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Founders – Doom Bourbon Barrel IIPA

Founders – Doom Bourbon Barrel IIPA, 2017, 12.4%ABV, 355ml bottle.

Notes: – Founders Barrel Aged/Backstage Series # 6: Doom Imperial IPA

Drank on 13/12/2017, from I.B.S.

Appearance: 2.5 – Slightly translucent orange sunset, nice head with slight lacing.

Smell/Aroma: 2.5 – Mango, fruity, slightly malty.

Taste: 3 – Like a moderate IPA with a fruity hop character, has that malt sweetness. then a hop hit to the front of the tongue. Then you get this bitterness at the back and, OK 12% theres the slight alcohol. So well hidden, scary. Its big but in stages.Gets more sweet malts as you sip and it warms.

Mouthfeel/Palate: 2.5 – Its all over with the bitterness. None of it bad.

Over all: 3.5 – This is kinda good, its bourbon barrel aged and an Imperial IPA, its heaps hoppy but its balanced with the hot alcohol and the sweet malts that cover that. This is stupid big, but drinkable.

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Beers 18/8/16

Founders – Re Dank Ulous Imperial Red IPA

8 Wire – Palate Trip Sour IPA

The Founders IRIPA was not very dank, to be honest, I wanted it to be a real dank stinker, but it was just a good beer. Not much else to say. It was good.

The 8 Wire sour IPA is really damn good. The bitter and the sour collide at the right point and work awesome together. Very tart, bitter, nice stuff. This is a style I would like to drink more of.

Beers 12/8/16

Sierra Nevada – Hoptimum IPA

Founders – Mosaic Promise Single Hop Ale

Mornington Peninsula Brewing – Dogs Bollocks Nitro English Special Bitter

Anderson Valley – Briney Melon Gose

Been over IPA’s for forever now, no Idea why I still buy them. Hoptimum was peppery, very hop bitter.

Mosaic Promise wasnt bad, but I didnt get a sense of Mosaic, unless its a standard Founders hop and then its just a common hop taste…

Beers 13/4/16

Petrus – Oud Bruin

Petrus – Aged Pale

Petrus – Aged Red

Founders – Spectra Trifecta – Kolsch style

Moon Dog – Old Mate – Pale ale

Moon Dog – Mack Daddy – Dark ale

Notes:

Moon Dog pale ale was more hoppy than most IPA’s, Moon Dog is usually very up front I find, love their stuff, though, this was good if not a bit too bitter for me for a pale ale. yes, it did have the fruity nose they offered.

Founders kolsch smelled lovely, tasted a bit too hoppy for a kolsch for me, but still good doing its own thing, cinnamon? definitely, lemongrass? a bit, no ginger, though its on their label prominently.

The Petrus Aged Pale was NOT what I was expecting at all going in blind, I have only had Oud Bruin from Petrus previously, and never had an aged pale ale before. Very awesome beer, and noticed it in the next beer

The aged red was very sour cherry and real nice, sour cherry always has a “fake” taste to me, for some reason, thats cherrys fault, not the beers, liked it. Not overbearing, but def a sometimes beers.

Mack Daddy is super low carbonation and has heaps of malt bitterness, its OK at best. Theres better in this style.

Oud Bruin is still just that and a great beer. Love it.