Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can thanks to Scrizz. Pours clear amber. Strong nose of hops and citrus as soon as can pops. Wow!. Nose/taste of hops, citrus, caramel malts. Dry pine finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Sampled as Red racer belgian triple at GCBF 2010 Hazy Golden lacing head Low on aroma Sparkly mf, medium body. Citric start Belgian yeast doesn’t quite come together
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sampled at GCBF '10, pours hazy yellow (odd for a Belgian Strong Ale) with a white head. Aroma and flavour of green apples, sweet fruits, yeast and citrus. Quite decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Courtesy of markwise. The can pours clear copper with nice tan head. The aroma has plenty of pine hops mixing with crystal malts and sweet malts. The taste is smooth malts and firm full pine hop goodness. These notes slide into the finish un-wavering. Very nice IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
can thanks to Savvy1982, your the man Kyle, thanks for this! Pours light orange with a tall frothy white head. Aroma is out of this world. Super pine hop and spruce with lots of grassy and dank notes. Flavor is super rich pale and toasted malts with a huge pine hop finish that again has lots of herbal, grassy, and cannibus notes. Awesome stuff....this is what I want in an IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
12 ounce can from Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a clear copper color with a medium white head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of citrus hops and a bit of toffee. The taste is bitter leafy, citrus hops with a bit of a tart finish and not enough malt to back it up. Medium bodied. Better than the pale, but still lacking.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
12 ounce can from Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a clear golden color with a medium offwhite head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of bitter citrus hops with some resin and chemical notes. The taste is pale bready malts with bitter citrus hops. Thin-medium bodied and just a touch watery. Not impressed at all.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Cans are cool. Very citrus and pine filled with some floral notes, too. Quite clean and refreshing. Has a nice bitterness through to the finish. Went great with my Chinese food.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
650mL bottle as Central City Imperial IPA, at 9.5% ABV, pours a hazy golden orange with a small off-white head. Aroma of loads of grapefruit, tropical fruits (mangos especially), boatloads of citrus hops and generous caramel malt to back. Flavour is remarkably well-balanced, with no shortage of palate-barraging citrus hops, mangos, pineapples, and a big caramel malt backbone. Well-balanced and still very hoppy, despite high residual sweetness. This beer has progressed impressively over the years. From memory, the tap version of this used to be quite astringent and unbalanced. Recent tap versions of this are pretty much identical to this bottle I'm rating now. Very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can at DC local tasting. Medium golden color, small white head that rapidly disappears. Aroma of grass. Taste has moderate bitterness, dry finish. Not very complex or interesting.