Fresh Hop Double IPA
Old Yale Brewing Co.
- From:
- Old Yale Brewing Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.14 | pDev: 12.08%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 07, 2017
- Added:
- Nov 05, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Sid_Smith from Canada (AB)
4.84/5 rDev +16.9%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.84/5 rDev +16.9%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Amazing beer for any hop lover. I highly reccomend it. Crisp, piney citrusy and the exact right amount of bitterness. Looks a tad cloudy but that's okay with me. Smells godly. The perfect amount of carb (med-high). It was 10 bucks but totally worth it, buy it while you can!
Feb 02, 2017
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.83/5 rDev -7.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.83/5 rDev -7.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - DIPA does not equal IPA, so here we go, new entry!
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent and delicate Bonsai tree lace around the glass as it slowly evaporates.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser caramel sweetness, muddled domestic citrus rind, a hint of wet breakfast biscuit, subtle flinty notes, ground black pepper, and more leafy, earthy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and lightly doughy caramel malt, a nice earthy biscuit character, some laid-back citrus fleshiness, a touch of that wet stone path after a rainstorm thing, and a heady dose of weedy, herbaly (thanks, Findlay!), and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate for the job at hand, via its sturdy frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of verdant acridity taking the sheen off of things here. It finishes off-dry, the malt sort of teetering, while the citrus and pine-forward hops swirl and twirl about, carefree as a summer day.
Overall, this is a rather impressive example of the sub-style of IPAs released at this time of year - nicely hoppy, and bitter, but with a pleasant malt offset. Worthy of a go, even if the 13-proof wowee sauce quotient is kind of weak sauce for a so-called Double IPA.
Nov 11, 2016This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent and delicate Bonsai tree lace around the glass as it slowly evaporates.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser caramel sweetness, muddled domestic citrus rind, a hint of wet breakfast biscuit, subtle flinty notes, ground black pepper, and more leafy, earthy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and lightly doughy caramel malt, a nice earthy biscuit character, some laid-back citrus fleshiness, a touch of that wet stone path after a rainstorm thing, and a heady dose of weedy, herbaly (thanks, Findlay!), and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate for the job at hand, via its sturdy frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of verdant acridity taking the sheen off of things here. It finishes off-dry, the malt sort of teetering, while the citrus and pine-forward hops swirl and twirl about, carefree as a summer day.
Overall, this is a rather impressive example of the sub-style of IPAs released at this time of year - nicely hoppy, and bitter, but with a pleasant malt offset. Worthy of a go, even if the 13-proof wowee sauce quotient is kind of weak sauce for a so-called Double IPA.
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