Full Sail Slipknot Imperial IPA

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

Pours clear coppery amber with a thick and rather persistent pale buff head. Aroma delivers a strong note of resiny and slightly woody hops, as well as orange and grapefruit notes. Bold flavor ramps up these tones and adds more wood, as well as notes of malt and pear. Finish has just a hint of spice, while body is firm and smooth yet fizzy and lively. Slip one down your throat - you will knot regret it.

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

2010 brewmaster reserve. Pours a dirty copper with a medium-sized white head that hangs around. Based solely on the aroma, I would never guess this was an IIPA--some hops but more malt than anything. Taste is plenty bitter though. I wish there was more citrus/floral hops in the aroma and taste.

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

Bottle from Bevmo La Jolla. Pours with a golden amber body topped by a thick, quickly disappearing head with good lacing. It’s slightly sweet yet hoppy with grassy and piney notes, as well as some alcohol esters. Medium bodied, smooth and a touch dry.

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

This is about the 4th time I’ve had Slipknot and each time it’s very enjoyable but seems to be missing something to really push it into the upper echelon’s of IIPA’s for me. Don’t know if it needs more hops, or more body but it lacks something. STILL, very easy to enjoy and I always grab a few bombers when I run accross them.

This bottle, the beer pours out a dark, golden yellow/light amber color with a sizeable white head with nice retention. Aroma starts out with a noticeable malt profile, caramel and iced tea notes and then the hops show up and then make you notice. Citrusy, orangey hops with a showing of pine too. Flavor has some light toasted malt notes, definitely piney with light caramel showing up. It definitely showcases the hops, but they aren’t overpowering like a good IIPA should be. It’s balanced, which is good but I do like my IIPA’s to be an avalance of hoppy goodness.

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

Pours a medium caramel colour .. . medium average head .. . mouthfeel is pure, fantastic stuff, squeaky clean .. . pretty hopped up ... is there anyone here who didn't think she was talking about a goat??

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

This was a big one to handle for my first beer of the evening, but after awhile it is easier to drink. I read most reviews on here before I opened my beer. So let me say this with the respect.. Slowrunner77 you have no idea what you are talking about.

Aroma was Hoptastic, the most pine of any IIPA or DIAP I have ever encountered. Pours opaque in nature but a very nice burt Yellow with some head. Medium body but was hot at times but the carbonation was balanced. Flavor was very hoppy and bitter. There was some malt structure but it really was all grapefruit and pine. This beer finished very dry.

The First couple of swallows I did not like it.... But after awhile I really liked it. At times I thought I just crushed a hop pellet up in put it in my glass. I know I will get shot for this but I have to say it... this beer was better than Pliny the Elder.

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

a solid drinkable beer, but doesn't stand a chance against the big boys. doesn't do anything wrong, just doesn't do enough right. solid pine/citrus aroma and flavor, just not strong enough.

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

A vigorous pour yields a three-finger thick, tan colored head that sits on top of a brilliantly clear, lightly amber tinged, cherry colored beer. When held up to the light the beer shows a full copper color. Quit hop dominated of course, the hop character learns towards a dank, herbal not scented with a healthy dollop of tropical fruit. Aromas of essential hemp oil, a touch of green onion and pine sap mixes with aromas of lychee, touch of pineapple, concentrated apricot and a mix of candied citrus peel notes (tangelo, bergamot, and ruby-red grapefruit). A bit more focused on the herbaceous, green herb side of the hop spectrum than I usually prefer, but it is still an enjoyable brew to smell.

Sweetish malt notes are the first thing I notice, but then an aggressive carbonation kicks in which makes the beer a bit more foamy than I would like (luckily a quick swirl of the glass releases the excess carbonation). As I swirl the beer I begin to notice a sharp, aggressive bitterness that is both herbal and astringent. The bitterness is very effective in drying the mouth out after a sip. The malt sweetness accents hoppy tropical fruit notes up front, but they succumb pretty quickly to the aggressive, herbal, pine-tar like flavors that come to dominate this beer. This has a light heft to it that makes this approachable enough to have IPA on the label. The alcohol provides a touch of warming to the finish and this mixes in with the sharp hop notes that are found there as well.

This beer is just too aggressive an overbearing. The herbal notes just overtake the flavor profile of this beer making it overly astringent and bitter. While not a horrible beer, it is just too unbalanced for me (even though I think of myself as a hop-head).

Purchased: BevMo, Tucson AZ

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Bottle from Tops in Tempe on the fly while picking up an AS Speedway (only 2 beers this time). Saw the within style rating after buying and was a little bummed. Fortunately, however, this thing kicked butt and the heck with the rest of you raters who don't know what you're doing (J/K!). A nice typical pour, amberish in color, carbonation bubbles visible and slowly rising, although the head and lacing could have been better. The aroma was wonderful rich grapefruits and other citrus elements, maybe the most variety of citrus things going on ever in a single beer (never knew there was so much to citrus?). The flavor also kicked butt, finishing with firm bitterness to balance a maltiness that was neither sweet nor alcy hot. The heck with you all on this rating, excellent brew.

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

Pours to a amber hue with a light white head. Taste is mellow with a very smooth palate. Wished based on other full sail ales that it had a little bit of extra umph behind the flavor, but still good.