Redeemer - Olde Hickory Brewery

GehenHerzog

North Carolina

4.75/5  rDev +14.5%

02-01-2013 00:17:27 | More by GehenHerzog

dailyminefield

North Carolina

3.5/5  rDev -15.7%

06-17-2013 22:56:04 | More by dailyminefield

kemoarps

Missouri

3.99/5  rDev -3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Pours an opaque rich amber/honey colour. Looks like delicious homemade apple cider. Small head, decent retention for it's starting size, minimal lacing.

The nose starts off with some floral hop notes, but gives way pretty quickly to bread dough. Like straight up freshly kneaded bread dough. I happen to love baking, so this is actually really enticing to me, but I don't get the big oily aroma that others seem to be noticing.

There's some bready malt in the flavour, but the hops definitely step up and take center stage here. I'm getting largely piney and pithy grapefruit. There's a calm honey/caramel to help the back end slope off instead of just dying, but the aftertaste returns the dominant grapefruit rind.
Good medium to thick body with a hugely bitter finish that I almost want to refer to as dry, but am hesitant to do so.
Hides the alcohol very well, as the hops step in and command all the attention.

Good DIPA, very enjoyable on this fathers day (I gotta remember to call my dad!); enjoyable as a treat, but not one I would drink every single day.

Serving type: bottle

06-16-2013 20:23:24 | More by kemoarps

Goblinmunkey7

Massachusetts

3.85/5  rDev -7.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4

Big thanks to Rusel_G for the bottle.

Appearance: Slight haze on burnt gold/peach. Head is sticky and bright-white. Drops to a tiny clumpy cap and collar. Nice sheets of lacing. Nice full pour with a moderate to low carbonation.

Smell: Dank with bitter oily pine. Big tropical elements as well. Mango, cooked and caramelized pineapple, tangerine. Even runs to some juicy grapefruit. Wet and juicy. Sweet malt body has a bit more heft than expected. Sweet with some caramel malt and lighter biscuity elements. Warming brings out some straight up aspirin like bitterness. Backing fruitiness adds some apple to the mix.

Taste: Big bitterness up front. Herbal and oily with a solid punch of bitter pine resin. A nice tropical component, but it's less assertive than the nose would indicate. Malt backbone is substantial, bringing some cooked and caramelized malt sweetness. Biscuity note hits and fades quickly. Juicy tangerine and orange as it warms. Lingering bitterness. A bit of mint and aspirin in the back.

Mouthfeel: Slick and oily. Body runs on the full side of medium but doesn't ever push over. Moderate to light carbonation doesn't help break it up. Wet and slick up front, with a very slightly dry finish.

Overall: Offering salvation by the pint.

If North Carolina is making IPAs and DIPAs of this caliber or better, I'll be seeking them out without question. This isn't a beast by any means, but it's got a ton of flavor and manages to be interesting enough to make me want to drink the whole bottle.

Serving type: bottle

06-13-2013 00:05:35 | More by Goblinmunkey7

kbuzz

Pennsylvania

3.75/5  rDev -9.6%

06-08-2013 00:44:05 | More by kbuzz

radio2525

Ohio

3.75/5  rDev -9.6%

06-08-2013 00:22:01 | More by radio2525

Falcone

North Carolina

3.75/5  rDev -9.6%

06-07-2013 22:56:29 | More by Falcone

bcp5296d

North Carolina

4.75/5  rDev +14.5%

06-05-2013 22:40:01 | More by bcp5296d

Hopbully

Virginia

4.25/5  rDev +2.4%

06-03-2013 03:00:57 | More by Hopbully

HopAttack3

Virginia

4.25/5  rDev +2.4%

05-29-2013 01:19:01 | More by HopAttack3

thampel09

New Jersey

4.25/5  rDev +2.4%

05-28-2013 21:48:59 | More by thampel09

Texasfan549

Texas

4.25/5  rDev +2.4%

05-27-2013 02:29:13 | More by Texasfan549

kjkinsey

Texas

4/5  rDev -3.6%

05-23-2013 00:33:36 | More by kjkinsey

FUwolfpacker

South Carolina

4.25/5  rDev +2.4%

05-22-2013 02:06:27 | More by FUwolfpacker

jakeox

Illinois

3.75/5  rDev -9.6%

05-19-2013 02:17:34 | More by jakeox

Happyhopper

New York

4.25/5  rDev +2.4%

05-16-2013 02:48:46 | More by Happyhopper

juliusseizure

New York

4.25/5  rDev +2.4%

05-15-2013 18:14:56 | More by juliusseizure

dbrauneis

New Jersey

4.21/5  rDev +1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

A: Pours a cloudy golden orange in color with light amounts of sediment in suspension, a light to moderate amount of visible carbonation, and some apricot + golden yellow highlights. The beer has a finger tall creamy dense foamy light beige head that slowly reduces to a medium sized patch of large bubbles, a very thin film covering the majority of the remainder of the surface of the beer, and a thick ring at the edges of the glass. Moderate to significant amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Moderate to strong aromas of citrus/grapefruit rind and pine hops over the top of moderate aromas of caramel malts. There are very light notes of floral hops in the background as well.

T: Upfront there are moderate flavors of sweet caramel malts but the flavors of this beer are dominated by the hops - moderate to strong flavors of citrus/grapefruit rind and pine hops and lesser notes of herbal and floral hops. Moderate amounts of bitterness that lingers for quite a while.

M: Slightly heavier than medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Light amounts of dryness in the finish.

O: This is a really nice DIPA and I'm excited that it came from an NC brewery (as I lived in NC for quite a few years and still have family there). Really nice balance from the malt sweetness to ensure that the hop bitterness is not too intense. Great flavors.

Serving type: bottle

05-13-2013 23:56:15 | More by dbrauneis

midlifec

Michigan

4.25/5  rDev +2.4%

05-12-2013 23:26:33 | More by midlifec

carrollmel7

North Carolina

4/5  rDev -3.6%

05-11-2013 05:52:34 | More by carrollmel7

Rand_ale_Thor

Wisconsin

4/5  rDev -3.6%

05-10-2013 15:14:28 | More by Rand_ale_Thor

MCDub

North Carolina

4/5  rDev -3.6%

05-10-2013 14:50:59 | More by MCDub

bum732

Maryland

4.25/5  rDev +2.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

S: Bright fruitiness, passion fruit, grapefruit sweetness, lots of pineapple with some mango, candy like sweetness.

L: Hazy burnt orange, creamy white head that dissipates slightly. Solid lacing.

T: Resiny dankness up front followed by a medium large malt sweetness. Medium high fruity sweetness, a slight grapefruit bite. There is a short, pronounced bisquity malt that fades quickly to a deep burnt pineapple. Finishes quite resiny and semi-dry.

M: Medium full body, medium carbonation, alcohol barely noticeable.

Pretty good overall, a little heavy, but great flavors.

Serving type: bottle

05-09-2013 02:26:34 | More by bum732

twowheelssoar

North Carolina

4.5/5  rDev +8.4%

04-28-2013 05:54:45 | More by twowheelssoar

buckyp

South Carolina

4.5/5  rDev +8.4%

04-27-2013 04:12:07 | More by buckyp