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Daredevil Brewing Co

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From:
Daredevil Brewing Co
 
Indiana, United States
Style:
Imperial IPA
Ranked #947
ABV:
9%
Score:
92
Ranked #5,159
Avg:
4.15 | pDev: 7.71%
Reviews:
19
Ratings:
86
Status:
Active
Rated:
Mar 19, 2024
Added:
Apr 08, 2013
Wants:
  7
Gots:
  17
An abundance of American hops balanced with a hint of malt to produce an exhilarating experience of intense hop flavors and aromas.
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Ratings by NCSapiens:
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Rated by NCSapiens from Indiana

4.03/5  rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Aug 26, 2018
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Reviewed by MutuelsMark from Kentucky

4/5  rDev -3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours copper in color. The head is super thick and white as can be. The lacing is just gripping the glass all over. Nose is citrus and pine. Taste was similar to nose, pine, citrus and resin. Nice bitterness to this beer. Good stuff!
Mar 19, 2024
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Reviewed by ovaltine from Indiana

4.35/5  rDev +4.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours a slightly unfiltered golden color with a creamy oatmeal colored head that sticks to the glass like a magnet does to steel. Beautiful WCDIPA.

The nose is varied, with orange marmalade, some grapefruit, resiny pine, and a very nice and malty caramalt note. I like where this is heading.

The taste is led by the orange marmalade and grapefruit, and approaches dank, and exceeds delicious when combined with the resiny pine and the caramalt that flirts with biscuity. This is exceptionally well balanced and flavorful, especially as it warms.

The mouthfeel is full and drying, on point for a WCDIPA. I am really looking forward to the rest of the 4-pack, because this is really well done, IMHO.
Jul 22, 2023
 
Rated: 3.75 by PhineasMcClintock from Massachusetts

Sep 15, 2022
 
Rated: 3.53 by Nunya from Ohio

Apr 03, 2022
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Rated by BigIronH from Michigan

3.75/5  rDev -9.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Aroma is sweet tropical fruit and earth. Taste follows suit with a dank hop and bitter finish. Feel is thing and silky but finishes dry, decent beer.
Dec 10, 2021
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Reviewed by jkblr from Indiana

4.25/5  rDev +2.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
16oz can stamped 12/10/2020 (packaged 18 days ago) poured into a Spiegelau IPA glass at fridge temp, no ABV listed on can. The beer pours mostly bright light honey amber in color with off white head. The head recedes to a fluffy cap and leaves a web of lacing. The aroma is pungent and features candied orange, melon, grapefruit, pine and danker, tropical fruit notes. The taste is semisweet light malt with a slight caramel, more toasted, malt backbone before the onslaught of hop flavor. Mostly dank, earthy, piney with lighter influence of lemon, grapefruit, orange and melon. Big lasting bitterness. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with average carbonation and a mostly dry finish. Residual hop oil, not sweetness, keeps it from completely dry. Overall, very good to excellent. This is certainly one to get on draft or fresh if you're in Indy.
Dec 28, 2020
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Reviewed by Bones10 from Illinois

4.26/5  rDev +2.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
The pour leaves a solid, white pillow that lingers over a mostly clear, gold body.

The smell is a muted citrus with faint bread notes.

This is a very good tasting beer. Citrus and pine in that order, with a pithy alcohol taste that is pleasing and bright.

Carbonation is as expected with a medium body that carries the beer well.

Great mid-era DIPA that brings old school bitterness and new school citrus to play on your palate.

Slainte
Nov 23, 2020
 
Rated: 3.86 by Knapp85 from Pennsylvania

Aug 23, 2020
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Reviewed by jzeilinger from Pennsylvania

4.13/5  rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
A - Medium gold color with a slight haze and sticky white lacing.

S - Some spicy pepper fruit rind and biscuity malt. Overall aroma is light.

T - Pineapple, red grapefruit, peppery fruit rind, and ends with a spicy pineapple fruit rind and lingering citrus bitterness with some pine resin. The alcohol does poke through midway on the sip, but just a little bit.

M - Thick body and dry finish.

O - This is a solid West Coast style D-IPA.
Aug 16, 2020
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Reviewed by brewerburgundy from West Virginia

4.27/5  rDev +2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
16oz can, tulip, canned 1/2/20.

The color is at the light end of the golden, yellow-orange continuum with a white head that quickly dwindles, but leaves a good ring and scattered bits of lace.

Pineapple, orange and grapefruit peel, slightly dank, very fresh and fragrant.

Candied citrus, white grapefruit and pineapple juices. There’s apparent alcohol, which adds to the bitterness, but it’s not boozy. There’s a great synergy of hop fruitiness, hop bitterness, and the pale malt. It’s sweet, yet dry at the same time.

Medium bodied, medium low carbonation. Silky with just enough tickle.

I’m stoked that this is such a good West Coast style DIPA. Thanks for the can Cliff!
Feb 22, 2020
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Reviewed by ben741 from Canada (ON)

4.25/5  rDev +2.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Had on tap at Old Chicago At the Delta in Indianapolis. Pali should good colour with a nice white head. Some tropical fruit int he smell but very little in the taste. Very balanced, hoppy but not bitter. It hides its alcohol very well.
Great IPA.
Jan 23, 2020
 
Rated: 3.95 by SomewhereInTheMiddle from Indiana

Sep 24, 2019
 
Rated: 4.1 by mdaschaf from Indiana

Aug 29, 2019
 
Rated: 3.87 by WickedBeer from Alabama

Aug 19, 2019
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Reviewed by thebeers from Pennsylvania

3.97/5  rDev -4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Clear gold with theo fingers of off-white head. Sudsy lacing.

Light pine and even lighter pineapple and orange in the nose.

A flash of pineapple and orange sweetness up front in the taste. A little peppery bite mid-palate. Solid enough malt backbone without becoming too distinctive. Slightly catty. Dull earthy bitterness in the finish.

Somewhat syrupy feel with nice carbonation.

A really tasty West Coast DIPA. Very enjoyable old-school goodness.
Jun 21, 2019
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Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania

4.3/5  rDev +3.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
This is a CANtinuation of yesterday's New Hoosier Daddy Beer Sunday (Week 738)! I am CANtinuing with CANs from IndiCANa, courtesy of @AyatollahGold & @jkblr both of whom have recently hooked me up, Hoosier style. I ran out of both time & steam yesterday, but not beer!

From the CAN: "An abundance of American hops balanced with a hint of malt to produce an exhilarating experience of intense hop flavors and aromas."; "Brewing eclectic, aggressively fun beers is not for the timid. Fortunately, the only thing we like better than a challenge is drinking the end result."

I am becoming more & more CANamored of Daredevil BC with every CAN that shows up from them! Unfortunately, this is my last (for now). 8=( I beCAN by Crack!ing open the vent & CANmencing a slow, gentle C-Line Glug into the awaiting glass. As with its predecessor, it appeared to be unfiltered & so I CANtinued my pour until the foaming action became almost too much for the glass. I would up with just under two fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, French Vanilla-colored head with decent retention, leaving nice lacing behind in its wake. Color was a moderately-hazy Yellow-Gold (SRM = 4 - 5). Nose had the most current eclectic mix of hops, ranging from tropical sweetness to grapefruit bitterness to a bit of cattiness & some pine coolness. Mmm. Now, for the taste … Mouthfeel was medium, a little light for a DIPA/AIIPA. The taste was a marvelous mélange of flavors, beginning with the cool CANbination of tropical fruit & pine forest, followed by a blast of grapefruit bitterness, finished by Simcoe the Kitty slinking away, having finished her business. Wow! This caused my heart to beat a little faster. Phew! The alcohol was well-hidden, making it all the more dangerous. It was eminently drinkable & I was going to town until I happened to glance down at the speedometer which was now pegged out at 120 + per! Eek. I'm not THAT much of a Daredevil so I beCAN to back off & slow down. Finish was semi-dry with a preponderance of tropical fruitiness that the pine & grapefruit simply could not overcome. Phew!
Apr 16, 2019
 
Rated: 3.79 by JDizzle from Indiana

Mar 29, 2019
 
Rated: 4.16 by Thomasbeerus from Indiana

Feb 28, 2019
 
Rated: 4.24 by casey0287 from Indiana

Aug 26, 2018
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