Champion Brewing Company ICBM Hazy Double IPA

ICBM Hazy Double IPA

 

Champion Brewing Company in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA - Triple New England / Hazy Regular Out of Production
Score
7.25
ABV: 10.0% IBU: - Ticks: 2
With a soft base of fluffy oats and wheat, and a massive double dry hop of Huell Melon, El Dorado, and Simcoe, this hazy DIPA is unbridled danger in a glass. Huge notes of honeydew melon, strawberry, candied pineapple, and sweet spruce crash the palate, unencumbered by bitterness.
 

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8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Super hazy golden coloured body with a very thin, large-bubbled tan head that doesn't leaves much nice looking on top, but the haze contributes to around ninety per cent opacity. Aroma of great orange juice, mangoes, melons, papaya and a lot of dry, peppery notes with a bunch of bitterness from the hops, a lot of citrus fruits and more sweetness in the nose than alcohol. Full-bodied; Very rich, super chewy malts come through, with a big dose of orange juice, mangoes and papaya with a clean, dry maltiness, a good deal of residual sugars from honey, resin and caster sugar with a slight astringency from all the alcohol. Aftertaste is very clean, remarkably fruity, but also super pungent, hoppy and thick - malty. Overall, this does a great job to provide bunches of malt to support great 'juicy' flavours from the hops, but also tropically, dry/peppery notes, all while being very drinkable at ten per cent! A great beer to sample for the style with a nice can/name - plus to have it locally is that much better! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Total Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 24-October-2020 for US$3,49, into the store on 30-September-2020, sampled at my house here in Washington on 24-February-2021.
Tried from Can on 15 Nov 2021 at 06:45

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Pint can from WW. Hazy to murky orange with a soft off-white head. Cat piss, orange peel, grapefruit, pine, honeydew, floral hops. Thick melon, orange peel, pineapple, mango, pine. Juicy, enjoyable. Would like to try the regular ICBM along side this, though my score on this one seems like it'll be much higher.
Tried from Can on 22 Sep 2020 at 23:16