Green Flash Palate Wrecker

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

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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If you’re looking for hops, this one is a must try; it’s awesome! Aroma is super hoppy with elements of floral, resin, pine, citrus rind, earthy, and a malt undertone. Taste is complex with blistering hop character of piney, resin, slight citrus rind, and an earthy malt foundation. Finish is thick, complex, developing, with a slight bit of bitter chewiness. Really excellent but not for the faint of heart.

What a delicious IPA type. Very fresh hop flavor. This has a very light ale flavor with a fist in your face clean hop.

Pours orange-amber with generous white head. Strong citrusy-hop aroma. Flavor is bright, citrusy hops followed by a smooth malty middle and a pleasantly bitter finish. If you’re not a hop-head, don’t get within 20 yards of this. Actually you probably shouldn’t even be reading this.

Bottle from Mane Liquor. Pours amber orange with a nice thick 2cm of off-white head. Really attractive beer. Nose is huge grapefruit, unripe passionfruit, pine needles and resin. Taste contains an upfront hop bitterness, grapefruit acidity and citrusy sweetness. Pretty offensive bitterness, I can see what they’re trying to do here, but halfway through I was pretty over it. However, brilliant aroma and would be perfect to share!

Pours a clear copper with white head and nice lacing. aroma of grapefruits, caramel, resinous hops. Taste has the same grapefruits, light caramel, resinous hops, dry finish. Medium body and medium carbonation. I normaly like my DIPA around 7-8% but this one hides the alcool really well and isnt too sweet like some heavier ones. Well done!

Big and does what the label says. Seems to lose some of the hop hit with age given it being consumed in NZ. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

This is an amazing DIPA. The aroma is off the charts. Lots of citrus. The flavor is very well rounded. I love the centennial hops and the balance with the malts is perfect. Great beer.

Amber pour with white head. Aroma is big citrus and piney hops, malt in the background. Taste is the same - as mentioned below a big west coast style DIPA. I quite like it. I found there was just enough balance to cut the extremely bitter hops. Still couldn’t drink a lot, but quite tasty.

Big, piney, rich, and malty. Very well balanced hops and malt. However, it doesn’t come across as too sweet, bitter, or alcoholic. An impressive achievement.

La robe est dorée foncée. Quelqu’un pourrait bien dire orangée et cela pourrait aussi être approprié. Je constate une belle tête mousseuse. Elle est solide et laisse quelques traces derrière son passage. Le nez est frappant. D’abord, par sa force houblonnée. Je capte des parfums d’oranges très amères. Je sens des fleurs printanières assez fortes et mes narines sont complètement assaillies par un bouquet résineux assez puissant. On dirait bien que ma bouteille est fraîche! Les malts sucrés se font aussi entendre. Fort heureusement, les céréales offrent un coussin bien confortable à toute cette verdure. Le goût est très amer. L’impact des houblons est considérable. Il y a des notes d’oranges et de pêches qui se cachent derrière cette forêt de jeunes conifères. Dans cette histoire royalement houblonnée, le sucré des malts est un valet un peu niais qui arrive toujours au bon moment. En bouche, le liquide montre une superbe rondeur. La texture m’apparaît très huileuse mais facilement acceptable. Peut-être que cette douce montée des bulles y est pour quelque chose. La finale, profondément résineuse et véritablement intense, fait littéralement exploser ce qui reste de rondeur maltée. Une bière étonnante qui ne fait pas son pourcentage élevé d’alcool. Facile à boire. Cette bière est dangereuse.