Seeing Double IPA is, as should be obvious from both the name and the
twin faces that adorn the 12oz bottle, a double India pale ale. A hearty
offering at 8.3% and a punishing 91 IBUs, SD comes from Winston-Salem,
North Carolina's Foothills Brewing Co., and came my way via the incomparable KC.
A
beer with a boozy, citrus sweet aroma, SD’s aroma also dances with an
evergreen harmony. The beer tastes strong—stronger even that its
8.3%—due to a heavily sweet opening note. Fortunately, it veers hard to
bitter after that, with forest flavours and citrus flavours duking it
out for dominance.
Strong and flavourful,
Seeing Double is a quality beer from an excellent brewery. Not as
impressive, maybe, as some of Foothills other offerings (see Hoppyum and
People’s Porter), but still an engaging grog with both heft and
circumspection. I’d have another (though perhaps not immediately; I’m
trying to be less of a lush). The beer suffers, as many DIPAs do, from
over-sweetness. Not persistent as some others in the class, but SD could
use a bit more balance.
Rating: 7.5 out of 10.
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