Great Divide - Titan IPA

The point breakdown for a beer is as follows!
Appearance (0-3)
Aroma (0-4)
Taste (0-10) [Hop/Malt Balance (4); After Taste (3); Mouth Feel (3)]
Overal Impression (1-3)

Not taking too many risks with this 2nd beer up for review here. Why? Not sure to be honest it's the first thing I pulled out of the garage this evening, well... the 3rd but the 1st one I decided to review. In case you were wondering, the tasting came from a 12oz bottle (bottled OCT 25th), poured into a pint glass (as you can see above). Moving on from my night to what you people actually came here for this review!

Appearance (3) - Beautiful off golden brown heading toward amber color. Not cloudy at all.

Aroma (3) - Great aroma of hops pouring out of the glass and right into your nose. Surprisingly with this beer you can even get a good sense of the malt to hop balance even in the nose.

Taste [Hop/malt (4) After taste (2) Mouth feel (3)] - Well balanced hop to malt characteristics coming through in this beer, despite the indication of a lot of hops that should be coming through with the nose. The after taste basically gets a knock because I really wish it lasted longer, but it is a very clean finish. The mouth feel is great not over powering and not too light. While the hops may scare away some new to IPA drinkers it is a good IPA to begin your adventure into the west coast style of IPAs.

Overall Impression (2.75) - Great Divide is a heavy / strong beer maker so heavy that their variety 12 pack actually has no beer in it under


While I would like to give this beer a 3; let's be honest this is review 2. I would start to feel like Homer Simpson in the episode where he was the restaurant reviewer. Name of the episode is "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" to quote that episode... "9 thumbs up, what was that?" from here on out, I will try to be a little more particular and harsh on the beers. But it's going to be a long a hard road because I love beer so much and find so few that I just don't enjoy. Anyway Cheers and until next time good drinkin'.