Scratch Beer 185 - 2015 (Double IPA)
Tröegs Brewing Company
- From:
- Tröegs Brewing Company
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8.8%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.02 | pDev: 1%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 07, 2015
- Added:
- Apr 30, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Spring has finally sprung, and lush green foliage decorates the landscape everywhere across Central PA! So what better time than now to release an excessively hopped Double IPA packed with sticky, jade-colored cones evoking the resurgence of the spring season? Featuring a collection of vibrant American hops, Scratch #185 radiates shades of spicy grapefruit rind, juicy passion fruit, pungent pine sap, and subtle earthy herbs. One thing’s for sure… this Double IPA has sent cold weather packing for good! How do you like us now, Old Man Winter?
74 IBU
74 IBU
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by orangesol from Pennsylvania
3.99/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Served on-tap at the brewery. Pours amber orange with a half finger tall white head, quickly dissipating down to a light ring around the edge, leaving small streaks on the sides of the glass.
Smells of tons of sticky pine resin, bit of fresh cut grass, dash of citric fruit rind, some earthy hops, mild and lightly toasted grain and the ever present house yeast. Taste is pretty much identical to the nose with plenty of pine resin throughout with the citric, grassy and earthy hops offering some contrasting flavors. Malt and yeast bring up the rear after the bitterness dies off a bit. Big, sticky feel from start to finish. Tiny bit of booze creeps in once it warms up but it remains pretty drinkable.
Overall a solid enough DIPA. Wish the pine resin flavor could be toned down a bit to allow the rest of the flavors to shine a bit more but it's still a nice enough beer.
May 01, 2015Smells of tons of sticky pine resin, bit of fresh cut grass, dash of citric fruit rind, some earthy hops, mild and lightly toasted grain and the ever present house yeast. Taste is pretty much identical to the nose with plenty of pine resin throughout with the citric, grassy and earthy hops offering some contrasting flavors. Malt and yeast bring up the rear after the bitterness dies off a bit. Big, sticky feel from start to finish. Tiny bit of booze creeps in once it warms up but it remains pretty drinkable.
Overall a solid enough DIPA. Wish the pine resin flavor could be toned down a bit to allow the rest of the flavors to shine a bit more but it's still a nice enough beer.
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