Profile of ibrew2or3
Profile of ibrew2or3
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PalsFrom Tempe, AZ, United States
Last seen drinking Pizza Port Swami's I.P.A. 18 hours ago
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ibrew2or3. I love me sum barleywine.
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9
Rated July 2016. 22oz bomber pours with a crystal clear deep copper body that supports a thin light tan head. The aroma offers up grapefruit, mango, orange, a spicy wooden note and then some vanilla. The taste delivers a large wide load of grapefruit, tangerine, mango and orange juiciness and bitterness. Under the hop fruitiness is a smooth sweet vanilla carpet that is some how working oh so great here. The balance between juiciness, bitterness and smooth sweet vanilla is right there as the vanilla is an equal player here and is just right. Well done!
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Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9
Rated Aug. 2012. On tap at Pizza Port Carlsbad for $5 per half pint (kind of pricy . . . and I got two). It pours up clear deep gold with thin copper hues here and there and supporting up an off white head. The aroma, out of this little half pint tumbler, offers up some grapefruit, mango and fairly sharp resiny hop notes riding on the top of some booziness. The taste is similar as this is right to style with its bold to brash hops and booze. It seems like what I remember the Stone 10th Anniversary to be like while fresh except this beer isn’t as chewy and isn’t as insanely rich as that beer was. I get a pleasing load of grapefruit and tangelo hop flavor as well as a little mango that rolls quickly into bitter resiny hop goodness that only gives ground to a mild booziness. It ends with a very pleasing citrus hoppy goodness in my mouth demanding me to take another swig or go get that tiny expensive little tumbler re-filled. Since the body isn’t super chewy and super rich and along with the fresh hoppy goodness to me this seem dangerously sessionable, but that’s just me. I hope we get some here in AZ. The more I drink this the more I love it. I’m starting to think what more could you want in a IIPA? This hits on all cylinders as it’s rich, it’s bitter with rich hoppiness, full force hop flavor and it lets you know it has a sizable ABV. Great to style IIPA. This moves up a few more points for me. Damn!
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9
Rated Dec. 2020. 12oz can pours with a slightly hazy copper to gold colored body that supports a thin white head of. The aroma offers up resiny pine, tangerine and then a bit of pink grapefruit. The taste delivers a full flavor force of thick pine, grapefruit, thin mango and floral hoppiness that leans firmly in the direction of resiny hop bitterness. To midway the pine hops take on a wider yet more rounded thickness of depth. It ends with a blend of lingering pine and citrus hop bitterness. Solid brew with almost no sense of the ABV. Loving this.
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9
Rated Oct. 2016. 32oz growler pours with a crystal clear pure gold body that supports a light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up juicy orange and tangerine flowing into fresh smooth vanilla bean notes. The taste begins with juicy citrus hops along with a bigger citrus bitter hop bite. It then quickly rolls into smooth sweet vanilla bean that creates such a wonderful contrast to the mostly citrus bitter hoppiness. It then heads toward the finish with a pleasing woven tapestry of bitter citrus hops, some juicy citrus and a smooth sweet vanilla note. I love the way this comes together. Very fun and unique beer.
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Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 4
Rated July 2013. 20B Series, Batch 06. 50cl caged and corked bottle pours out with a clear copper body that supports a light tan head. The aroma is big oak, bourbon and then a mix of coconut and vanilla. At the end of the draw I notice some spicy oak coming through but I also notice I’m getting no beer aromatics. Is there beer in here? The taste begins with an all to brief pulse of vague hops before any semblance of "beer" flavors are swamped out by spicy oak, sweet vanilla and then semi sweet semi rough bourbon. This has way too much barrel time and bourbon for me. This may as well be barrel aged Busch Light. Very disappointing.
