Firestone Walker Union Jack IPA

Bottle at GBBF 2009. An amber coloured pour with a slight head. Hoppy aroma. Well balanced IPA, fruity, hoppy, slightly sweet, malty with slight bitterness. Bloody decent stuff.

Bottle at the GBBF 2009. Subtle aromas of pineapple and grass. The flavours are well-balanced of citrus, pineapple and hay - a really good combination. The bitter finish just goes on and on. Really lovely.

22oz. Bottle: Aroma of hops, grapefruit, slight plastic, light citrus, and some grass. Poured amber/orange in color with a large, creamy, dense, off-white head that lasted throughout. Clear. Slightly sparkling. Excellent lacing. Flavor is lightly sweet and medium bitter. Tastes of hops, light grapefruit, light tropical fruit, light pine, and hints of toasted malts and caramel. Medium body. Slick, lightly dry texture. Average carbonation. Light to medium bitter, lightly sweet, hop, grapefruit, and slight toast malt finish is lightly dry.

Bottle at GBBF 05-08-09 Pours amber with a rapidly disappearing white head, stunning clarity. Tangerine and clementines, fruity, hoppy, sweet, marvellous stuff A7 A4 F8 P4 Ov15 3.8

Bottled (at Chriso). Yellow color, small white color. Bready, light citrusy aroma. Lime acidic hoppy flavor. Nice citrusy hops. Lighter than 7.5% indicates.

Bottled. Golden colour, small beige head. Aroma is fruity and flowery hops along with some caramel and some mild notes of nectar. Flavour is quite bittery fruity and flowers along with some caramelly and mild nectar.

Thanks to Tom for sharing. Hazy amber with decent off white head and good carbonation. Strong northwest hop aroma (centennial and columbus?). Good malt base with some crystal malt too. The bitterness is perfectly balanced (for a west coast IPA). The malt, hop flavor and bitterness all are in harmony. Everything is in its right place. Very tasty and i am surprised it is not rated as high as many of the others.

22 oz bottle purchased from liquidsolutions. Pours a golden amber, decent offwhite bubbly head, decent haze, not as pretty as anticipated, doesn’t lace as good as expected. Aromas are caramel malts put on thick, with grapefruit and floral hops preaching a touch of piney resin. A touch sweet overall. Initial is reaffirming, showing good florals and pine with grapefruit flavors coming around. The sweetness is hidden a bit by the strong hops, and bitterness sticks to the palate, medium body, sweetness lingers on the backend, toffee and caramel sweetness. A bit soapy and floral, piney. This IPA throws good bitterness but flavors are a bit undeveloped, lack complexity (or at last diversity for an IPA). Still, this is a lower end of the top tier IPA. Nothing to scoff and and something to take whenever possible. Cheers.