Green Flash Imperial IPA

Brewed by Green Flash Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Vista, California USA

A Mes rate: bottle thanks to our Magic.
Amazing bright orange, very hazy with a thin but stable white head. Superb piney and resinous hoppage all round with the expected sugary malt. Gorgeous bitterness, lovely and dry and just really nicely ballanced all round. Slight ethanol like boozy notes. Tasty as hell and just what I needed right now. YUM. Re-rate 23/02/10 - A Sim rate (on tap at The Publick House, Boston): I left Mes’ numbers as they worked out a bit higher than mine (7/4/7/4/15). Clean fresh grassy hop aroma. Colour is a great gold with nice head and lace. You can really taste the alcohol but to be expected in a 9%er. Bitter in the finish with a lemony tinge that never goes away. Nice and fizzy palate.

22oz bottle. Pours a hazy, golden-orange color; creamy, significant light-tan head with great retention and lacing that coats the glass; very nice pour. Loads of juicy, resiny citrus and earthy hops in the aroma; very hop-forward and fresh; lemon zest, minerals, and lime; slight candy sugar / earthy core. Lively carbonation. Chewy candy sugar maltiness and zesty, spicy hops in a medium-to-full mouthfeel: very spicy, earthy, and citrus-laden hop character; mildest astringency and plenty of bitterness; very bitter, intensely hopped, mildly rough-edged double IPA; quite enjoyable overall; minimal touches of alcoholic warmth coming through. Lengthy finish: lots of spicy / citrus hops, earthy malts in the background, and plenty of lingering, chewy bitterness.

Bottle from my secret santa. Thanks! I half expected this to be like every other green flash beer I have had recently and have a strong bitter metalic flavor. It did not, thank god. Lots of flowery and citrus hops abound the nose and palate. Very well done double ipa and much better than I remember it. Tasty.

0.66 l bottle at Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Clear golden color with small creamy head. Strong flowery and lemony hops with some grassy dry hop notes. Bittersweet flavor with honey, flowery, lemony and black curranty hops. Incredibly smooth and drinkable allthough very hoppy. Excellent!

This beer smells great... like... orange ... prunes....pinnaples... piney. Wow! It pours a very hazy unfiltered sunshine sunset hue that has a three finger head that sticks around for a good while, leaves me beautiful lattice work, just magnefisent. The flavor is of much pine and a little citrus. Just the right amount of malts in the back just a little sweet. But this ones about the hops!. (Which I love) One of my favorite DIPAs by far. Can’t go wrong with Green Flash. Thanks Brewers! THe Lord bless the hop harvest.

big carbonation, odd nose, we actually kinda got peperoni???? but that didn’t effect the flavor. Pine hops, malt is smooth and balanced very drinkable!! earthy finish.

22oz bottle. Pours a slightly hazy orange tinged gold, with a dense two finger head that fades slowly to a thick cap. The resulting lace is very sticky, leaving a solid sheet on the interior of the glass. Smell; lots of citrus with grapefruit and orange peels. There’s a mild hint of some sweet malts, but this one is definitely all about the citric hops. Taste; the grapefruit and oranges really stand out, and there’s also a touch of lemons in there as well. The malts are more noticable in the flavor than they were in the aroma, with a little caramel and biscuits, and there’s a little bit of an alcohol spiciness in the finish. Mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with a bit of a biting carbonation, and the drinkability is good.

The aroma almost kills the experience. A little more pine than I care for. The appearance is everything an IIPA should be. The palate is all PINE!!!! This is as close to shoving a christmas tree in your mouth as it comes.