750 ml bottle supplied by T.J, much thanks Chalumeaux! Deep brown / black color, no head. Aroma is grapes, Chocolate, raisins, and light wood.

The wine barrel did add a layer of complexity. If added a blackberry, red grape, current hints. The body is medium plus with the alcohol totally hidden. However, it is an aged bottle. Still real nice.

16oz can shared by beerbeggar. Clear dull gold color. Surface covering lacing. I usually would hate this hop combo. But maybe I hate how Seattle uses these hops? Aroma is all hops, low bitterness and bursty and juicy with orange rind and other light tropical fruit. A bit of light pine sneaking in, which I like less. Flavor is just less juicy and bursty with a little pine tree. A little slick malt and a little slick mouthfeel. Another DIPA tick that berko hasn’t had.

Draught at Ginger Man, 8/2/16.
Medium-high clarity in this copper-golden body. White head atop is rocky and shows moderate retention.
Smells full of citrus, earth, tea, pine and odd, grainy, almost dirty notes. Maybe this has been on tap too long? Nothing smells bright or particularly juicy, being rather earthy and dull and full of wet leaves.
The flavor has a low, loose carbonation, with grainy-dirty malt and yeast notes. If this was a juice bomb, the juice has certainly faded heavily, leaving bitter tea, old herbs and grapefruit-pine in its place.

Tap taster pour at Craft Beer Race New Haven. Appearance is clear dark yellow with thin ring of white head with fair lacing and sparkle. Aroma is dank resin, herbs, pine. Taste is more pine than in aroma, resin, citrus. Palate is medium bodied with slick texture, soft-to-average carbonation, finish as taste. Overall, nice mix of strong flavors. Good DIPA.

Draught at the brewery, 6/4/16.
Golden body with some warm peach and beige tones. Light haziness with a small white head showing average retention.
Pine, wood, cherry, pineapple and white grapefruit mix to give a rather aggressive yet juice-tinted aroma. Light honey and bread crust behind it balamcing somewhat. Can’t really get past the pine and stewed hops but there is some redeeming juiciness. Light alcohol sharpness, as well.
Bitter, piney and with dry, rather sharp, pineapple and white grapefruit. Hard texture needs significantly more maltiness. Lots of stewed hop, resin, astringency, alcohol. Would never have guessed this was nelson hop and theyve really killed the subtleties. Some redeeming qualities but alot of issues. May be done with Beer’d.

Draught at the brewery, 6/4/16.
Glassy, copper-beige-golden body has an off white head atop that is immediately re eding to nothing.
Odd mix of floral, spicy and estery notes in the nose with light perfume and lots of malt apparency. Graham cracker, honey, hay and bread all in some form with some bare, vegetal hop notes that can barely even muster a dose of pine and grapefruit. On the plus side, the blood oranges arent overdone (barely perceptible).
More graham cracker-like malt notes and accompanying texture in the mouth with moderate to moderately strong attenuation. Citrus is light from the hops and finally by the end of the pint, I can pinpoint the blood oranges, for whatevet thats worth. Hard texture with low, rather loose/fizzy carbonation. Bit of alcohol sharpness.

Draught at 5 Horse Somerville, 5/15/16.
Mildly hazy, bright orange-copper body is topped by a small amount of white head showing moderate retention.
Nose is initially very dense and full of dank, spicy notes, but plentiful red and yellow fruits. With warming and breathing, significant grapefruit, light pineapple and tons of lime emerges, though there’s some sour-ish resin on the end that’s not overly appealing. Malts reveal a bit of caramel and light bread but are otherwise fairly relaxed. Maybe a hint of alcohol.
The flavor shows plenty of juiciness; pineapple, cherry, mango but big, bready, sourdough-like notes emerge, a combination of malt and pine-like resin. Some alcohol apparent, sapping the texture, which is lightly slick and not all that softly-malted (very low carbonation). The juiciness is nice, but it’s no match for the pine/grapefruit and heavy breadiness. Not a great intro to this brewery....

Cask at GBBF 2015, Olympia, London. A golden/amber coloured pour with a thin white head on top. Sweet, hoppy, malty aroma. Tastes similar, hoppy, sweet, malty, tropical fruit, dank. Very nice DIPA.