Bigger And Juicier
Three Magnets Brewing

 

 

 

 

Big, thick and boozy. Looks awesome. Orangey, copper color with big thick creamy head. Smells like booze and apricots, mango, citrus. Tastes about the same. Kind of warming as it goes down. Nice and thick mouth feel as expected. Overall pretty good beer for as big as it is. Definitely not the first beer of the night to start with. A finisher for sure.

 

For starters, I'd recommend letting this beer warm up a bit to let the flavor and aroma come forth. Cloudy orange with a creamy, tan head. Solid film on glass and streaks of lacing. Some particulate floating and settling. Aroma is whiskey, malt, and apricot. The flavor is on the sweet side, with some alcohol heat. Malt, fruit, and some grapefruit and pine at the end. Super hoppy in the finish. Resinous, but a bit much on the alcohol qualities. Like taking a shot. I've had higher beers that were smoother. The bitterness doesn't mesh with this quite right & is my only real complaint. Not my favorite from this brewery, but a decent beer overall.

Sweet and hot. Tastes like canned peach juice with vodka. Big aroma of mango and Hostess fried pies. Thick and malty. Really, really malty and steaming with alcohol.

Makes a good mixer with a less well-endowed beer like Summer Rye or other from the fizzy crowd. Appearance is an acceptable amber haze. Not, however, thrilled to see floaties in the last pour, but at least they're well pickled.

 

 

 

Bottled on 6/28/16, enjoyed 7/11/16.

Appearance is a hazy dark golden orange. Off white head quickly dissipates leaving some lacing.

Smell is citrus, herbal, grapefruit rind, alcohol.

Taste for me is primarily boozy with lots of malty sweetness. Moderately bitter finish. As it warms, I get more of the hops.

Overall for me it drank more like a barleywine. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed it, but my pallet must be so saturated in lupulin that I didn't get as much hop aroma or flavor as I expected. I also don't have much experience with Galaxy or Hallertau Blanc hops. I was getting some white grape notes and other flavors I couldn't put my finger on that were delicious but unfamiliar. Drinking the whole bomber to myself was a nice treat following a day of redoing ductwork in a flooded, musty crawlspace surrounded by rodents in varying states of decay.

This TIPA comes off well overall for me from a bomber in tulip. Looks like a typical IPA dark golden and the aroma isn't strong or off putting. Resin is the taste the comes through most but isn't over powering or detrimental at all. Goes down rather light and easy so it's balanced to enjoy. Overall, again, I enjoyed it and recommend it for the style.

 

HOOOOooooo boy. Was prowling around for a bottle of Old Skook, a TMB barleywine. Found this instead! The king of the kinds of other kings. This stuff one ups the 5-lbs-per-barrel...


These guys arent afraid to be vulnerable in their production of what im sure they know to be an absurdly absurdly hopped beer. This is something new and with newness comes fear, apprehension, anxiety, and again, vulnerability. There will be some folks who dislike hops who will somehow end up guzzling this. Just spare us from your hop-balk. Please.

This is an immense brew. So so so immense. Have to say, though, that it's better out of the bottle in all fronts except look of course. It just looks so beautiful. A traditional, archetypal IIIPA-appearance with an unseen sturdiness and vigor. Excellent glow, and perfect, balanced filtration. Smell is piney, sort of swampy, really dank, but has some pepper and dance.

Tastes as good as it feels. The taste here is unmatched. Worth migrating west for. Huge huge huge character in these hops. The blend of galaxy and citra pop off on their own, but when the hallertau blanc comes in, we're in new territory. truly elevated. biscuity! the guy talking about caramel malts was on to something, but was fucking way off on everything else. Just try this beer. Stop reading drunk imbecile's ramblings.

Find this, slurp this, and enjoy.

Poured into a Fremont small snifter. Pours a medium orange amber with a fine one finger off-white head with great retention and lacing. The color is interesting for an IPA, looks more like a Belgian ale. Aroma is dominated by tropical and citrus fruit, quite dank, caramel malt. Flavor is caramel malt, dank and juicy hops with citrus, piney and tropical fruit notes, deceptively integrated and smooth until a big, flavorful burst of hop alpha oils finishes off the taste, leaving bright citrus and tropical flavors with light resins and mild esters. Medium to heavy bodied with pleasant creaminess and good carbonation. I approached this with a little trepidation because Three Magnets' Big Juice was one of my favorite IPAs in the last year and this one promised to be bigger and juicier. No worries. It doesn't seem to be juicier, but it is certainly bigger with all the character of a triple IPA. And it is juicy, like the double version, it leaves real tasting fruit and esters in the finish which is very nice. The triple IPA style often overlaps with barleywines, making this in the spectrum of my favorite ales, and this one seems to be more fully in the triple IPA arena; the thick caramel maltiness of a barleywine is not as evident here, but there is still well balanced malt support that adds plenty of character. I really like this from start to finish, and appreciated that since I had to sip it slowly because of the fairly well covered ABV, there was plenty of residual interesting hop flavors to linger well after the taste. I like this a lot and will have to score another one to age; the hops may be too intense to age elegantly, but I'm willing to find out, I think the malt is up to it.