July 13, 2005 - #4 of 365
Brewer: Rogue Ales (Oregon, USA)
Beer: I2PA
Style: Double India Pale Ale
abv: 8.4%
Background: In a 750 mL ceramic flip-top bottle from The Virginia Touch.
Appearance: Hazy orange with a large-bubbled, quickly disappearing one-finger head.
Aroma: Could smell it as soon as I opened the bottle. Huge nose of grassy and piney hops backed by citrus and very faint biscuity malts. Apricots and oranges can also be detected. Alcohol is present, as well, but doesn’t detract.
Flavor: Slightly hot on the tip of the tongue. An immediate hop bitterness is balanced somewhat, but the end is all grass and pine and lemon and stays on the back corners of the tongue for ages. Very grassy aftertaste. A little alcohol can be tasted if the beer’s left in the mouth long enough.
Notes: Very nice Double IPA. Not as well-balanced or creamy as Three Floyds Dreadnaught, but still a world-class beer. I’d like to see a Double IPA fermented with a fruitier yeast, maybe even a Belgian strain. The quasi-fruity hop resins may match well with the right yeast esters. I think I know my next homebrew project.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Beer: I2PA
Style: Double India Pale Ale
abv: 8.4%
Background: In a 750 mL ceramic flip-top bottle from The Virginia Touch.
Appearance: Hazy orange with a large-bubbled, quickly disappearing one-finger head.
Aroma: Could smell it as soon as I opened the bottle. Huge nose of grassy and piney hops backed by citrus and very faint biscuity malts. Apricots and oranges can also be detected. Alcohol is present, as well, but doesn’t detract.
Flavor: Slightly hot on the tip of the tongue. An immediate hop bitterness is balanced somewhat, but the end is all grass and pine and lemon and stays on the back corners of the tongue for ages. Very grassy aftertaste. A little alcohol can be tasted if the beer’s left in the mouth long enough.
Notes: Very nice Double IPA. Not as well-balanced or creamy as Three Floyds Dreadnaught, but still a world-class beer. I’d like to see a Double IPA fermented with a fruitier yeast, maybe even a Belgian strain. The quasi-fruity hop resins may match well with the right yeast esters. I think I know my next homebrew project.
Rating: 4 out of 5
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