King Julius
Tree House Brewing Company in Charlton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
8.20
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King Julius is an American Double IPA brewed to be an exceptionally flavorful, juicy, and hop saturated beer without rough edges or abrasiveness. Its vivid citrus aromas give way to flavors of orange creamsicle, mango smoothie, and a bounty of fresh tropical fruit. We find it to be refined and delicate amid an onslaught of flavor. Originally brewed in 2012, King Julius is our endeavor to marry our past with what we aspire to be in the future.
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8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Can shared thanks to non Ratebeer friends. Very cloudy orange with a small off white head. Aroma of resinous hops, pine, tropical fruit, peach and light citrus. Flavour is above light sweet and above moderate bitter. Medium bodied with a juicy hop palate and soft carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Nov 2016
at 13:41
9/10
Tried
on 13 Oct 2016
at 19:40
8.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Pours a very cloudy, brownish-peach color with almost no head (seriously, this looks like a glass of peach juice or grapefruit juice). Intense tropical fruit and citrus aromas. Flavor is very fruity--tropical, mango, peach--with just a touch of sweetness. Very well-balanced, not even a hint of alcohol flavor. Finish is just slightly on the bitter side
Tried
on 24 Sep 2016
at 16:24
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample at EBF 2016 Hazy orange amber color. Huge juicy citrus tropical light earth and pine nose. Sweet bready malt big hop flavor mild hop bitterness. Another great beer from Tree house!
Tried
on 18 Feb 2016
at 17:04
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
draft - pours orange gold white head - nose/taste of orange peel, citrus, dry grass, cracker malt and fresh grapefruit - medium body
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Feb 2016
at 20:30
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500mL can, pours a cloudy golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of juiciness, citrus hops and just enough malt. Flavour is juicy as hell, with loads of citrus and dank hoppiness, with a big dry biscuity malt backbone. Wonderfully constructed with everything in the right proportion. Excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Feb 2016
at 13:31
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 oz can poured at Eugene’s. Much thanks to Diceman! Canned last week. Damn fresh. I love it. Cloudy orange pour with a patchy head. A ton of fruit aroma. Flavor is on the sweet side. A ton of mango, pineapple, and orange. Juicy. No way it’s that high in abv. Delicious.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Feb 2016
at 22:23
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
750mL growler filled and drunk 1/30/16.
Heavily hazy, though not soupy copper-orange-golden body is topped by a large white head that shows moderate-to-strong retention.
Big fruit juiciness in the nose is exactly reminiscent of Julius, with perhaps, a bit more maltiness. Honey, graham cracker and very light caramel match the pineapple, mango and easygoing tangerine citrus character. Clean, fresh and with no resin or obnoxious pine, as expected. No alcohol or flaws noted.
Extremely juicy, with tangerine, nectarine, lemon-lime and lots of sweet honey and bready maltiness. Very well-balanced, drinkable and with low-to-moderate carbonation that is mostly tight. At this point, like bytemesis says, it’s nothing revolutionary. Julius was definitely their masterpiece and I find their midrange IPAs to be a bit more focused, crisp and drinkable. Not that this is any slouch, but I’m not sure quite what the extra malt/hops/alcohol are accomplishing here. Just comes off a bit more sweet and juicier than Julius which is mostly unnecessary. 8/4/8/4/18
Canned 8/30/16, drunk 9/16/16. (I may be slightly off on the canning date, but it’s +/- 3 days of that.
Better aromatics than I remember, with a wonderfully lush, juicy, all-encompassing nose that adds light honey-like maltiness to the already soft, juicy, mango-lime-watermelon-pineapple notes. No alcohol or flaw.
In the mouth it’s pretty big and one of Tree House’s maltier, bigger DIPAs, to be sure, yet it’s hard to not love the incredibly juicy flavors. It’s close, in my book, between this and the regular version, but depending on mood, I can see reaching for one of these over the regular. Updated score reflects this recent can.
Heavily hazy, though not soupy copper-orange-golden body is topped by a large white head that shows moderate-to-strong retention.
Big fruit juiciness in the nose is exactly reminiscent of Julius, with perhaps, a bit more maltiness. Honey, graham cracker and very light caramel match the pineapple, mango and easygoing tangerine citrus character. Clean, fresh and with no resin or obnoxious pine, as expected. No alcohol or flaws noted.
Extremely juicy, with tangerine, nectarine, lemon-lime and lots of sweet honey and bready maltiness. Very well-balanced, drinkable and with low-to-moderate carbonation that is mostly tight. At this point, like bytemesis says, it’s nothing revolutionary. Julius was definitely their masterpiece and I find their midrange IPAs to be a bit more focused, crisp and drinkable. Not that this is any slouch, but I’m not sure quite what the extra malt/hops/alcohol are accomplishing here. Just comes off a bit more sweet and juicier than Julius which is mostly unnecessary. 8/4/8/4/18
Canned 8/30/16, drunk 9/16/16. (I may be slightly off on the canning date, but it’s +/- 3 days of that.
Better aromatics than I remember, with a wonderfully lush, juicy, all-encompassing nose that adds light honey-like maltiness to the already soft, juicy, mango-lime-watermelon-pineapple notes. No alcohol or flaw.
In the mouth it’s pretty big and one of Tree House’s maltier, bigger DIPAs, to be sure, yet it’s hard to not love the incredibly juicy flavors. It’s close, in my book, between this and the regular version, but depending on mood, I can see reaching for one of these over the regular. Updated score reflects this recent can.
Tried
from Growler
on 05 Feb 2016
at 11:22
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Can. Pours cloudy dirty orange juice, medium of white head, dissipates fairly quickly, some lacing. Aroma is tropical, juicy and dank, passionfruit, stonefruit. Flavor follows, light sweet, light bitter, super juicy, no hint of harshness, note of abv, for that matter. Medium body, thick creamy mouthfeel. This IPA would have blown up the world two years ago. Still great today, but facing some really solid competition.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jan 2016
at 22:09