Bottleworks IPA
Made with special dedication for the West Coast’s most revered beer store, North Seattle’s Bottleworks.
3.7
207 reviews
Centralia, United States
Community reviews
[Bottle] shared by DalzAle. Pours a cloudy amber with a small beige head. Aroma is hoppy - grapefruit and orange being most prominent. There is also a bit of caramel malt presence as well. Flavor is quite bitter, nice forward maltiness, brown sugar and raisin, and a faded hoppiness. This was a nicely aged IPA - the malt backbone is strong enough to carry this beer through the couple years it has been aged.
Draght @ Brouwers - Pours a nice dk amber with a medium beige head...aroma is toffee and hops...oily and old noble hops, not bright or green...flavour is similar, slightly sweet caramel and doughy, more old hop resin...pretty okay...
Bottle from Cavie. Orange pour with a thick head. Aroma is brown sugar, and lots of hops. Taste is sweet, sugary, and hoppy.
Bottle courtesy of zdk9. Clear light orange red color. Salty smell with a fair smooth feeling of dark fruit. Finishes with salty sweetness. Flavored light touch to the skin as well. Nice.
( 22oz bomber thanks to BA zdk9) Pours clear orange with light bubbles. Nose of chlorine, caramel, honey and tangerine. Taste of earth, oranges, caramel, syrupy with a lightly bitter syrupy finish. Some toastiness and creamy notes on the finish as well.
Young’s Brewing Company--Dick’s Brewing Company Dick’s Bottleworks IPA--India Pale Ale 2007 22 oz. Yes 8.50% 85? 4.25 / 5.0 IPA--Imperial Big sediment.Lacy mild light head.Cloudy bright dark amber orange color.Malty floral fruit ester hop front.Creamy mild sweet sediment thick rich apple bisquit yeast body.Mellow Belgian hop spice end. 7/12/2007 0
BOMBER. Pours a copper body with an off white head. Pine, sweet grapefruit notes, chewy warming body, with some pine, and caramel notes. A light soapy character, not sure how old this was. A moderate warning with more sugar and caramel notes. A decent ipa, that had a mild warming with some light spicy hop tones. Good.
Bomber. Pours a clear, dark, orange-copper hue. A small, foamy, beige head fades swiftly to a thin film. A soapy wash of lace mostly rejoins the body, with scant spots escaping the recession. The aroma is based in sweet toffee and bread malt, caramel, and orange marmalade. Citrus hops seem somewhat faded, but still provide ample, floral aromatics. Flavors mirror the nose, largely sweet for an IIPA, with loads of toffee and caramel outpacing the faded, sticky citrus bitterness. The palate sports a big, sugary body, with balanced carbonation and a heavy finish. It’s mostly unobjectionable, yet boring and lackluster.
Bottle. Pours a cloudy orange brown with a small ring of white head. Aroma of crackery malt, citrus hops. Flavor of sweet fruits and crackery, caramel malt. This doesn’t taste too old, but it is a touch sweet and wore on me as I continued to drink it.
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Bomber, showed up on Long Island along with some of the other Dick’s line-up. Didn’t realize this was aged, but I gather from the recent ratings it is. The bottle also refers only to a 5c bottle deposit for Oregon as opposed to listing all states with bottle laws as on the rest of current Dick’s bottles. Lots of excess information there, but it is what it is. In any case, doesn’t actually seem too old to the senses. Aroma does have a hefty caramel and bready malt feel but also still has plenty of pine, herbal, and tropical fruit hop notes. Flavor likewise has a good deal of malty sweetness, but whatever oxidation has taken place is not particularly off-putting nor does it turn the beer overly syrupy. Still plenty of bright bitterness left with a tropical feel and even lightly resinous over syrupy. Still seems like a DIPA to me, maybe a bit muted, but still a fine drinker.
Courtesy of... someone at Levi’s hop harvest party. 2 year aged bottle. Dark copper color with no head. Strong brown sugar aroma. Lots more sugar and sweet malts, caramel in the flavor. Hops have completely vanished. As an IIPA, it sucks; as a beer and American Strong Ale or Barley Wine, it’s pretty damn tasty.
Interesting stuff. Pours a dark honey amber with a smallish head that leaves great lacing. Smells more like a barleywine than an IPA - it has a huge malt contingent to offset the hops, almost going as far as some dark fruit notes. Big flavor with lots of hops, but that malt presence is still really strong - this is seriously like a barleywine without quite the burn. Totally belies its ABV. I’m digging the deep, earthy flavor that offsets the hops - the rye works a lot better than oak to complement. Not a great brew, and it came out a little undercarbonated, but definitely worth a shot.
Picked up a 12-oz bottle at Bottleworks in Seattle back in 2007 and cellared it for two years. Pours a semi-hazy copper/amber colored brew with a thin off-white head that quickly dissipates to a thin ring. Aroma of orange and lemon zest, a hint of caramel some vanilla and a touch of mild spice. Taste is medium bodied, some powdered caramel malt flavors with light grapefruit zest and a touch of caramel. Finish is a tad more malty than hops. Some alcohol burn and a powered caramel aftertaste. Aging smoothed it out compared to the rating back in 2007.
Aroma is pretty malts with a good deal of caramel and pale malts. Hops come across as earthy, piney, and somewhat cheesy. Pours a hazy shade of copper with a lasting fluffy head. More maltiness in the flavor. Malty but not overly sweet notes of caramel, pale malts, and brown sugar perhaps. Decently bitter earthy and piney finish. I still get that salty bitterness that reminds me of stinky cheese. Nice smooth creamy body with medium carbonation. I know that it wasn’t stored in the most ideal conditions at room temperature on a shelf at the store, so that must have something to do with it.
Nice ruby copper, fluuy fading head leaving alsting ring on the glass. Thick molassess malting caramel, dusty pine aroma. Upfront piney in-your-faceness move way for floral light flatterning notes which dance well with decent malt buoyancy
I bought a bottle and held onto it for a while out of fear that it wasn’t being made anymore, but since Dick’s will resume brewing I’m free to enjoy this. Clear amber, thin pale tan cottonball head. Faint earthy hop aroma. Where may IIPAs are srictly hop bombs, this one ebbs and flows as the caramel malt and aggressive hops rise and fall as they fight for attention. Chunks plopped out with audible splashes as i poured the last of the bottle in the pint glass and seemed to bring out some more of the sharp bitterness. This must have been at least 6 months old, perhaps it would not be as harmonious when fresh. I love living in the NW!
Amber, thick lasting beige head, intense bead.Fresh hop/crystal malt nose.Huge body, big hop profile, but the alcohol heat is slightly unpleasant, detracting from the overall impression
Bomber Bikesandbeer and I bought on our road trip in January drank on the 4th of July. Pours dark orange with a two finger tan head. Nose was slightly hoppy and to me smelled like dogs but then again i had just been playing with them. Taste was bright and very front ended.
Bottle...Copper body, red hues...beige foam....citrus aromas..pretty normal ....light citrus and light malt....body is creamy, but just very typical....lemon seed essences...more citrus and light malt....just average for me in this style....but very tasty...nice lacing, and a nice lasting finish
Bottle pours a hazy amber color with a thick creamy looking head. Has a wonderful floral aroma to it that smells like citrus. Has a medium mouthfeel. Taste is special. Upfront caramel sweetness with a hop bite on the back end that makes you pucker. Leaves a grapefruit like aftertaste in your mouth. I keep smelling and tasting this one. The mark of a good brew.
Bottle. Nose-muddled kind of dirty IPA, medium hops, big malt nose. Body-medium almandine with lasting eighth inch head. Taste-low to medium sweetness, medium bitter on the back end, seawater, mild salt.
Bottle, courtesy riversideAK. Pours a dark, clear amber copper copper, with a giant fluffy white head. Big rings of lacing remain on the glass following each sip. Aroma has a big bouquet of floral hops, vanilla and cinnamon. Hoppy flavors, very sweet and rich, with citrus, strawberry, some cantaloupe, and distant maple syrup. Very soft and smooth as velvet. Well-balanced.
22oz bottle, courtesy of 5000. Thanks, André! Pours a murky, dull orange-amber color; medium tan head with patchy lacing. Solid amounts of zesty citrus and grapefruit bitterness in the aroma; caramel underneath. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: lively carbonation; lots of chewy bitterness (grapefruit, citrus, some earthiness) with a dense, sweet malt core; slightly astringent and pretty chewy, but a tasty enough double IPA. Lots of lingering hop bitterness in the finish: citrus rind, sugar, and caramel sweetness.
Pours dark amber with a great cloudy head. Funky aroma, fruity, very forward hops and burnt toffee. Taste is very sweet with lingering bitterness on the tongue. Complex.
Bottle 650ml
Appearance: Murky light brown with above average thick , fine creamy head 3+
Nose : Spiced hop aroma , creamy – mineral straight nose.
Flavor/Palate : Strong all out hop profile buried underneath mineral fruity accents. Long bitter finish.
22oz bottle from bottletrek.com Not very impressed by this IPA. Nose was a little week.....some grapefruit and pine, with some malt on the backdrop. Looked good, a burnt orange amber with a frothy off white head, great lacing. Finish was a little more on the malty side. This was a drinkable beer, didn’t do much else for me.
Nov. 2007 - Thanks to eaglefan538 for sharing. Apple juice brown color with decent frothy head. Aroma and flavor of pine and grapefruit. The mouthfeel was very sharp, dry and carbonated. Decent brew.
Pour is deep hazed orangey amber with a thin white head...smell s sweet and biscuity with strong grapefruit notes...taste is highly sweet up front with a strong bitterness building fast but fading equally fast in the quick finish...
Very good PNW IPA! It has the dark roasted maltiness that accompanies any good IPA from the NW, it has the good hoppiness of a beer brewed near the source of the cones, and it has the lingering bitterness that a good IPA should have. The aroma to this one is scant, but on first taste the insane hop bitterness hits your tongue, and you almost have to pucker up. The yeast is pretty subdued in this one, but that piney resin saturates your tongue for a good IPA.
In short: A refreshing yet very tasty IIPA with grapefruit/pine-tree hopping. Very good.
How: Bottle 22oz from after4ever. Thanks a lot Tom.
The look: Cloudy dark golden body with a small white head
In long: Chewy body with nice rich caramel. Something doughy about the yeast, malts or both. Hops are half grapefruit half pine-tree. Bitterness is sharp but rather short. Carbonation is appropriately medium. The beer has a pleasant tartness that immensely increases drinkability. Nothing original but man would I ever like to drink 6 bombers in a row of that very effective and refreshing IIPA. Unfortunately for me I don’t have 6 bombers of that beer. Fortunately for my surrounding I don’t have 6 bombers of that beer.