Double IPA - Double Dry-Hopped - Red Wine Barrel-Aged
Stoudts Brewing Co.

 

Purchased at brewery. Since they use low-end machines that don’t itemize, I don’t know what I paid for anything.
Undated bottle at 42 degrees into a hand washed and dried JK snifter
Aroma – spicy hops, lasts
Head – ridiculous. First pour gave about one cm of liquid and the balance (eight cm) foam, over the rim and over the counter. When it began to subside, I carefully added some more beer and got a repeat performance. The third pour (down the side of the glass, slooowly) finally gave me adequate liquid for the picture.
Lacing – good. Partial rings of tiny to small bubbles with stalactites and stalagmites and isolated small islands forming archipelagoes
Body orange, hazy, some of which is chill related
Flavor – really not very good, in fact once the fizziness leaves your mouth, so does any flavor. I poured part of the bottle into a pint nonic so I could swirl it more violently to release the CO2. This helped – now I can taste the hops somewhat. Again the hops flavor is ephemeral but now I get some malt sweetness and flavor with no vinous qualities from the red wine barrel aging. No alcohol is tasted or felt as a stomach burn.
Palate medium, oily, fizzy

Appearance 4, Aroma 4, Flavor 3, Palate 2.75, Overall 2.75