prominent alcohol. Long bitter finish with lingering residual sugars. I found this hard to drink. Definitely one of the most potent, brash Double IPAs.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle, picked up from brewery (no label, but named Imperial IPA). Body is a nice copper color with a small and frothy head. Aromas are of citrus hops and a little touch of pine. Flavor is bitterly hoppy... grapefruit and pine... that give way to a caramel malt presence that seems just a bit underpowered for all of the hops. Alcohol is obvious and little attempt is made to hide it. There is a bit of a peppery edge to this beer as well. An interesting contrast to some of the very malt heavy Californian IPA’s in that the malt is there and gives a nice thick mouthfeel, but the hops still never disappear from the limelight.