Conductor Double IPA
Steamworks Brewing Company (US) in Durango, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.38
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22 oz. bottle from Zinister, best before March 2008. Pour is clear orange-amber with visible carbonation bubbles and a nice 2 inch off white head. Aroma of sweet, wet, fruity hoppiness. Some maltiness in the nose also. Fainter, but present is some resin pine hops. Taste mirrors the aroma, with big fresh hoppy (orange) fruitiness, some malt in the backbone and a nice bitter pine hop finish. Palate is medium to thin. Drinkable IIPA, thanks Mike!
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
2009-05-29, blind tasting at Papsø’s, 8-5-8-5-17=43
Hazy copper color; medium head. Nice fruity American hops (Simcoe? Chinook?), ending bit resiny and earthy. Good caramel flavor, sweetish, missing the darker side, therefore more appreciated, with very good fruity hop (bitter oranges first, then tangerine and mango touch). Well balanced. Perfect mix of caramel sweetness and fruity hops, even if we start knowing this, therefore not original. Excellent.
2007-09-20, bottle at Stockholm Beer Festival 2007, 7-4-8-5-16=40
Hazy copper color. Medium hoppy aroma, resiny, sweet, very light cheese (Roquefort). Powerful, good mouthfeel, correctly sweet and strongly hopped, resiny. Excellent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled@SBWF 2007
Golden color with shade of amber. Cookies in the nose. Medium to full bodied. Malty, some grapefruit and sweetish (toffeish) flavors. Not overly hoppy, more like sugary malty. High ABV is not much shown.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled@SBWF2007. Amber colour, not much head. Aroma is really strong fruity hops along with some grassyness. Flavour is toffee, caramel, bigtime hops and overall quite pleasant.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival. Clear pale amber. Juicy grapefruit aroma. Soapy and perfumy with lots of cookie malt. Full bodied and full flavoured with long salty finish. Not the most complex of beers, but really good anyway.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(Bottle, Stockholm Beer Festival, 22 Sep 2007) Amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Fruity, hoppy nose with pine needles, resin and grapefruit. Fruity, generously hoppy taste with notes of grapefruit, pine needles and resin. Rather sweet with notes of marzipan, leading to a very hoppy, fruity finish. Ok, it’s a bit one dimensional, but still a lovely, hoppy IPA.