Double Identity
Beau's All Natural Brewing Company
- From:
- Beau's All Natural Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.75 | pDev: 6.4%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 25, 2018
- Added:
- Nov 24, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Mysticmage from Canada (ON)
3.74/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
I love Doubles and was very happy to find one in a sampler pack this past winter. Pours fine amber and clear unless you want all the sediment pour slow, chilled and upright. Little carbonation and collar. Smells earthy pine hops for sure. Tastes of strong hops as well. I think Beaus can nail a double, just not quite there yet.
Mar 17, 2018
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.42/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.42/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
600ml bottle, part of Beau's winter mixed-pack (and their 'Wild Oats Series', FWIW). Hopefully the past four months have been kind to this DIPA.
This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with lots of swirling floaties, and three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a band of Klingon script lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, a bit of earthy yeastiness, and some restrained leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, a lesser white crackery thing, still hard to parse citrus notes, some musty and somewhat spicy yeastiness, a bit of damp minerality, and more underwhelming earthy, herbal, and musky floral hoppiness. No real sign of the 18-proof booze measure, so good, I guess?
The carbonation is damned near non-existent in its slacker frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, I suppose, as any hop vigour seems to have swiftly left the building. It finishes off-dry, the malt and lingering fruitiness making a wan game of it.
Overall - yeah, I'm guessing that the so-called 'double dose' of whatever hops were either not that great to begin with, or seriously lacking any staying power. I know I'm being pedantic here, but winter ain't over yet, so I expect brewers (and reps, mostly reps) to figure that shit out.
Mar 16, 2018This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with lots of swirling floaties, and three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a band of Klingon script lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, a bit of earthy yeastiness, and some restrained leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, a lesser white crackery thing, still hard to parse citrus notes, some musty and somewhat spicy yeastiness, a bit of damp minerality, and more underwhelming earthy, herbal, and musky floral hoppiness. No real sign of the 18-proof booze measure, so good, I guess?
The carbonation is damned near non-existent in its slacker frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, I suppose, as any hop vigour seems to have swiftly left the building. It finishes off-dry, the malt and lingering fruitiness making a wan game of it.
Overall - yeah, I'm guessing that the so-called 'double dose' of whatever hops were either not that great to begin with, or seriously lacking any staying power. I know I'm being pedantic here, but winter ain't over yet, so I expect brewers (and reps, mostly reps) to figure that shit out.
Reviewed by taxandbeerguy from Canada (ON)
3.95/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.95/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
600 ml bottle as part of the Beau's winter pack. Listed at 85 IBU's. Batch 6717 and bottled on November 1, 2017. I suspect this is the star of the winter pack or at least the beer I'm most looking forward too. Served cold into a pint glass.
Appearance - Pours a hazy pale yellowy color with a big two finger white head, great retention and lacing too. Adding the final 20% of the beer adds an incredible amount of sediment to the glass (lots of visible floaties) and murks up the bere considerably. Makes it slightly less appealing to drink.
Smell - Plenty of hops, leaning towards the earthy and piney hops with some grapefruit and orange mixed in with a healthy dose of pine resin. Some earthiness as well with a suggestion of caramel and grains to keep it balanced. Nose is more subdued when cold.
Taste - Follows the nose as well, earthy hops with some grapefruit and orange. Fairly intensely bitter, with enough suggestions of sweetness to keep it reasonably balanced.
Mouthfeel -medium-heavy bodied with good levels of carbonation and drying finish. About right for the style.
Overall - For something I was surely looking forward to in this Winter Pack, Double Identity didn't quite live up to the high expectations I had for it. Certainly a solid and well made IPA, but not quite enough tropical punch to raise this up into the upper echelon of DIPA's.
Dec 16, 2017Appearance - Pours a hazy pale yellowy color with a big two finger white head, great retention and lacing too. Adding the final 20% of the beer adds an incredible amount of sediment to the glass (lots of visible floaties) and murks up the bere considerably. Makes it slightly less appealing to drink.
Smell - Plenty of hops, leaning towards the earthy and piney hops with some grapefruit and orange mixed in with a healthy dose of pine resin. Some earthiness as well with a suggestion of caramel and grains to keep it balanced. Nose is more subdued when cold.
Taste - Follows the nose as well, earthy hops with some grapefruit and orange. Fairly intensely bitter, with enough suggestions of sweetness to keep it reasonably balanced.
Mouthfeel -medium-heavy bodied with good levels of carbonation and drying finish. About right for the style.
Overall - For something I was surely looking forward to in this Winter Pack, Double Identity didn't quite live up to the high expectations I had for it. Certainly a solid and well made IPA, but not quite enough tropical punch to raise this up into the upper echelon of DIPA's.
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