Simcoe Double
Upstate Brewing Company
- From:
- Upstate Brewing Company
- New York, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7.7%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.98 | pDev: 8.29%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 19, 2017
- Added:
- May 07, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by HorseheadsHophead from Colorado
4.31/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Comes in a clear gold color with visible rising bubbles, with a big white head. Retention is moderate, but lacing is excellent.
Smells immediately of Simcoe, but a bit more restrained, and leans towards fruitiness than typical dankness and cattiness. It does smell like dank wet herbs upfront, but also lots of passion fruit, gooseberry, honeydew melon, green grape, pineapple, lemon, and yellow grapefruit.
The palate offers tons of lemon peel and yellow grapefruit upfront, immediately followed by gooseberry, passion fruit, honeydew melon, and green grape. The malt backbone is a very light and pale cracker with hints of honey and white tea. There's also a mingling of tart pineapple and white peach here and there throughout. Finishes decidedly dry with only an initial touch of citrusy bitterness, which ends almost immediately and then is very clean and crisp.
The mouthfeel is medium, leaning towards light, but with a smooth carbonation.
This is less typically New England style than their previous Double batches, but isn't exactly West Coast style, either. It occupies that nebulous zone like Victory Vital IPA and Southern Tier Nu Skool IPA that I really like. What the hell you want to call it, this is a great IPA.
May 07, 2017Smells immediately of Simcoe, but a bit more restrained, and leans towards fruitiness than typical dankness and cattiness. It does smell like dank wet herbs upfront, but also lots of passion fruit, gooseberry, honeydew melon, green grape, pineapple, lemon, and yellow grapefruit.
The palate offers tons of lemon peel and yellow grapefruit upfront, immediately followed by gooseberry, passion fruit, honeydew melon, and green grape. The malt backbone is a very light and pale cracker with hints of honey and white tea. There's also a mingling of tart pineapple and white peach here and there throughout. Finishes decidedly dry with only an initial touch of citrusy bitterness, which ends almost immediately and then is very clean and crisp.
The mouthfeel is medium, leaning towards light, but with a smooth carbonation.
This is less typically New England style than their previous Double batches, but isn't exactly West Coast style, either. It occupies that nebulous zone like Victory Vital IPA and Southern Tier Nu Skool IPA that I really like. What the hell you want to call it, this is a great IPA.
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