Duchess the Elephant
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L: A warm and milky pineapple glow with a finger of yellow-tinged froth, having decent retention and leaving a sticky mountain range of lace in it's wake.

S: Lemon pith and some serious herbal notes are complimented by citrus, spirits, and evergreens.

T: Follows the nose but with some more tropical flavors in the mix - I mostly picked up on mango.

F: Juicy and between sweet and off-dry, a strong bitter finish.

O: Had two of these and they did not dissapoint. I didn't think Vic Secret was my thing, but in the end I personally would even put this above Double Grid which I thoroughly enjoyed!

2020-12-22
16oz can served in a big snifter. Dated 11/02/20. Bought it on Tavour.

Pours a hazy pale yellow with a big fluffy head and medium carbonation. Smell is super tropical, mango and papaya and pineapple.

Taste is also super juicy, tropical, with a resinous backbone that barely supports all the sweet fruitiness.

Mouthfeel is smooth and fluffy. Overall, very nice beer.

A: The beer is very hazy to cloudy yellow in color. It poured with a quarter finger high white head that hardly died down and left lots of lacing down the sides of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of gooseberries and grapefruit hops are present in the nose.
T: The taste has flavors of honeydew melon and lime along with hints of grapefruit and pine towards the finish. Little to no bitterness is perceptible.
M: It feels medium-bodied, juicy and a bit smooth on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: I thought that this IPA has a very interesting contrast of flavors from the hops, particularly those between the melon and pine.

Serving type: can

 

 

 

 

11/2 canning date. Light tan orange, dirty, mild head and lacing. Smell is citrusy, dank, bready. Taste is juicy, orange, mango, papaya, lemon peel notes. Grassy, dank, slightly bitter aftertaste. Mouth watering, medium body, good booze presence. Tasty juice bomb.

Very fresh tasting. Brewed 3Nov, this rating 6Nov. 16oz can pour to heavily frosted pub glass. Hazy, opaque hue of milky orange. Sweet nose, foamy head, spotty lacing. Three hop varieties used to create a suberb balance of hop, Citra, fruit. Smooth on palate, finish crisp clean. Another huge double NE-IPA winner from Hop Butcher. WOW!

Tasted in a Spiegelau IPA glass from a one pint can on October 18, 2019. Double India Pale Ale brewed with Vic Secret, Cashmere and Centennial-hops. Tasty haze.

 

 

Thanks to C. for this 16 oz. can from another fantasy baseball box. My second Hop Butcher.

The pour could teach orange juice a thing or two. The nose is muted orange creamsicle.

Duchess the Elephant. A lovely mingling of orange juice, papaya, melon, with a finish of just enough bitterness to keep it from turning into a fruit salad. Dry. The combo makes it easy to sip.

Not much to say about this beer – it’s a solid shotgun marriage of old & new styles. Very good brew.

 

All the Hop Butcher DIPAs smell,look, and have a perfect mouth feel. This hits all their high marks for taste as well. Worth looking out for even if not their very best.