Grand Teton Lost Continent

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

In Idaho and looking for local favorites, I was pointed to this beer at Marcellars in Idaho Falls. It's a typical orangy colored DIPA with light soapy head. Smell is typical as well, sweet and hoppy. Mouth is a bit thin for the style but not watery at all. Flavor is a little flat as well but not bad. When in Rome...

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

From Aug KnoxBeerCrew tasting. Lightly hazy orange-amber pour, medium head, some lacing. Grapefruit and apricot nectar hop aroma, earthy, some sweet malts. Taste is grapefruity and peachy, almost syrupy mouthfeel, some fruitiness, nice bitter linger.

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

Sampled from bottle, thanks to Dansting! Pours hazy dark gold with a thin white head. Fruity candy-like aroma. Resinous Hop-dominant flavor with a lingering bitterness. medium-full body with zesty carbonation. Barely a dipa, but a pleasant IPA nonetheless.

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

Bottled in July. Pours a clear, golden orange with a medium white head. Aroma is a veritable fruit salad with oranges, tangerines, apricots, pineapple and grapefruit all showing thru. Taste was a bit disappointing though. With so much hops in the aroma, I expected much more bitterness but was left with a lot of sweetness. Good DIPA but I was hoping for a more intense bitterness in the flavor.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

12 oz bottle. Pours a hazy golden amber with a smallish creamy white head that retains well and laces the glass.

The aroma is lots of melon and cola with some pine and some caramel malts.

The flavor is sweet caramel malts and melon and some cola with a nice amount of resiny bitterness in the finish. The mouthfeel is medium bodied and slightly watery.

Overall, a very nice DIPA - I was pleasantly surprised. It's a little on the sweet side, but the sweet melon goes well with the resiny hops. Tone down the sweetness a tad and lose some of the cola and this is terrific.

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

Relatively light color for a DIPA, a light, golden amber hue. Some lacing. Fairly standard look for a DIPA, which is a good thing, although it’s a tad cloudier. Good orange-flavored hop scents dominate the aroma. There’s a touch of pine resin in there, too, but it’s more on the sweet citric end of the hop spectrum, almost verging into tangerine/pineapple country. There’s some good caramel malt to back up the hops, but it just doesn’t have the punch of the top tier DIPAs. The beer tends to get a bit cloyingly sweet. It’s still bitter, but the malt is boozy sweet and the hops are a bit one note after a little while. Then again, I like hops and DIPAs, and I am definitely still enjoying the beer.

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

Been keeping my eye on this one for awhile now, so when I found it for $2.99 a bottle, it was a no-brainer. I’ve enjoyed most Grand Teton products, and this was no different. However, it seemed much closer to a hoppy barleywine than a hoppy IIPA. The beer pours out a beautiful light amber body, clear, small tight bubbles floating up to meet a fluffy 1/2" off white soapy head. Scattered lacing left behind. Aroma has some light citrusy hops/arange juice, wet paper, and huge malts stomping on anything trying to crawl out from under that footprint. Flavor is just nearly overbearingly sweet, but there is a bite of hops that helps reign in some of the sweetness, but not much. Reminded me quite a bit of DFH 90 minute with the overhanded sweetness. Subtle cheese and paper notes on the finish, which tells me this might not be the most freshest of bottles. Not bad, but the residual sweetness seems uncontrolled. Or at least, out of place.

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

On draught at the Alchemy in Madison: Poured a bright semi-cloudy golden- orange colour with nice fluffy head. Aroma is fun. Brigt and fresh with lots of citrus(as probably expected) and stinky hops. Taste is very astringent. Sort of on the dryer side and has a real firm hop kick. Yet delectable. Sweet and bitter at the same time. What funky beer! I love it :)

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

Sampled on 9/5/2009. This Imperial IPA pours a deep orange gold color from a 12oz bottle. Medium sized white foamy head, nice lacing and decent retention. The aroma is orange and tangerine with some citrusy hops. A medium bodied Imperial IPA. The malts are fruity and sweet with a whole bunch of citrus. The hops are citrusy and grapefruit. Nice balance. Kind of sweet and citrusy. The bitterness is kind of hidden, doesn’t smack you in the face but kind of grows on you. Nice balance. More to the malt side, with a nice dose of tangerine and orange. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 3

A vigorous pour into my 25cl tulip glass produces a four finger thick, light tan colored head. The beer is murky, orange amber color that shows a deeply hazy light amber color when held up to the light. The aroma is sticky with caramelized malt notes and candied hop aromatics; seemingly aggressive crystal malt notes competes with and at times beats into submission the ample hop character found in the nose. Lots of stewed crystal malt aromas, caramel, toasted malt, and dirty sweet tea aromas sort of confuse the grapefruit, bergamot and candied pine hop notes that should be the focus of this aroma. The aroma makes this seem like a malt lovers attempt at making a Double IPA. While they actually used some hops in this, it is quite well obscured underneath all the malt. Probably one of the most “balanced” double IPAs I have ever had, too bad the malt character is a bit too dirty and the overall aroma just doesn’t seem to ever come together harmoniously.

The taste is not quite as sweet as the aroma would have suggested and actually starts out with a clean hop character. Towards the finish the cloying crystal malt character provides muddy caramel notes and ample toasty malt character before a light for an IPA bitterness is able to kick in. The malt character never leaves the finish though and comes to make the palate forget the bitterness existed at all. Sticky caramelized orange zest flavors, stewed grapefruit and some sweetened pine needle flavors struggle through the murky malt character here. The body is actually the one part of this beer that is in line with a good example of a Double IPA, it is light enough to even be quaffable. The hop character provides a green, somewhat astringent, herbal, pine biting bitterness throughout the flavor profile; this makes a valiant attempt at cutting through the malt focus, but in the end isn’t quite up to the task.

This beer actually doesn’t have much in the way of process / fermentation flaws, so there will probably be quite a few consumers that will enjoy this. Having said that, I absolutely hated it and found it a complete waste of time. This is just a horrible example of an IPA for me though. The malt is huge here; this can actually be ok in a Double IPA, but then the brewer needs to ensure that they stuff an insane amount of hop character in the beer so that it thoroughly dominates the malt character. If you are afraid of hops & really like crystal malt then this might be your perfect example of a Double IPA.