7 Suns Double IPA
7 Mile Brewery

13 oz. pour on draught at the brewery. Served in a snulip glass. It pours a hazy, burnished orange color with a modest, creamy, ecru-colored head and lacing. The smell features lemon, grapefruit, pine needles, floral hops, and just a whiff of caramel. It's a really nice nose. The taste is pure West Coast IPA: Strong, tart, grapefruit rind and lemon peel with abundant resious pine. I'm not tasting the caramel that I smelled. The hop bill isn't specified but it's quite bitter (90 IBU). Its mouth feel is crisp and surprisingly lite for its 7.5% ABV. It goes down easily. Overall, the best thing about 7 Suns Double IPA is its bitterness. Unlike many east coast renditions of the style the malt presence is minimal. If you like bitterness, tart citrus and resinous pine, then you'll enjoy this DIPA.

on draft, served in a plastic cup (COVID times)

Very dark copper color, white head. Aroma and taste is very old school DIPA. Caramel malt, American C hops, strong bitterness. Medium bodied.

 

On tap at Morris Tap & Grill in Randolph. Pours a ruddy, copper hue with minimal frothing. Moderate aroma replete with hints of tangerine and grapefruit. Similar overall flavor profile.

 

 

Big, frothy head three fingers high, light tan to eggshell white, excellent density and retention, lasts forever, the lacing comprised of long, thin streaks crisscrossing the glass like a web. The liquid is a shiny, clean coppery orange hue, curiously hardly any visible bubbles. There is a pungent dankness to the nose, leafy and close to vegetal, metal shavings and earth, slowly shifts into biscuit, cracked pepper, wet asphalt and tangerine pulp, the basic peach, apricot, pineapple fruit scents lost in the shuffle. Full-bodied, while the carbonation is creamy on the whole it keeps moving and thus there is some freshness and relief from the weight. Spotlights the tangerine, blood orange to lesser white grapefruit citrus, more tang than juiciness. Spicy, peppery with a quinine, mineral water edge. Caught between bread crusts and burnt pie crust. Echoes of maple syrup and honey. The pineapple, nectarine, papaya fruit still dry here but better knit into the whole. However, this is just one of those beers where just when you think you are locked into that plateau of simple enjoyment it swerves off the road. So, after awhile you just stop trying.

Looks orange marmalade color with nice thick creamy head. Smells dank,cherry,pineapple.Taste is somewhat of a let down. Was expecting more kick considering the look and smell. It tastes somewhat bland. Pick up stone fruit taste in this beer.It honestly feels like it needs more carbonation. The head was like 4" thick, maybe that's were the bubbles went. Not bad, if not semi flat tasting it would be very good.Revision; after trying the next day,I very carefully poured in Belgian beer glass. Helped with the carbonation somewhat. It still tastes like this is a 1 hop IPA

 

I poured from the can into a wine glass (it's allI had in vacation rental in Cape May). This a surprisingly delicious beer. Fantastic aroma hits your nose immediately. Notes of oranges and bitter hops are well balanced in this double IPA.