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Double IPA
AleSmith Brewing Company
- From:
- AleSmith Brewing Company
- California, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
Ranked #671 - ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- 93
Ranked #3,137 - Avg:
- 4.19 | pDev: 9.55%
- Reviews:
- 970
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sunday at 04:48 AM
- Added:
- Nov 24, 2002
- Wants:
- 272
- Gots:
- 160
Also known as YuleSmith (Summer)
Every year we anxiously await the warmer months to unleash this Double IPA, the summer edition of our former YuleSmith seasonals. The flavor imparts orange, grapefruit, and tangerine hop notes with earthy, spicy, and resinous pine undertones. A sturdy malt backbone balances out the profound hop bitterness to create a refreshingly assertive and vibrant beer that offers an unapologetically bold expression of fresh American hops.
YEAR ROUND: No – July / August
Every year we anxiously await the warmer months to unleash this Double IPA, the summer edition of our former YuleSmith seasonals. The flavor imparts orange, grapefruit, and tangerine hop notes with earthy, spicy, and resinous pine undertones. A sturdy malt backbone balances out the profound hop bitterness to create a refreshingly assertive and vibrant beer that offers an unapologetically bold expression of fresh American hops.
YEAR ROUND: No – July / August
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Ratings by laituegonflable:
Reviewed by laituegonflable from Australia
3.73/5 rDev -11%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.73/5 rDev -11%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours a pale golden colour with white fluffy head, sinking in this wonderful deflation effect, but clinging here and there to the glass. Lots of carbonation, quite strong and prolific. Not bad overall; love that head, too.
Smells quite tasty. An odd mustiness to it but plenty of fresh fruit as well. Citrus and passionfruit and some nice caramel notes underlying. Could use more, need to sniff quite strongly to get much aroma, but what's there is nice.
Taste is wow, interesting. Lots of fruit and tang on the front, with passionfruit and pineapple mostly, descends into mid-palate that is quite malty and caramelly, like peanut brittle with a richness to the sweet flavours. Back is bitter in an IPA way, but it has more funk characters reminiscent of a saison. Very rubery with a strong ascerbic bent, but a nice touch of passionfruit as well and a soothing kiss of boozey warmth. Yeah, strong and bitter on the back but a pleasant sensation, and quite unique even among double IPAs.
Drinks alright, quite full but too much texture on the back, over-carbonated maybe? Not too bad though.
Yeah, don't know if I could handle too much of this at once. Good for a taste, but not every day drinking.
Jan 13, 2011Smells quite tasty. An odd mustiness to it but plenty of fresh fruit as well. Citrus and passionfruit and some nice caramel notes underlying. Could use more, need to sniff quite strongly to get much aroma, but what's there is nice.
Taste is wow, interesting. Lots of fruit and tang on the front, with passionfruit and pineapple mostly, descends into mid-palate that is quite malty and caramelly, like peanut brittle with a richness to the sweet flavours. Back is bitter in an IPA way, but it has more funk characters reminiscent of a saison. Very rubery with a strong ascerbic bent, but a nice touch of passionfruit as well and a soothing kiss of boozey warmth. Yeah, strong and bitter on the back but a pleasant sensation, and quite unique even among double IPAs.
Drinks alright, quite full but too much texture on the back, over-carbonated maybe? Not too bad though.
Yeah, don't know if I could handle too much of this at once. Good for a taste, but not every day drinking.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.5/5 rDev -16.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -16.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Shared bottle at local tasting, thanks to gunnar. ABV is 8.5%. Golden colour, huge white head. Sweetish aroma of malts and orange marmalade. Distinctly hoppy flavour throughout, very bitter finish. Maybe not very complex, but good.
Mar 20, 2021Reviewed by VoodooBear from Puerto Rico
3.62/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Presentation: 12 oz. can, served in a Samuel Adams pint glass.
Appearance: One finger head that sticks around for a while and leaves some good lacing. Cloudy, dark gold color.
Smell: Dank, musky hop aroma, some fresh citrus peel with faint malt and grain notes in the background.
Taste: Bitter, but not overwhelmingly so. It has more of a juicy, fruity, sweet citrus character which is nice. A faint, piney aftertaste remains.
Mouthfeel: Smooth and medium bodied with medium high carbonation.
Overall: Nothing new or groundbreaking here, which is fine. A solid DIPA and a damn good beer.
Sep 27, 2018Appearance: One finger head that sticks around for a while and leaves some good lacing. Cloudy, dark gold color.
Smell: Dank, musky hop aroma, some fresh citrus peel with faint malt and grain notes in the background.
Taste: Bitter, but not overwhelmingly so. It has more of a juicy, fruity, sweet citrus character which is nice. A faint, piney aftertaste remains.
Mouthfeel: Smooth and medium bodied with medium high carbonation.
Overall: Nothing new or groundbreaking here, which is fine. A solid DIPA and a damn good beer.
Rated by jacobdunne from Colorado
4.45/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.45/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
There’s a simultaneous malt & fruity kick on each sip. The piney aftertaste is blatant and incredible. Yummy beer!
Jul 25, 2018
Double IPA from AleSmith Brewing Company
Beer rating:
93 out of
100 with
1978 ratings
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