Rich fine tan creamy head over deep caramel ale. The smell is orange marmalade with a sort of distinctly garlic-y hot heat. In the mouth eucalyptus and mint hops with orange peel and rich creamy malt closing into heat. A really fine double IPA, balanced - at 9% not overwhelming. A kinder gentler sibling of the same brewer's Eleven. A fine thing in the shade on the hot day with a stinky blue cheese and a good loaf as children draw with chalk around you.
Planned by the brewer to be a softer gentler version of a big hop bomb. 100% BAer approval noted and well worthy.
Comments
David - June 9, 2007 11:20 PM
I tried Weyerbacher's Simcoe Double IPA just this year for the first time and loved it. I've always been a big fan of IPA's and the doubles in particular. And being from PA I've always liked what the Weyerbacher brewery has had to offer also. So it wasn't a big leap in trying this beer. I'd rank it up there in probably my top ten overall for this microbrew style. Very nice and complex enough to have a second. Probably not a third though given the abv. Excellent brew!