4 Pines Keller Door Imperial IPA
4 Pines Brewing Company
- From:
- 4 Pines Brewing Company
- Australia
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.72 | pDev: 7.53%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 14, 2016
- Added:
- Mar 02, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Bubshab from Australia
4.17/5 rDev +12.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.5
4.17/5 rDev +12.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.5
Look: Pours clear-golden with about 1.5 fingers of retaining head.
Aroma: Big pineapple, sweet malts grapefruit/sweet citrus. Really nice tropical-forward IPA.
Taste: Really balanced (for an IPA) in my opinion. Early tropical/pineapple driven sweetness above a solid malty backbone which gives way to the more traditional piney, bitter notes which persist in the aftertaste.
Overall: An excellent replication of the current sweet/tropical style of IPA sweeping the states. A gooden' in my opinion.
Mar 28, 2016Aroma: Big pineapple, sweet malts grapefruit/sweet citrus. Really nice tropical-forward IPA.
Taste: Really balanced (for an IPA) in my opinion. Early tropical/pineapple driven sweetness above a solid malty backbone which gives way to the more traditional piney, bitter notes which persist in the aftertaste.
Overall: An excellent replication of the current sweet/tropical style of IPA sweeping the states. A gooden' in my opinion.
Reviewed by RickyS from Germany
3.84/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.84/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Very clear. Head shows a good retention. Very pungent aroma, dominated by pineapple, malts and hearty notes. Very sweet though. This is also reflected in the taste. I feel this is kind of low carbonated. Not a bad beer.
Mar 23, 2016
Reviewed by heygeebee from Australia
3.23/5 rDev -13.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2
3.23/5 rDev -13.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2
Was really looking forward to this one.
Looks the biz... Totally clear Amber, frothy head.
Aroma is muted... Sugars and the syrup from tinned fruit.
Taste is sugars, muted, and malt driven, hops and pineapple in the background. An astringent bitterness follows. Hollow mid palate.
Mouthfeel moderately carbonated, oily.
I really wanted to like this... Where is the lifted nose and the hop kick?
Mar 04, 2016Looks the biz... Totally clear Amber, frothy head.
Aroma is muted... Sugars and the syrup from tinned fruit.
Taste is sugars, muted, and malt driven, hops and pineapple in the background. An astringent bitterness follows. Hollow mid palate.
Mouthfeel moderately carbonated, oily.
I really wanted to like this... Where is the lifted nose and the hop kick?
Reviewed by doktorhops from Australia
3.72/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
3.72/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
After the featherweight 4 Pines Indian Summer Pale Ale this 9% ABV 84 IBU 4 Pines Keller Door Imperial IPA is going to be like getting a sandwich carefully crafted for you by Mike Tyson... that is a knuckle sandwich. As I’m mentally preparing myself for the giddying high one gets from hops and alcohol combined en masse it occurs to me that this will be the biggest beer I’ve had since Jan 2016, and it’s already March - wow! [cracks fingers and neck] OK I’m going in - Brewronimo!
Poured from a 500ml bottle into a Duvel tulip.
A: Presents with a clear perfect amber body and a chunky 2 cm off-white head that retains well - a complete 180 on the Indian Summer Pale Ale - if I were to choose between the two beers based on looks this one would definitely take the win. 8/10.
S: Pineapple chunks in pineapple syrup with a light pineapple glaze on top. You get what I mean - this is a pineapple lovers wet dream. Heaps of sugary malt and other notes - piney, light cannabis herbal hop characters as well. Overall the aroma is heady and sounds a giant klaxon with a Tannoy message playing out “Warning: Prepare for sticky/gooey pineapple!” Love it. 9/10.
T: Flavour is an all-malt sugar assault on the senses, with some hops thrown in. Soooo much sugar! I’m actually booking in an appointment with my dentist right now. What about all that pineapple? It’s there, in an advisory capacity to the malt, but really sweet sugary malt is the chief of staff with this brew. So let’s recap the flavours: Malt upfront, pineapple/herbal/piney hops centre and finishes with a light (for IPA standards) hop bitterness. Aftertaste is like some sort of odd hop honey. What is missing? Balance between malt/hops of course, duh. 7/10.
M: Medium bodied, some hop oiliness is present, with a borderline flat carbonation. 8/10.
D: I bet you $1 billion (which I don’t actually have) that this has NZ hops in it - because the hop aroma is fantastic but the flavour is malt dominated - as I’ve found with the biggest hop brews coming out of NZ. Which is a shame because everything else is great and it doesn’t nearly feel as weighty as other 9% brews can be (i.e. the alcohol hides well here) and I do quite enjoy 4 Pines Keller releases (in fact I believe most of these brews should be made year-round), however there is simply too much sugar happening in this ale as it stands and I cannot afford to become another blip on the rapidly growing western-world diabetes statistics. 6/10.
Food match: Turkey stuffed with Insulin and a side of mash with gravy.
Mar 02, 2016Poured from a 500ml bottle into a Duvel tulip.
A: Presents with a clear perfect amber body and a chunky 2 cm off-white head that retains well - a complete 180 on the Indian Summer Pale Ale - if I were to choose between the two beers based on looks this one would definitely take the win. 8/10.
S: Pineapple chunks in pineapple syrup with a light pineapple glaze on top. You get what I mean - this is a pineapple lovers wet dream. Heaps of sugary malt and other notes - piney, light cannabis herbal hop characters as well. Overall the aroma is heady and sounds a giant klaxon with a Tannoy message playing out “Warning: Prepare for sticky/gooey pineapple!” Love it. 9/10.
T: Flavour is an all-malt sugar assault on the senses, with some hops thrown in. Soooo much sugar! I’m actually booking in an appointment with my dentist right now. What about all that pineapple? It’s there, in an advisory capacity to the malt, but really sweet sugary malt is the chief of staff with this brew. So let’s recap the flavours: Malt upfront, pineapple/herbal/piney hops centre and finishes with a light (for IPA standards) hop bitterness. Aftertaste is like some sort of odd hop honey. What is missing? Balance between malt/hops of course, duh. 7/10.
M: Medium bodied, some hop oiliness is present, with a borderline flat carbonation. 8/10.
D: I bet you $1 billion (which I don’t actually have) that this has NZ hops in it - because the hop aroma is fantastic but the flavour is malt dominated - as I’ve found with the biggest hop brews coming out of NZ. Which is a shame because everything else is great and it doesn’t nearly feel as weighty as other 9% brews can be (i.e. the alcohol hides well here) and I do quite enjoy 4 Pines Keller releases (in fact I believe most of these brews should be made year-round), however there is simply too much sugar happening in this ale as it stands and I cannot afford to become another blip on the rapidly growing western-world diabetes statistics. 6/10.
Food match: Turkey stuffed with Insulin and a side of mash with gravy.
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