Baby Maker
Triple C Brewing Co.

Served from tap into a sampler tumbler. Poured red-orange with a minimal off-white head. Maintained excellent lacing throughout the glass. The aroma was comprised of sweet malt, pine, pine hop, earth, and spicy hop. The flavor was of sweet malt, pine, pine hop, earth, earth hop, and skunky hop. It had a light feel on the palate with medium-high carbonation. Overall this was a decent brew. It wasn’t an over-the-top DIPA like I would have hoped for, however it did bring some nice flavors and aromas to the party. Granted there was a huge dominance of hops going on and not a lot of stuff going on to balance them out. This was rather unfortunate. If there was some more sweetness or even citrus going on, this could have been a really solid brew. Glad I got the chance to try it and hopefully they change it up slightly to make a very solid brew in the future. Tick.

PKGD ON 09/18/24. Poured into a Samuel Adams Perfect Pint.

A: Clear medium amber hue with 1-finger of off-white foamy head that falls off quickly but leaves a lot of lacing.

S: Aroma is nondescript with some piney resinous hop notes and light-medium caramel malt. Clean with minimal fruity esters.

T: Flavor is much more bold than the aroma with blasts of pine, resin, orange citrus, and grapefruit with dank herbal notes in the finish and aftertaste. Alcohol creeps in with some sweetness. Malt is significant with old school balancing medium caramel maltiness. Moderate+ bitterness.

M: Feel is medium body with low carbonation and dry finish.

O: Baby Maker DIPA from Triple C is an old school, brawny, big and bad DIPA that is a throwback to mid 2000’s with strong bitterness but more refinement and cleaner flavor and feel. A good change of pace but not a beer you can drink a bunch of. Enjoyed it nonetheless!

Poured from a 16 Oz can purchased at a local store in Surf City. Good head and slightly hoppy, with good notes and malt. Decent DIPA and smooth!

Poured from draft at Cowbell Burger and Bar in Uptown Charlotte. Great smell and taste. The head was pretty small, but it laced well. Taste pretty hoppy, but very good. One of the better Double IPAs I’ve had.

 

I should state that this DIPA was about 3 months old when I drank it. Poured from 16 oz. can into a pint glass. It pours a mostly clear, honey-amber color with a large, frothy, milk-white head and lots of soapy lacing. The nose is malty and fairly sweet with strong hoppy notes. I'm smelling almost no fruit which could result from its advanced age. This is a very southern-influenced ale with a heavy malt base balanced by pronounced piney bitterness from the Cascade hops. As it warms, I'm finally detecting some stone fruit from the Glacier hops but it's subtle. I think if the can were fresher, there would be additional citrus from the Azacca and Amarillo. This ale has a fairly thick and viscous mouth feel with appropriate carbonation, and the 8.5% ABV gives it good substance. This ale was enjoyable at its advanced age but I cannot help but think it would be much better fresh.

 

This ale has golden amber color with good clarity with thick beige cream head and lace sticks
the smell is malty lightly toasted with pine spiced hop aromas
the feel is bitter dry and lightly sweet with moderate alcohol and carbonation
The taste is mildly citrus with herbal and pine in the hops with a sturdy pale malt backbone a balance toward bitter with some sweetness inf finish and subtle alcohol flavor with light toast and lime zest
this is a very tasty IPA with good hop aroma and feel was better than expected

 

 

Triple C’s brewers clearly hit a homer in with this baby. Big, big malt backbone with exquisitely balanced hop bitterness... goes down very smoothly, and at 8.5%, dangerously so. While it might help to give a few of these to the gal who’s womb will nurse that baby, too many for the Baby Maker himself might bring Shakespeare’’s classic dictum about alcohol into play: “It increaseth the desire but decreaseth the performance...” E’en so, worth drinking two or three!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deep copper color. Full body taste. Not over hopped. Smooth drinking!