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Great Divide: Hercules Double IPA

This imperial IPA is/was brewed by Great Divide in Denver, Colorado, USA. It's achieved an overall score of 59.64%. Based on 1 tasting, the average ABV is 9.10%.

Historical Community Tasting Notes

Preserved from the RateBeer community archive (circa 2000–2018)

Pours a orange/ruby color with a thin white head. As soon as you open the bottle you can smell the hops. Nice aroma of floral and pine hops. Very solid beer though, with just an overpowering amount of hops in it. Very good, almost a little too bitter. Great Divide really has some good stuff though.
UPDATED: OCT 23, 2008 Beautiful clear orange-red pour with a thick white head and lots of carbonation and bubbles. Piny hops with lots of flowers and hints of fruit. Very hoppy and bitter. A bit too much for me. Some cream and malt on the finish, but just too much overpowering bitterness.
heavily hopped and malted like the description says. slightly syrupy. hops are piney and floral. lingering bitter wonderfulness

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Date and Time Container Pub/Place and Where Strength ABV Colour Score Components Score Descriptive word(s) Book No.
15th Nov 2008 at 8:45 pm bottle (home), Liverpool, Merseyside, England 9.10 medium to dark golden Taste: 70.59%
Head: 88.89%
Aroma: 80%
Ease: 44.44%
Clarity: 100%
 59.644% sharp-strength 271

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Other Beers (etc.) by Great Divide

Apart from Hercules Double IPA, Hop Horizons lists 22 others by Great Divide. These are:
21st Anniversary Sour Ale
Alt Bier
Baby Hercules
Barrel Aged Old Ruffian
Belgica
Claymore Scotch Ale
Clayton Bigsby
Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
Hades
Hey Day
Hibernation Ale
Orabelle
Rumble Oak Aged India Pale Ale
Schwarzbier
Smoked Dunkelweiss
Titan IPA (6.8% version)
Titan IPA (7.1% version)
Whitewater Wheat
Wiesn Fest Bier
Wild Raspberry Ale
Wolfgang Doppelbock
Yeti Imperial Stout

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