Barrel House Boss Cox Double Dark IPA

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

A rich transparent reddish brown, it generates a very thick and fluffy tan head when poured. Aroma is strong and hoppy, with a hint of spice and a touch of molasses. Flavor is mainly hoppy but surprisingly the bitterness level is low; there is a hint of sweetness. Texture is very smooth, and aftertaste has nice mix of hop bitterness and treacle-like sweetness.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours dark brown with red highlights, perfect clarity, and tall, thick head. Aroma profile includes caramel, ripe fruit, tropical fruit, and a hint of dark chocolate. The flavor is malty-to-balanced with a dry, roasty finish. Medium bodied and smooth with moderate warming affect. Interesting creation.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Sampled from bottle. Pours mahogany with a very thick, creamy head. Perhaps I have an aged bottle because the aroma hops are quite muted for the style. Overripe plum and licorice notes too. Bitter, but not agressively so. The malt profile reminds me of an English old ale - lots of dark sugars and a seemingly high final gravity. Full-bodied. A good beer but not the type of IIPA I'm used to - and I'm not the biggest fan of old ales...

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

This poured a dark copper color with a moderate head. The aroma is citrus, chocolate, and caramel. The flavor contains caramel and some citrus in the background. This one is not very similar to the typical IPAs. Overall nothing fantastic but it was pretty good.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

From a bottle. Pours a hazy dark orange/light brown. Aroma is malty and sweet with caramel undertones. Flavor is sweet up front with an nice hop bitterness. It fades quickly though. Overall a really good beer. Probably the best I've had from Barrel House.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 7

This brewery is new to Georgia and I decided to pick up a couple of bombers of their offerings and this one is the biggest of all of them in alcohol. Aroma on this brew is very acidity and citrusy with hoppy bitter and dried flowers coming through with even some ripened tropical fruit as well as sweet maltiness and even bitter chocolate. Appearance is a dark, chestnut burgundy in color with some brownish overtones with a rocky and well carbonated head on top that is full and frothy and dissipates only slightly and is light-tan in color(color here is almost like a Scottish style-ale or Indian Brown ale--I assume that is why it is called double dark). The mouthfeel is medium-bodied with enormous complexity of hops as well as malty balance with a palate that is thick and dry to some extent but very satisfying. The flavor is malty sweet with hoppy resin and pine with some grapefruit as well as citrus with an aftertaste that is dry and hoppiness dominates with a finish that is smooth, bitter sweet maltiness and hops with some chocolate and burnt and woody overtones. Overall, very smooth beer with no alcohol detectable and reminds me of a Scottish style-strong ale or hoppy brown ale; nonetheless, a great beer here and the color is not characteristic of an Impy IPA but what a great beer!