Odell Brewery, Myrcenary

My second experience of the DIPA style (after a recent double citra from Kernel) - the Myrcenary from Odell Brewing Company. I remember this one pouring more or less the same colour as a commercial lager. The nose was relatively subdued and despite a commendably disguised abv, the taste was actually quite lacking - nothing really jumped out at me. Bit of a disappointment really - 90s pretty much across the board on the beer rating sites, so I was expecting something rich, citrusy and full bodied. Hmmm. Again, as with the standard IPA, this bottle was from the start of the year and I was drinking it some months later. Maybe this had something to do with it, maybe not. Purchased from Mr Lawrence.

Odell Brewery, IPA

A difficult IPA for me, this from Odell. A salty-ish nose (similar to that coming from the Brüpond) sat alongside some perhaps more expected combinations of fruit and resin. This continued into the taste until about the midway point where it began to taste and smell very much like champagne. This then dominated for the rest of the bottle. One thing I noticed was a date on the side of the bottle - around the beginning of January mark (US dating - month before day). I'm assuming that this was the bottling date? If so it'd mean that I'd drunk this almost 4 months after it's birth. Is that too late? Had there been some degradation to the hop oils such that it produced that champagne taste? (I am of course assuming that this IPA oughtn't to have tasted like champagne.....) Anyway, it meant that I didn't really enjoy it unfortunately. Properly bitter though. Purchased from the excellent Mr Lawrence Wine Merchant.