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"We can never see past the choices we don't understand." - The Oracle: Matrix Reloaded

I choose this beer to drink because I understand Bell's makes some good beer...

So with that: The Oracle pours a darker honey pale gold hue in a medium fogged body capped delicately with a small cap of ivory creamy foam. Plenty of lacing is sheeted about with a speckled spottyness.

Peachy tropics stand ripe and raw in the nose with a slender pineapple/melony core and caramel tow mushed into a soft pastry doughyness. Timidly schnappy warmth in bigger wiffs.

A smooth darkly sweetened, lightly candied, tropical ride on the taste buds with a nice mushy melange of peaches, oranges, green grapes, pineapple, apricot all blended together in a jam with a light toasted pastry doughyness. Malt is there only in check of the hops, which there is plenty of. Spread across its lentgh is a well placed touch to its beefy 10% that is nearly an afterthought until you get just past midway where it grows quickly with heat like a fruity Kamakazi shot. Leftover, after the heat resides, is a small burp of warm peach cobbler and dryish bittering hop fuzz.

Nicely bold, beefy, and quite forward nearly full body of rounded smoothness of malty creamyness with a nice buzzing fuzzyness of tropical hoppy bitterness that encompasses a whole bunch of peach and apricot skins. Warmth settles in very well and with a slow bruteness that takes control immediately. Making you slow down and really take this one in. As apposed to the HopSlam, which is much more slammable. Both Bell's brews are a dangerous tandum of hops to behold. I favor the HopSlam. But Oracle is no side show of a DIPA.
One that's a bit more of a sipper.

Served In: Pint Glass

Thanks to Joey for sharing this one at La Bella this past Tuesday night.

Pours a light amber hue with an inch of foam that leaves some lacing on the sides.

Instantly I'm greeted with tropical citrus fruits, mango, soft orange, peach, and hints of caramel malts in the background. A bit of a sweet orange candy-like aroma is noticeable from time to time. Nice hop profile.

On first sip I get a citrus hoppiness flavor upfront with caramel notes following close-by. The flavor continues with some bitter toast mid-palate and a mellowing bitterness in the end. Tastes a tad grassy and earthy in the finish. The carbonation is on the high side with this one but it's very creamy and with a nice dryness in the finish. Very easy to drink and quite enjoyable, could hardly tell this was such a high abv. beer.

Served In: Pint Glass

12oz bottle from Tangfoot. Thanks! Batch 9306.

Pours an inviting golden amber with a 1/4" dense head that fades
down to a ring of tiny bubbles and wispy trails of lace.

The nose is all floral hops. Grapefruit, pine, honey...mouthwatering!

The taste is an explosion of hop aromatics, big fruity esters with an underlying caramel/honey sweetness. The finish is big drying bitterness which prevents the sweetness from getting cloying. Mouthfeel is great, thick and sticky to start, then trailing off to a much cleaner finish.

Served In: Tulip

thanks to beags for this. batch #9306

A- Slightly murky orange/light rust color. This white head yields nice lacing.

S- Very nice aroma emanating from the pour. Smeels like Squirt tastes :mellow:

T- Awesome bite here, and throughout the finish. All though it's strong at the end, it doesn't overwhelm to a point of cloying. Light caramel, but prolly needs a little more for balance?

M- Solid

O- Overall, a SOLID DIPA...more of the west coast variety IMO

Served In: Pint Glass

Thanks to OHLRanger for this bottle.

Beautiful deep amber with a touch of red. Tight, slight ring of bubbles that dissipates quickly. Decent light lacing left behind.

Holy cow what a wonderful aroma. Tons of hops of the grapefruit variety, with a little bit of pine thrown in for good measure.

Lots and lots of resiny hops in the taste, but it is not sticky, nor unbalanced. This beer has plenty of backbone to stand up to the overwhelming bittnerness, keeping it from being a mess (like 120 Minute), and actually making this go down really easily.

The aftertaste begins sweetly, and finishes with a dry bitterness. A perfect ratio of carbonation to stickiness.
A complete winner from Bell's. They learned some lessons from last year's Big Head debacle and turned it int a world-class double IPA.

Price: $3.00 Served In: Wine Glass