Big Suits
Toppling Goliath Brewing Company

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From:
Toppling Goliath Brewing Company
 
Iowa, United States
Style:
Imperial IPA
Ranked #1,076
ABV:
9.8%
Score:
92
Ranked #6,843
Avg:
4.18 | pDev: 6.46%
Ratings:
34 | reviews: 10
Status:
Active
Rated:
Aug 21, 2024
Added:
Feb 28, 2024
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  4
Big Suits Triple India pale ale hits the stage to showcase its band of hand-selected hops, including Citra®, Mosaic®, and Simcoe®, that create a flavor profile of epic proportions. Does anybody have any questions?
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Rated: 4 by DBosco from Massachusetts

Aug 21, 2024
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Reviewed by vette2006c5r from Minnesota

4.67/5  rDev +11.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Big Suits pours a hazy, orangish color with a small head. The aroma is big fruits, vegetables, and a little dank. The flavor is also significant, some fruit, orange, dank, earth, a hint of hemp. GOod feel. Overall, it's a big, strong IPA, and lots of great flavors come together for this one.
Aug 14, 2024
 
Rated: 5 by doctorgary from New York

Aug 04, 2024
 
Rated: 4.08 by SicemWT from Texas

Aug 02, 2024
 
Rated: 4.23 by NolaHopHead from Louisiana

Jul 19, 2024
 
Rated: 4.4 by TheManiacalOne from Rhode Island

Jun 30, 2024
 
Rated: 3.85 by Viaduck from California

Jun 27, 2024
 
Rated: 4.25 by ejimhof from Pennsylvania

Jun 12, 2024
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Reviewed by LesDewitt4beer from Minnesota

4.29/5  rDev +2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
16 oz can into a shaker pint glass.
L: SRM 3 Pours white gold with a 1/2" rocky white head, low carbonation, random sticky lacing.
S: Fruity, citrus, melon, light dankness.
T: Tastes follow aroma adding peach, melon rind, pineapple, wheat, a hint of berries, a touch of honey. It is moderately tropical and is lightly sweet. I did not taste any alcohol. It is very gently sharp. The taste is complex.
F: Smooth medium-heavy bodied juicy feel with a medium length lightly drying finish.
O: A very good tasting and easy drinking TIPA. It is strong and effective. Another outstanding beer from TG.
Jun 08, 2024
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Reviewed by whynot44 from Missouri

4.25/5  rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Very hazy/cloudy orange color (looks like orange juice with a head) and a decent off white head and some bits of lacing.
The aroma is citrus, pineapple and miscellaneous tropical fruits.
The taste is tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, lemon, white grape and passion fruit with a faint background of light caramel and pound cake. The finish is dry with lingering citrus zest and a touch of pine, moderate bitterness.
The body is full, good level of carbonation, creamy smooth and very drinkable. Altogether, this is another big hazy IPA from Toppling Goliath, very juicy, well hidden ABV, almost too easy to drink, I want another, outstanding.
May 31, 2024
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Reviewed by AdmiralOzone from Minnesota

3.73/5  rDev -10.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Pours hazy light orange with a thick white cap, spotty lacing. Aroma is faint, citrus and stone fruits. Flavor is much bolder than the nose, sweet and fruity. Feel is medium bodied. Overall, good but not what I've come to expect from this fine brewery.
May 30, 2024
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Reviewed by CHickman from New York

4.06/5  rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours cloudy orange color with a 2 finger thick beige colored head that faded slowly and left minimal spotty lacing. Smells like orange juice, grapefruit, pineapple, Razzles candy, brown sugar, passion fruit, fruit juice and dry floral hops. Tastes like it smells but a lot sweeter with a heavy alcohol presence. Chewy and bitter, this one needs to be refined a bit.
May 24, 2024
 
Rated: 4.25 by paulish from New York

May 22, 2024
 
Rated: 4.1 by Abe_Froman from Massachusetts

May 18, 2024
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Reviewed by russpowell from Arkansas

4.09/5  rDev -2.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours a very hazed gold with a thumb+ of beige colored head. Average-ish head retention & lacing

S: Citrus, green melon, peaches once warm

T: Tangerine, green melon, dryness, a kiss of white grape up front. Pineapple fights through as this beer warms up, along with dryness, tangerines & limes. Finishes with pineapple acidity, tangerines & lime & a little passion fruit

MF: Medium/chewy body with restrained carbonation, good balance, acidic bite

Solid juicy/hazy DIPA, drinks fairly easy for the heft
May 17, 2024
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Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky

4.21/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
It's like they say, "Go big or go home.". Toppling Goliath isn't going home small. Their "triple" IPA that splurges Citra, Mosaic and Simcoe hops is going there wearing some pretty big suits.

Pale and hazy golden-orange, Big Suits crowns with a creamy eggshell froth and a juicy scent of citrus, tropical fruit, herb and berry. As its creamy malts coat the tongue, early impressions of poundcake, cereal, honey and cream-of-wheat gloss the tongue with grain sweetness.

But anything malty is short-lived as the hops blossom on the middle palate to share a burst of tangerine, pink grapefruit and lime. A followup to citrus is more tropical with mango, passionfruit, kiwi and papaya before the session turns smoothly bitter with lemon verbena, sassafras, damp sod, black tea and cedar. All wrapped in the juiciness of white grape and cantaloup, the session is bold, spicy and plump all at once.

Full bodied, creamy and finishing on the sweeter side of malty-dry and with a more sweet than bitter afterglow. Its a dangerously smooth IPA with a slight simmer of peppery vodka vapor that resonates in the throat.
May 15, 2024
 
Rated: 4.25 by McBraniel from Virginia

May 11, 2024
 
Rated: 3.87 by prototypic from Ohio

May 11, 2024
 
Rated: 4 by dbrauneis from North Carolina

May 01, 2024
 
Rated: 4.06 by Mikexw from New York

Apr 30, 2024