6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours orange amber with tan head. Nose and taste of thick caramel malt, grapefruit rind, dried citrus and oak. Thick malt body. Bitter caramel and grapefruit finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2013
at 10:01
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Amber beer with a dark cream head. Grapefruit and light vanilla aroma with light oak. Grapefruit and pine flavor with caramel and vanilla. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Pine and sweet malt linger with caramel, grapefruit, and oak.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2013
at 08:39
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft @ 13th Bistro Double IPA Festival, Hayward, CA. Pours a hazy golden color with a white head. Has a fruity malty toffee aroma with woody hoppy citrus hints. Fruity malty hoppy bitter citrus flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Mar 2013
at 06:49
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
Bottle. Pours with a hazed bronze hued body with a medium sized off-white head with some lace. Aroma... Probably the most diacetyl that I have smelled in a commercially produced beer in the last 9 months. Butterscotch, vanilla pudding, maple, and butter...yeah, just as appealing as it sounds in your 9% IPA. Flavors confirm that this will be a drain pour. Butter and Aunt Jemimah with citrus zest and more fake maple syrup. Sickly levels of diacetyl. Lively carbonation and slightly oily. 20 of the 22oz Poured down the drain. I honestly hope this is a packaging issue and they sort it out ASAP. More than willing to re-rate, but this was foul!
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2013
at 11:06
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
22oz bottle (dated 1/9/13) picked up at Texas Liquor
Appearance: Pours hazy golden with a big off-white head and thick lacing in the glass
Aroma: Citrus, sweet caramel and bready
Taste: Caramel, citrus, bready, pine resin that has a herbal notes
A nice solid IIPA.
Appearance: Pours hazy golden with a big off-white head and thick lacing in the glass
Aroma: Citrus, sweet caramel and bready
Taste: Caramel, citrus, bready, pine resin that has a herbal notes
A nice solid IIPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2013
at 18:47
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
On draft at Tap 25 in Livermore and enjoyed in the company of Livermore spokesman, ratebeer’s own, joeneugs. It pours clear copper with a tan head and sheet lacing. The aroma offers up some caramel malts and a bit of butterscotch rolling quickly into pine and citrus hop notes. The taste is similar as full firm citrus and pine hop flavor mix with equal levels of bitter resiny hops as well as caramel to butterscotch sweetened maltiness. So the malts seem almost diacetyl like blending with resiny hop bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Feb 2013
at 16:20
3.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
22oz bottle pours a clear orange with some white head. Buttery nose, diacetyl, caramel. Flavor is gross, sickly sweet, caramel, buttered popcorn. Overly sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2013
at 17:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours lemony gold dishwater with a creamy white head. Aroma of citrus/coriander. Maybe some clove. Med minus body. Flavor is clove/citrus/coriander. It’s clean and pleasant, and it’s just a little bit earthy. Which makes it better than most wits. I retract my thought as this began: why do they make this stuff? Good light start for the evening. Finishes spicy/citrus and dryish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2012
at 16:25
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours clear copper with a slight off-white head. Aroma is spicy/floral. Full bodied. Flavor is very floral/spice/citrus - definitely heading towards grapefruit. I’m also getting some butterscotch, so I think there’s diacetyl. Even with all the hop it’s a disturbing thing. There’s some wood astringency - probably oak. It is definitely NW bitter. Barring the oddity flavor this is one heck of a beer.
Tried
on 20 Dec 2012
at 16:31
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft. Straw beer with a white head. Light wheat and light spice aroma. Spice and wheat flavor. Medium-light bodied. Spice and wheat lingers.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Dec 2012
at 10:53