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Baby Maker
Triple C Brewing Co.
- From:
- Triple C Brewing Co.
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
Ranked #2,045 - ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- 84
Ranked #22,266 - Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 12.87%
- Reviews:
- 31
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 06, 2023
- Added:
- Nov 21, 2012
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 52
Ready to take it to the next level? This double IPA is fueled by hop flavor and aroma with enough bitterness to back the big malt body. Enjoy responsibly, this one's aptly named.
80 IBU
80 IBU
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Rated by Brumaster77 from North Carolina
3.75/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a 16 Oz can purchased at a local store in Surf City. Good head and slightly hoppy, with good notes and malt. Decent DIPA and smooth!
Aug 06, 2023Reviewed by Beech105 from Missouri
4.34/5 rDev +16.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.34/5 rDev +16.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Poured from draft at Cowbell Burger and Bar in Uptown Charlotte. Great smell and taste. The head was pretty small, but it laced well. Taste pretty hoppy, but very good. One of the better Double IPAs I’ve had.
Jun 26, 2022Reviewed by MacMalt from New Jersey
3.73/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
I should state that this DIPA was about 3 months old when I drank it. Poured from 16 oz. can into a pint glass. It pours a mostly clear, honey-amber color with a large, frothy, milk-white head and lots of soapy lacing. The nose is malty and fairly sweet with strong hoppy notes. I'm smelling almost no fruit which could result from its advanced age. This is a very southern-influenced ale with a heavy malt base balanced by pronounced piney bitterness from the Cascade hops. As it warms, I'm finally detecting some stone fruit from the Glacier hops but it's subtle. I think if the can were fresher, there would be additional citrus from the Azacca and Amarillo. This ale has a fairly thick and viscous mouth feel with appropriate carbonation, and the 8.5% ABV gives it good substance. This ale was enjoyable at its advanced age but I cannot help but think it would be much better fresh.
Jul 17, 2021Reviewed by Slatetank from Pennsylvania
3.79/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
This ale has golden amber color with good clarity with thick beige cream head and lace sticks
the smell is malty lightly toasted with pine spiced hop aromas
the feel is bitter dry and lightly sweet with moderate alcohol and carbonation
The taste is mildly citrus with herbal and pine in the hops with a sturdy pale malt backbone a balance toward bitter with some sweetness inf finish and subtle alcohol flavor with light toast and lime zest
this is a very tasty IPA with good hop aroma and feel was better than expected
May 14, 2020the smell is malty lightly toasted with pine spiced hop aromas
the feel is bitter dry and lightly sweet with moderate alcohol and carbonation
The taste is mildly citrus with herbal and pine in the hops with a sturdy pale malt backbone a balance toward bitter with some sweetness inf finish and subtle alcohol flavor with light toast and lime zest
this is a very tasty IPA with good hop aroma and feel was better than expected
Reviewed by pubscout from North Carolina
4.78/5 rDev +28.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.78/5 rDev +28.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Triple C’s brewers clearly hit a homer in with this baby. Big, big malt backbone with exquisitely balanced hop bitterness... goes down very smoothly, and at 8.5%, dangerously so. While it might help to give a few of these to the gal who’s womb will nurse that baby, too many for the Baby Maker himself might bring Shakespeare’’s classic dictum about alcohol into play: “It increaseth the desire but decreaseth the performance...” E’en so, worth drinking two or three!
Oct 12, 2019Rated by Categart from Pennsylvania
4.69/5 rDev +25.7%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.69/5 rDev +25.7%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Deep copper color. Full body taste. Not over hopped. Smooth drinking!
Jun 03, 2019Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
3.92/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
I just get so excited when I CAN find another beer to add to The CANQuest (tm)! I know that it is now like shooting fish in a barrel, but when my madness beCAN, it was mostly AALs, imports & a few craft CANs. Now, I am tripping over my backlog of craft CANs!
From the CAN: "Know Your Craft"; "85 IBU".
In Crack!ing open the vent, I got some foaming action so I allowed it a few moments of calming time. No harm, no foul, no charge. The slow, gentle, C-Line Glug revealed that it liked to foam, so I allowed it to do just that. I was rewarded with just under two fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, tawny head with great retention, leaving behind nice lacing as it slowly fell. Color was Amber to Deep Amber/Light Copper (SRM = > 9, < 13) with NE-quality clarity. Nose smelled strongly of pine and almonds. Almonds!?! Cyanide?!? Mouthfeel was full & viscous, almost syrupy on my tongue. Man, the fusel alcohol was bringing the heat in this bad boy! Phew! I felt old, tired taste buds being burnt away as if with a flame thrower. 8=O Once the initial shock subsided, I tasted pine, almonds and light caramel. The Notes mention a big malt body & I would have to agree. It was more malty than hoppy, but I am not sure that such was a bad thing in this case. It did not decrease my ability or desire to drink it nor did it mar the exbeerience. Finish was hot & dry & I felt like I had really drank a beer. It was a bigger beer than I CANticipated, but it was a good one. YMMV.
Mar 17, 2019From the CAN: "Know Your Craft"; "85 IBU".
In Crack!ing open the vent, I got some foaming action so I allowed it a few moments of calming time. No harm, no foul, no charge. The slow, gentle, C-Line Glug revealed that it liked to foam, so I allowed it to do just that. I was rewarded with just under two fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, tawny head with great retention, leaving behind nice lacing as it slowly fell. Color was Amber to Deep Amber/Light Copper (SRM = > 9, < 13) with NE-quality clarity. Nose smelled strongly of pine and almonds. Almonds!?! Cyanide?!? Mouthfeel was full & viscous, almost syrupy on my tongue. Man, the fusel alcohol was bringing the heat in this bad boy! Phew! I felt old, tired taste buds being burnt away as if with a flame thrower. 8=O Once the initial shock subsided, I tasted pine, almonds and light caramel. The Notes mention a big malt body & I would have to agree. It was more malty than hoppy, but I am not sure that such was a bad thing in this case. It did not decrease my ability or desire to drink it nor did it mar the exbeerience. Finish was hot & dry & I felt like I had really drank a beer. It was a bigger beer than I CANticipated, but it was a good one. YMMV.
Baby Maker from Triple C Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
84 out of
100 with
210 ratings
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