Founders Centennial IPA

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Bottle 12fl.oz. @ home.
[ Trade by VikingHammer ]. Clear medium orange color with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy hoppy, orange fresh hops. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090218]

A hazy amber beer with an orange head. The aroma is sweet and lovely hoppy. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel, combined with a lovely hoppy character, leading to a dry end.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of GoBlue - thank you Bill. Fresh, citrusy - but also somewhat soapy - aroma. Medium body with light caramel but otherwise completely dominated by very fresh and fruity aroma hops. Medium bitterness in the finish. 011206

12 fl oz bottle. Pours cloudy dark orange with a small, off-white and creamy head. Aroma is slight soapy, crisp peachy, grassy and vague spiced. Sweet fruity, light peachy and light caramelish sweet flavoured. Dry and bitter towards the end with a mild grassy touch. Vague soapy note. Rather dry and bitter finish.

Bottled. Amber colour, mediumsized off-white to beige creamy head that leaves quite a bunch of lace. Aroma is fruits, some floral hops as well as some bready and wooden notes. Flavour is fruity an floral hpos along with some bready and mildly yeasty notes. Quite smooth sweet maltyness as well. Wellbalanced and rather nice IPA.

UPDATED: MAR 18, 2010 Bottled ay Monk’s Café Wallingatan, Stockholm. Hazy amber, brief head. Peachy soapy hop aroma,. Sweet and compact with clean mouthfeel. The peachy, soapy hops together with overt sweetness and clean, somewhat syrupy malt forms an immense bitterness that gets slight inky edges. While it contains loads of pleasnt flavours it’s too sweet and unbalanced to live up to my high expectations on this brewer.

Bottle. Cloudy amber coloured with an off white ehad. Aroma of caramel, malts, hops and grape fruits. Flavour of fruits, hops, pine needles and grape fruits.

UPDATED: APR 14, 2010 2010-04-05, bottle, 7-5-8-5-16=41
Beautiful color, amber, hazy, with a generous head and nice fine perlage. The aroma is nice, delicate, fruity (apricots), with light toffee, cookies, vanilla. Very good biscuity toffee flavor, with clear lemon and lemongrass feeling, ending in a well hopped and fruity final, where there are bitter oranges and a shade of chamomile; the body is on the dry side; the final is well bitter. Fresh is excellent!
I wanted to give another chance to this beer, and that was a good choice!

2009-09-01, bottle at Monk’s Café, Wallingatan, 7-5-6-3-13=34
65 IBU
Beautiful amber color, hazy; big head. The aroma is well hoppy, not much peristent. Medium body strength, strong toffee flavor that doesn’t have a chance to show any smooth or sweet side because immediately aggressed by an extreme hopping; the bitterness increases even more towards the final, turning into an oily and dry hop feeling. Extreme, but not enough sweet or fruity for being my favorite; no feather here, just the sword.

UPDATED: FEB 6, 2010
Date: July 18, 2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Trade
Appearance: opaque orange, whispy white head
Aroma: big sweet citrus hop aroma with a touch of pine sap
Flavor: lots of sweet carmel malt flavor balanced by great grapefruit hop character, fatigues easily and a fair amount of bitterness shows up
Overall: starts off great but fades

Date: September 06, 2005
Mode: bottle
Score: ii to ii+
Appearance: dark amber, fine beige head
Aroma: big sweet grapefruit aroma
Body: creamy body
Flavor: nice big hoppy flavor on top of some good sweetness, turns into a creamy hop flavor grapefruit smoothy

Date: March 15, 2008
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
holds up very well, retains a lot of the citrus and grapefruit rind character,

Date: January 31, 2010
Mode: draft
Source: taco mac kennesaw
Appearance: clear gold, frothy off white head, sheets of lace
Aroma: sweet sugary grapefruit aroma
Flavor: big grapefruit flavor, crystal sweetness, lots of balancing bitterness

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+ /4

Clear amber with a medium off white head. Somewhat sweet aroma with peach, plenty of centenial hops, pine and lemons. Flavour had toasted malt, plenty of hops caramel, pine, peaches, lemons, pine and grapefruity notes. Finished dry and bitter. Nice one.