7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bomber from Sun Devil in Mesa, AZ. Dated Apr 07. Shame, but it is what it is. Hazy orange amber color with a frothy beige head. Lots of floral hop over some lightly roasted caramel. Medium body with frothy carbonation. Flavor is roasted caramel, moving to floral and citrus hop, then a burst of sweetness suggesting a barley wine, then some hop returns for balance. May not be super fresh, but it is still pretty tasty. Good drink.
Tried
on 16 Oct 2008
at 00:28
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle from Sun Devil in Mesa, AZ. Medium amber color with a frothy off-white/beige head. Aroma of citrus hop. Medium minus body with frithy (new word) carbonation (means fizzy/frothy). Flavor is lightly roasted caramel with citrus hop. It’s ok, but doesn’t ring my chimes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Oct 2008
at 23:51
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at GBBF08. Roasted and caramelly aroma. Clear amber colour, small white head. Good malty flavour with some caramel. Medium bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2008
at 18:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from GBBF 08. Clear copper, lasting thick ivory head. A fairly attractive aroma of subtle hop. Bit syrupy in mouth maybe. Some grapefruit on end. not very bitter on end. It’s alright, quite subtle as I say, nice sherbert.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2008
at 11:27
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Clear amber with medium off white head. Sweet aroma with caramel and hoppy notes. sweet flavor with caramel and malty notes ends sweet.
Tried
on 05 Aug 2008
at 18:18
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22oz bomber pours a slightly hazy, copper, orange with a sudsy white head that laced the glass beautifully. Aroma is very balanced mix of sweetness and citrus. Nose has cookie dough, caramel, and biscuits with grapefruits, pine, and lemon zest. Flavor was a lot more mild than I expected with plenty of sweet malts only mild citrus, lemons, flowers and oranges. Only a medium mouthfeel despite the heavy alcohol and some lasting bitterness. This would probably be a very good introduction for someone into IIPAs, it’s not overwhelming.
Tried
on 09 Jul 2008
at 18:42
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On tap Denver Airport Pours out a light gold topped with a white head. A nice sweet aroma. The tast was great some grain, wheat, and citrus. Very nice body a nice cream feeling.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jun 2008
at 10:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Small, whitish rim on (cold?) hazy orange beer. Grapey-, grapefruit-, lytchee- hopsnose. Very nice & floral, with a hint of ureum. Soft-sweet, and mild bitter, but extreme hoppy beer, a bit like cake with orange marmalade filling, and a bit of apricot and lytchee in the finish. Well bodied, very slick, some alcohol obvious. Very nice IIPA, not too overwhelming, certain balance. Many thanks to Eugene - shared with D & L
Tried
on 29 May 2008
at 15:10
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From l4lb. Pours clear copper with thin off white head. The aroma is mostly malty goodness followed by some pine hoppiness and grapefruit and orange rind. Nice tasting IIPA with some up from grapefruit and pine hop bitterness and malty chewy sweetness that carries deep into the after taste. Yummy tasting IIPA that nearly defines the style with its thickness and hoppiness but comes up short compared to the envelop pushing offerings in the style and the aroma lacks that extra enthusiasm I have come to expect. Still very enjoyable.
Tried
on 11 May 2008
at 21:33
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Courtesy of l4lb. Pours dark stout like with small mocha head. The aroma is initially sweet but then fades into dark roastiness and burnt malts. The taste is a bit thin with some malt roastiness, some burnt malts, vanilla, malt balls and more mildly roasted malts into the finish. It leaves a roasty malt to mild burnt malt flavor into the after taste accompanied by a little bit of caramel sweetness.
Tried
on 02 May 2008
at 21:21