Elevation Triple IPA - Renegade Brewing Company

carteravebrew

Colorado

3.75/5  rDev -5.8%

02-05-2013 02:19:13 | More by carteravebrew

Beaver13

Colorado

3.53/5  rDev -11.3%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

12 oz can. Pours hazy copper orange with a big meringue white head that retains well and laces the glass.

The aroma is dank piney summit hops with some onion.

The flavor is a little sweet crystal malt with a big piney bitter finish. I do get some onion from the summit. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with low carbonation and is slightly watery.

Overall, I've had this a few times and the summit hops can be a bit hit or miss. They can be a bit onioney at times. If not, this is really nice. Reminds me of Gubna - maybe a little more reserved other than alcohol.

Serving type: can

05-22-2013 04:51:02 | More by Beaver13

dsuedbeck

Minnesota

4/5  rDev +0.5%

05-07-2013 02:08:54 | More by dsuedbeck

richkrull

Wisconsin

4/5  rDev +0.5%

05-06-2013 12:44:45 | More by richkrull

TheBrewo

Michigan

3.31/5  rDev -16.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25

Big, big thanks to StonedTrippin for this guy in our trade box. We crack the tab and pour a brew of muted sunset orange. It holds a one and a half finger tall head of creamy white bubbles. This shows decent retention, leaving wormy spots of lacing dripping down the glass. A thick haze distorts clarity, with a few tiny chunks of sediment found here and there. Carbonation appears to be active. The nose is explosively interesting, with pure vanilla extract, cocoa butter, and fusel booze. Grain takes the shape of pale and syrupy caramel malts, sweet bubblegum esters, and light toast. Sweetness comes from red apple fruitiness while depth comes from phenolic clove, moss, and vinegar acidity. The hops are spicy, earthen, mineral-laden, and mildly citric. With warmth comes the smell of hotdog water, but it is surprisingly inoffensive through the mix. Our first impression is that the flavoring is not as nice as the aroma, with much of the sip becoming obscured by this beer’s bigness. The taste opens with seaweed freshness, soy sauce saltiness, dirty earthy hops, overripe strawberries, cheaper pale and metallic malts, and white sugar sweetness. The middle peaks with light bubblegum juiciness and fruitiness, notes of vanilla frosting, black pepper, and the beginning of the finishing boozy onslaught. The ending wash is straight vodka fumes, with faint cries of buttercream biscuits, herbal and grassy hops, chlorine, and raw caramel maltiness all barely surviving the fire. The aftertaste breathes of ethanol, mineral, bittered yeast, raw citric rind, pine stems pulled from mud, grass, and faint vanilla. The body is rather full, and the carbonation is medium. The mouth is coated with thickness, with big final pucker and astringent dryness of booze across the hard palate. Each sip gives okay slurp and sip, with lesser cream or froth. The abv is big, and the beer drinks slowly.

Overall, what we enjoyed most about this beer was its aroma. This showed nice complexity, with interesting sweetness of vanilla, and nice earthy bite to contrast. The hops were on the soft side, but again, nicely contributory to the final picture. The flavoring to follow was a letdown. Things were so boozy, and subsequently puckering, by the end of the sip it became hard to appreciate this brew’s nuances and subtleties. Everything else was just okay, leaving you feeling like you’ve missed out on something important.

Serving type: can

05-01-2013 01:00:22 | More by TheBrewo

Jordantb313

Colorado

4/5  rDev +0.5%

04-28-2013 14:14:09 | More by Jordantb313

azdback

Arizona

4.25/5  rDev +6.8%

03-31-2013 05:25:18 | More by azdback

tswater

Colorado

4/5  rDev +0.5%

03-24-2013 14:08:11 | More by tswater

nzerbe

New York

3.75/5  rDev -5.8%

03-24-2013 05:11:02 | More by nzerbe

katan

Colorado

4.13/5  rDev +3.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

12oz can into a pint

A - Pours a hazy golden brown color. Strong pearly white head formation, sticks around for a long time.

S - Strong hop nose, mostly citrus with a backdrop of pine. Really smooth, well integrated.

T - Starts off with a little citrus hoppiness, almost sweet, but then a huge bitterness flies in and blows up the taste buds. More resin, pine in the middle. Finishes with a bitter edgy bite.

M - Full bodied, creamy carbonation. Really sugary and oily texture, sticky. A big beer all around. The ABV is well hidden in the mouthfeel.

O/D - A bit filling, certainly trying to define the 3IPA style. ABV is tough to deal with. A good beer all around, and the price point is awesome to boot. Although I don't think it will be that way for long. Highly recommended.

Serving type: can

03-22-2013 23:12:17 | More by katan

PEIhop

Massachusetts

3.75/5  rDev -5.8%

03-10-2013 02:25:52 | More by PEIhop

chugalug06

Colorado

3.9/5  rDev -2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4

Massive fluffy white head on top of a orange crisp looking body.

Pine, nutty, mango, peppery, and bready.

Thick, lots of pine, medium burn hidden well by an abnormality of hops, up front fast moving sweetness with a nice strong lingering bitterness that's near overwhelming, chewy, complex, mid-low carbonation with nice attentiveness,

This is by maiden voyage with Renegade Brewing, it was a nice voyage at that... Worth every penny @ 4/12oz. Highly recommended. Great with spicy food.

Serving type: can

03-08-2013 01:10:26 | More by chugalug06

Natec1000

Colorado

4.5/5  rDev +13.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5

Renegade is pretty new to the Denver Beer scene. Great taproom and nice people! Decent beers, but nothing groundbreaking. I've watched this company grow as it started off on a totally different marketing platform under "Journey Brewing" then right before they opened it seems like someone shook them up and told them they needed to steal a few pages from Stone Brewing co circa 1998 and act like rebels/badasses and it really comes off unoriginal and out of place. Their marketing is cringe worthy while making fun of "yellow fizz drinkers" and "do the do's or dont do the do's", and on this lovely can it reads "offensively delicious" and "here's to the renegades".. it'll give you douchechills so badly you'll want to brownbag every beer you get from them. All of that aside, I love this beer! When I have a craving for big hops (and wanting to support a local brewery) I'll look past all of that and slap down my hard earned dough on this well balanced hop bomb. Hits hard on all fronts and is by far the best thing to come out of that brewery to date.

Serving type: can

03-06-2013 21:41:30 | More by Natec1000

Mebuzzard

Colorado

3.39/5  rDev -14.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25

This one packs a punch at 11.20 abv. But you wouldn't know it until later. Booze is well hidden.

Pours a glowing light gold, with a huge white, rocky head. Grace lacing.

Aroma is tight and bit dirty. Yes, hops galore in this guy yet is one dimensional. Great smell for what it is.

Summit only hops? I can see that. The dirty aroma I got transfers to the taste as a bit catty. Maybe it's green onion roots? Not sure, but something seems a touch off. While PtY and Fix Your Heel, and other big IPAs, have a citrus/tropical aroma and flavor profile, this one does not. As such it seems less refreshing and the bite on the end falls short of stripping my buds.
A well done dIPA nevertheless.

UPDATE: Had another tonight, and didn't like it as well. There's a butteriness in this one (can, same batch). I doubt the hops went south THAT quick, but this more tastes like an English version. Can't finish it.

Serving type: can

03-05-2013 07:44:29 | More by Mebuzzard

SkeeterBoganski

Colorado

4.25/5  rDev +6.8%

03-04-2013 17:27:57 | More by SkeeterBoganski

Huhzubendah

District of Columbia

4.06/5  rDev +2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

The beer is a hazy, orange-ish golden yellow hue (vague enough?) with a white, sticky head that leaves ringlets of lacing plastered about the walls of the pint glass.

The aroma offers mangos, pineapples, sweet citrus. Smells sweet and hoppy.

No surprise here. Sticky, sweet, and loaded with pineapple, mango, and melon flavors. Alcohol presence is certainly noticeable. This is pretty tasty, but probably best suited for slow sipping.

Full bodied and creamy with warming alcohol.

A solid beer. While not among my favorite DIPAs, I did find this one enjoyable and a nice departure from the norm.

Serving type: can

02-21-2013 03:42:24 | More by Huhzubendah

RudnicsMEB

Colorado

4/5  rDev +0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4

E3 has an oustanding golden-orange color. It almost seems illuminated. It is not clear, yet is not too cloudy. A nice orange haze. Poured into a tulip glass from one of the 4-pack cans, it delivers a very nice, creamy IPA head that hangs around for a while. The brew seems perfectly carbonated. It is inviting.

E3 gives off a very citrusy nose with other tropical fruit aromas. It smells fairly sweet and not as hoppy as expected. The hop aroma is very citrusy and floral.

After smelling this brew, the expectations of taste change. This beer has a great bite immediately yet settles nicely and quickly. It is definitely a ctirusy, hoppy IPA. Yet, it is very balanced and suprisingly smooth for being 11% ABV.

The moutfeel from the E3 is balanced and alive. It is incredibly smooth for the amount of hops used and alcohol content achieved. I will definitely enjoy the E3 again.

Serving type: can

02-21-2013 02:22:07 | More by RudnicsMEB

hoppytobehere

Colorado

4.28/5  rDev +7.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

12 oz. can. Not dated, but it's brewed 5 blocks from my place.

A: Hazy, straw body when held up in the light. Gorgeous white head with plenty of retention and lacing.

S: Armpit full of hops, earthy, oranges, alcohol. The aroma is fantastic.

T: Awesome Summit hop flavors without being too bitter. Nice malt backbone at the end. The alcohol is noticeable, but is no way harsh.

M: Creamy, a little sticky. For such a high ABV, this one is really nice.

O: One of the best local beers I've had. I will be buying a lot more of this.

Serving type: can

02-14-2013 04:14:47 | More by hoppytobehere

dhbiker0889

Colorado

4/5  rDev +0.5%

02-12-2013 00:25:47 | More by dhbiker0889

StubFaceJoe

Colorado

4.25/5  rDev +6.8%

02-01-2013 03:44:51 | More by StubFaceJoe

rfbenavi80

Missouri

4.25/5  rDev +6.8%

12-23-2012 16:35:58 | More by rfbenavi80

ucsbmullet

Colorado

3.75/5  rDev -5.8%

12-09-2012 16:38:34 | More by ucsbmullet

jenray

Texas

3/5  rDev -24.6%

11-12-2012 19:29:21 | More by jenray

merc7186

New York

3.9/5  rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

10oz snifter at the brewery.

A: Hazy Golden Straw Hue, Passes Some Light, White Head, Some Lacing

S: Floral, Grainy

T: Floral, Grainy, Mild Oranges

M: Decent Carbonation, Medium Bodied, Mildly Bitter, Mildly Drying

Overall, a nice IPA but doesn't get overly hopped with it being triple hopped.

Serving type: on-tap

10-13-2012 00:20:37 | More by merc7186

dlello2

Illinois

4.5/5  rDev +13.1%

10-12-2012 02:03:45 | More by dlello2