Final Frontier IIPA
To Øl

Final Frontier IIPAFinal Frontier IIPA
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From:
To Øl
 
Denmark
Style:
Imperial IPA
ABV:
9%
Score:
86
Avg:
3.81 | pDev: 11.55%
Reviews:
26
Ratings:
96
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Apr 24, 2017
Added:
Nov 06, 2011
Wants:
  6
Gots:
  8
This is it! The sequel to the hop success of First Frontier. This beer is the final in every way. We recommend it as the final of your evening! This is an extremely potent and yet well balanced Double India Pale Ale. This beer is well suited in extreme environments, whether it be Siberian winter, Volcano eruptions on Java, Danish earthquakes (They exist!) or rush hour. This beer is seeking out frontiers and built for the test.

Ingredients: Water, barley malt, flaked oats, Hops (Simcoe, Centennial, Columbus) and yeast.

Brewed at De Proef Brouwerij, Lochristi-Hijfte, Belgium
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Ratings by Hopdaemon39:
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Reviewed by Hopdaemon39 from New York

3.13/5  rDev -17.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
Poured from an 11.2 oz bottle into a tulip- pours a slightly hazy bright amber color with barely any head after a vigorous pour (started slowly to find nothing developing). Leaves a little bit of lacing.

Smell is not what I'm used to from DIPA- very malty, subtle pine hop notes, a hint of booze. I like a bit blast of hops to the face. Not bad, a pleasing scent, but not my idea of the style.

Taste is consistent with smell but hops are a little bit more balanced with malt. Still, very low bitterness, very malty and rich, some pine hop stickiness, a touch of warmth from the alcohol. Again, not my idea of the style.

Mouthfeel is nice- medium bodied, chewy, with moderate carbonation. This is an enjoyable beer but in no way lives up to my idea of the style- there should but a lot more hops in the nose and more bitterness and abundance of hop flavor. Sadly lacking in these characteristics.
Jun 07, 2012
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.79 by Pens1967 from Louisiana

Apr 24, 2017
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Reviewed by FLima from Brazil

3.67/5  rDev -3.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Hazy amber orange color with a thick beige head with excellent retention and leaving laces.
Aroma with notes of caramel, some pine, lychees and grapefruit. Below expectations.
Flavor with notes of grapefruit, toasted and caramel malts, pine, hint of booze, candy, oat and lots of resin and tangerine. Quite dry aftertaste with a long lasting bitterness.
Medium body with appropriated carbonation. A bit sticky. Alcohol of 9% is felt but not harsh.
Potent American DIPA, very resiny, but a bit overdone with the caramel malt. Assertive, definitely not complex.
Oct 08, 2016
 
Rated: 3.82 by Beervana from Canada (BC)

Aug 20, 2016
 
Rated: 3.92 by HopBelT from Belgium

Apr 10, 2016
 
Rated: 3.95 by Kenmac19 from Canada (BC)

Feb 12, 2016
 
Rated: 3.88 by BrazilianAussie from Brazil

Jan 09, 2016
 
Rated: 4.19 by Fabianno from Brazil

Oct 18, 2015
 
Rated: 4.19 by mytu420 from Romania

Oct 07, 2015
 
Rated: 3.71 by dcmchew from Romania

Sep 30, 2015
 
Rated: 3.98 by hozersr from Pennsylvania

Sep 29, 2015
 
Rated: 4.01 by AFchino from Ohio

Sep 03, 2015
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

4.12/5  rDev +8.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
330ml bottle - we've had the First and the Southern Frontier, now comes the Final - how Star Trekkish!

This beer pours a mostly clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two chubby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some splendid cobwebbed lace around the glass as it gently subsides.

It smells of bready, lightly pastry-like caramel malt, muddled orange and grapefruit citrus peel, a decent tropical fruitiness, Pez candies, and further leafy, piney, and well-perfumed hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy caramel malt, a bit of biscuity toffee, some hard water chalkiness, mixed and matched domestic and tropical fruit esters, and more sort of robust piney, leafy, weedy, and now faintly booze-tinged hops.

The carbonation is fairly tame in intensity, but more upbeat in its playful frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and more or less smooth, both the hops and shy-ass alcohol taking a pass on ruining our day at this point in time. It finishes off-dry, the malt still keepin' it real, while the various hops kick their virtual cans about, and the booze, well, we're starting to get a little worried about it, not calling home, and all that.

Wow, a pretty heady, and yet eminently enjoyable version of the style - I'm getting all the metrics I expect (sturdy base malt, Choose Your Own Adventure hops), some I don't (the Vermont-evocative chalky thing), and all under the non-existent umbrella of an elevated ABV. Yup, this is some good, good stuff.
Aug 14, 2015
 
Rated: 4.29 by SoPeL from Poland

Jun 29, 2015
 
Rated: 3.27 by DrMindbender from South Carolina

May 14, 2015
 
Rated: 3.15 by BcOneSeven from Michigan

Apr 13, 2015
 
Rated: 3.96 by Ohiovania from Ohio

Feb 13, 2015
 
Rated: 3.88 by ArkyVaughan from New Jersey

Feb 10, 2015
 
Rated: 3.25 by Mattias from Sweden

Feb 06, 2015
 
Rated: 3.6 by BPMeyer27 from Ohio

Jan 24, 2015
Final Frontier IIPA from To Øl
Beer rating: 86 out of 100 with 96 ratings