Pallet Mallet
Al's of Hampden / Pizza Boy Brewing

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From:
Al's of Hampden / Pizza Boy Brewing
 
Pennsylvania, United States
Style:
Imperial IPA
ABV:
11.9%
Score:
90
Avg:
4.03 | pDev: 7.69%
Reviews:
6
Ratings:
44
Status:
Active
Rated:
Mar 16, 2021
Added:
May 07, 2013
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  3
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Ratings by stakem:
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Reviewed by stakem from Pennsylvania

4.17/5  rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Draft offering at Pizza Boy served in a tulip shaped pint glass. The brew appears a fairly clear amber orange color with a white cap that fades quick to a thin film. Some yellow clarity is seen around the edges.

The aroma is dank and piney with a huge hop character upfront. A bit of solvent alcohol is detected before the onset of some toasty grain that provides a subtle sweetness to the overall aromatics.

The flavor follows through with notes of bitter oily pine resin from the hops. An herbal to dank flavor hits mid-pallet before blending into rindy and pithy fruit flavors with an aftertaste that is a mix of candy-like sweetness and solvent alcohol.

This is a medium to fuller bodied brew with a modest amount of carbonation. Pizza Boy sure has a gauntlet of huge hoppy brews for hop heads to go crazy over. This brew gets style points for having a fun and fitting name but it's overall balance makes it less of a pallet destroyer when compared to say the Hopocalypse. Would drink again.
May 07, 2013
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Reviewed by JohnniEMc from Pennsylvania

3.84/5  rDev -4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Cracked open a pint can and poured it into a clear Imperial pint mug. The liquid is a bright amber, not clear, but closer to translucent than opaque. There's only a little lasting head upon completion of the pour. It smells malty and hoppy, but it's not pungent. There's a decent malt body which starts the taste off sweetly. As the transition to hop flavors begin, a blast of alcohol almost burns the tongue. Yes, no one should expect something with an 11.9 % ABV to have little taste of it. But, this is rough to the point that even a triple hopped beer with sufficient malt can't overcome it. Unfortunately, there's too little taste of the hops that can finally come through in the finish. Even there, the alcohol pushes the sweetness of the malt a little too far. People who enjoy whiskey or other spirits may have a taste for this, but this is probably not for those that just drink beer. This puts a mallet to a pallet, but it's mostly alcohol, not hops.
Mar 16, 2021
 
Rated: 4.05 by caahare from West Virginia

Sep 08, 2017
 
Rated: 4 by dfhhead25 from Pennsylvania

Jul 28, 2017
 
Rated: 4.06 by coz from Illinois

Jul 15, 2017
 
Rated: 3.94 by rodlavers from Maryland

Jun 11, 2017
 
Rated: 4.75 by Pensfan0782 from Pennsylvania

Jun 08, 2017
 
Rated: 3.75 by ejimhof from Pennsylvania

Jun 03, 2017
 
Rated: 3.3 by TTripp725 from Pennsylvania

Jun 02, 2017
 
Rated: 4.11 by Wizzle32 from Pennsylvania

Jun 02, 2017
 
Rated: 4.16 by hozersr from Pennsylvania

Jun 02, 2017
 
Rated: 4.12 by Wheels2532 from Pennsylvania

Jun 02, 2017
 
Rated: 4.16 by GreenMind from Pennsylvania

May 30, 2017
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Reviewed by SawDog505 from New Hampshire

4.08/5  rDev +1.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Poured into a 13 oz Weyerbacher tulip glass canned recently. Pours a very attractive dark amber with a 3 finger off white head that leaves behind streaks of lace.

Smell is apricot, caramel , biscuit, toffee, pine resin, and grapefruit rind.

Taste follows apricot, caramel, and toffee upfront leads to biscuit, pine, and grapefruit.

Mouthfeel is big, plenty of life, not really dry, and this is almost 12% ABV, never would have known.

Overall this is excellent, but DIPA no. Barleywine or Strong Ale would make more sense for me. Just as malty as hoppy.
May 27, 2017
 
Rated: 4 by heddar33 from Pennsylvania

May 27, 2017
 
Rated: 3.99 by Knapp85 from Pennsylvania

May 23, 2017
 
Rated: 4.12 by jzeilinger from Pennsylvania

May 23, 2017
 
Rated: 4.18 by reizorc from Pennsylvania

Apr 13, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by BEER88 from North Carolina

Nov 12, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by Joecaddie from Delaware

Feb 20, 2015
Pallet Mallet from Al's of Hampden / Pizza Boy Brewing
Beer rating: 90 out of 100 with 44 ratings