Awesome DIPA…balanced even! Ballast Point may be the most underrated brewery in the US. Outside the SoCal area that is. Back to my notes, if anyone gives a turd:

“Hazed nectarine. Blotchy, sustained alabaster suds. Errant lines of big bubbled carbonation. Shaved pink grapefruit pith and tangerine juice aroma with zesty annotations throughout. Initially plush, juiced grapefruit and tangerine hoppy with a powdered sugar and pine aftertaste. Lively fullness and slightly creamy but not thickly so and rigidly hopped to offset. Deep bitterness is clasping yet never comes across as harsh or over the top invasive. Mild tropical flower nectar accents dot the pale malt sweetness along with a skimming of the palest caramel. Finishes slick and citrusy with faint pine dust, mango and crushed sugar accents abounding. Such a great Double IPA.”

I really like Dorado Double, more than the Weyerbacher Double Simcoe, for instance. And you gave that one of your 2006 awards.

My preference is toward the lean, dry Double IPAs (but not ones that require a tongue scraper).

BUT I am only vouching for the Dorado Double here. Not every Double/Imperial IPA.

No crap required guys… I never said I didn’t like beers like this.