3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Pours almost clear orange with a white head. Taste is sweet and very hoppie...citrus/orange/grapefruit with some carmamel notes. Nice and long bitter finish. Nice one.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle at the Black Sheep in Dublin. Not this bottle but this one: http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/anderson-valley-imper a dark orange with little head. Tropical fruity aroma. Well balanced malty sweetness with bitter finish. Ver nice beer.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Clear golden color with big and long-lasting head. Aroma is quite intensive with citrus and sweet fruits. Lots of citrus and herbal hops in taste. This is what I’m looking for in IIPA! Finish is very bitter, but bitterness is very pleasant. Very good one!
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled 330ml.- at Sörspecialista.hu, Budapest. Clear amber coloured, medium sized off-white head, pleasant grapefruity hoppy nose. Quite aromatic hoppy fruity taste with notes of caramel and spices. Hint of passion fruit and alcohol in the finish.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Slightly hazy golden colour, white head. Aroma of hops, candy, tropical fruits, candied fruit and lychee. Bitter flavour, hops, malts and tropical fruit. Hoppy finish, tropical fruits with a lingering bitterness.
(From 33cL bottle @ American Beer Tasting, Café De Kleine Wereld, Breda. As Anderson Valley Imperial IPA.)
5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 20/20
This could be the only beer I ever give a perfect score. This is my cup of hop tea. I hope its not gone for good. The honey nectar vanilla caramel cream toffee malt in perfect balance with the finest traditional Pacific northwest hops. Nectar of the gods.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
bottle.
pours blonde, good foam. smell is very nice but not super-intence. fruity hops ( exotic) like mango and stuff.
soft carbo,
bitterness, followed by sweetness, again those exotic fruits, bitter ending, long lasting aftertaste...
damn, maybe i should change my favourite style. imperial IPA’s are ALWAYS good, arn’t they ? damn !
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Orange with a thin head. Flavour is beautiful deep hop, fruit, flower bitter and damn good
4.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
12 oz bottle @ home from Drinks & Gifts in Krommenie. I love IPA’s, but this one has a nice touch. Not as bitter as a normal IPA. A little sweetness in the back. Somehow reminds me of Christmas trees :) risk to repeat!
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 12 fl.oz. Pours hazy amber in color with off-white head.
Leaves a nice lacing on the glass, so points for that. Pine, sweet
fudge and notes of malts in aroma. Sweet and actually quite subtle
notes of them piney hops in taste. Feels more malt-driven this one
though. Light piney and grassy hoppy afertaste nonetheless. Light
perfume notes, some sweetness with that grassy bitterness in finish.
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