Category Archives: American Double IPA

4 - Good (buy), American Double IPA, Beer Reviews, Mikkeller Brewing NYC, USA

Mikkeller NYC Chop Shop #2

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Brewery: Mikkeller Brewing NYC
Country: USA
ABV: 8.3%
Style: American Double IPA
Other Notes: ₡hop Shop, our series of experimental imperial IPAs

Brewer Description: (from mikkeller.nyc, 17th June 2018 Instagram posting) ₡hop Shop #2 (8.3%) is double dry-hopped with Galaxy 🇦🇺, Wai-iti 🇳🇿, and Hallertau Blanc 🇩🇪 hops, atop a malt bill loaded with wheat and oats.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.01
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.8

Intro: A one pint can, canned on 15th June 2018, ‘chop shop-2’. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass.
Appearance: A hazy murky dark orange colour with an almost two finger off-white head that had decent retention and left only some sparse spotty lacing.
Aroma: Tropical mango, papaya, citrusy orange, grapefruit rind and peel and pine.
Taste: Lightly sweet and bitter, mango, pineapple, orange rind, lightly dank, pine resin.
Mouthfeel: Thick, medium to full bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Slightly overly thick, but nice and juicy aroma and flavours making it quite easy to enjoy.

4 - Good (buy), American Double IPA, Beer Reviews, Mikkeller San Diego, USA

Mikkeller San Diego Mr. Manager

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Brewery: Mikkeller San Diego
Country: USA
ABV: 8%
Style: American Double IPA
Other Notes: Hop Series

Brewer Description: (from can) Double dry-hopped, New England Style, Double India Pale Ale.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.25
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A one pint can, with a Julian canned on date of 18163, meaning that it was canned on 12th June 2018, ‘We just say manager’. Poured into a white wine glass.
Appearance: A hazy orange colour with a nice two finger white head that had good retention and left lots of nice lacing.
Aroma: Fruity, light tropical mango, cantaloupe, lots of citrus orange, orange rind and fresh orange juice.
Taste: Lightly bitter and sweet, tropical mango, cantaloupe, honeydew, citrus orange, orange rind.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Very nice and easy to drink with a good mix of melon flavours and citrus orange.

4 - Good (buy), American Double IPA, Beer Reviews, Highland Park Brewery, USA

Highland Park Yeah Yeah

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Brewery: Highland Park Brewery
Country: USA
ABV: 8%
Style: American Double IPA
Other Notes: Hazy Double IPA w/ Mosaic, Simcoe & Vic Secret

Brewer Description: (from ‘currently on tap’ list Hermosillo) Hazy Double IPA – Vic Secret, Mosaic and Simcoe. Pineapple, Stone Fruit, Tree Sap. Yeast: US05 and London 3.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.24
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 16 fl. oz. can with no clear canned on or best before date. Poured into a MBCC 2018 stemmed tasting glass.
Appearance: A hazy golden orange colour with a very thin less than half finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly but left some light lacing.
Aroma: Lemon, lemon peel and pineapple with a touch of papaya and kiwi.
Taste: Juicy and lightly bitter. Papaya, pomelo, pineapple, melon, pomelo rind and peel.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: A nice and great tasting Double IPA. On a side note, I also love the can whose design means you could flip it upside down and it would still appear the same.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), American Double IPA, Beer Reviews, Mikkeller Brewing NYC x Other Half Brewing, USA

Mikkeller NYC x Other Half All Royal Everything

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Brewery: Mikkeller Brewing NYC x Other Half Brewing
Country: USA
ABV: 10%
Style: American Double IPA
Other Notes: Queen’s Edition. Collaboration with Other Half Brewing

Brewer Description: (from Mikkeller NYC menu) IIPA w/ Idaho-7, Amarillo, Mosaic & Citra.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.57
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.5

Intro: A 1 pint can, canned on 1st May 2018. Poured into a MBCC 2018 taster glass.
Appearance: A cloudy dark orange colour with a one finger white head that had good retention and left some nice lacing.
Aroma: Pineapple, pine, peach, mandarin, sweet marmalade and a touch of bitter grapefruit peel.
Taste: Sweet, peach, pineapple, malt, honey, with light spice, light herbal and light bitterness on the finish.
Mouthfeel: Full to medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Aromas were good, but on the whole, perhaps too sweet for my liking. The light bitterness at the end was not enough to balance the sweetness from the malt.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), American Double IPA, Beer Reviews, Brewski, Sweden

Brewski Red Robot DIPA

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Brewery: Brewski
Country: Sweden
ABV: 7.5%
Style: American Double IPA
Other Notes: Double India Pale Ale. Only real fruit inside!

Brewer Description: (from bottle) Charming and cute as they are, the capabilities and intelligence of “emotional” robots are still very limited. They don’t have feelings and are simply programmed to detect emotions and respond accordingly. But things are set to change very rapidly and they just learned how to give robot hugs. So lets enjoy a hug from this little red robot with lots of love, passionfruit and pineapple.

My rating: 3
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.68
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.6

Intro: A 330ml bottle with a best before date of 16th May 2019, ‘B6 robotbin’. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass.
Appearance: A hazy yellow orange colour with a one finger white head that had decent retention and left some lacing.
Aroma: Pineapple, melon, mango and pine with hints of orange rind and zest.
Taste: Grapefruit and underripe fresh orange juice with touches of mango and pine resin.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: This was quite good, but I didn’t really get any of the passionfruit or pineapple that was supposedly there in the taste. There was a lot more citrus that the expected tropical fruits.