Founders to release 4 Giants IIPA

I will grab a pack out of sheer curiosity. I don't think I have had a Founders IPA since Barrel Runner was around.

 

If they’re calling it a malty sweet backbone , and it clocks in at 9.2 abv, I can already taste the over the top sweetness. It’s like when the Dr tells this might hurt a bit.... and it does. They're telling you it’s sweet.... and I’m sure it will be. But I’d still try it although sweetish DIPAs aren’t my thing.

 

You are probably right it will be sweet but most doubles and triples are sweet to my pallet. Once you hit the ~10% abv level I just assume I'm going to have to deal with some sweetness. Double Two Hearted was extremely sweet to me but people seemed to love it. If they can keep the sweetness level in this below where Curmudgeon's Better Half was I'll be happy with it. I know it is a different style of beer but for comparing relative sweetness levels I don't mind comparing different styles.

 

Agree so hard.

Its incredibly difficult to produce a beer that features hops in such a high ABV without it being too sweet for this guy... outside of SoS and PtE, these types of beer don’t seem to ever have much balance to them, and even those two are *only* 8%.

 

Dale, I am in the same boat. I personally will not be drinking this beer.

Cheers!

 

I’ll drink a single if I can get one fresh, maybe just for a change of pace. Does not sound like the sweeter NEIPA styles like the 10% other half beers, guessing it’s a big malt bomb with lots of resinous bitterness from the description.

 

No idea why I read this as Troegs new DIPA, when I saw the package with the DT looking guy I was confused. Maybe I had nimble Giant in my head.

I need my coffee

To be on topic this does not sound like a beer I would like. Those sweet malty alcohol burn beers don’t do it for me.

Enjoy

 

Sounds like Hopslam, I always considered that a malty sweet beer and this sounds similar, least to me.

If I locate some singles I will do 2 to sample for sure, but nothing I am going to hunt for.


Cheers

 

One of the sweetest DIPAs I can remember was Southern Tier Unearthly, boy that beer was cloying sweet.......hope this isn't near that bad.

I'll try a 4 pack even though I'm not a sweet beer guy either. Curiosity peaked with the 7 hops thing.

 

To my palate (and working on memory) Double Two Hearted has more of a malty sweetness than Hopslam. I thought Hopslam was better last year than in the previous few. Seemed more hoppy than sweet. Admittedly I’m biased as I love honey.

In other Bell’s hallucinations I saw them post on Instagram bottles of Black Note Vanilla rolling on the line. Waiting with impatience on that one. Cheers!

 

I thought the exact same thing. To me, the sweetness works for Hopslam, maybe because it's so aggressively hopped. It's one of my favorites. I will be trying 4 Giants to see how it compares. May need more than one, though.

 

FWIW the sweetness level of Hopslam varies from year to year (or batch variation?) for my palate. Some years I enjoy drinking Hopslam and other years it is too sweet for my palate.

Cheers!

 

I'm sure I'll give it a try.

 

Same for me, I always get some each year and its hit and miss as to if I will like it or too sweet. I am going to give this stuff a try out of curiosity.
Cheers

 

Absolutely awful "art work".

 

Feels like very Against The Grain(y).