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Goose Island Imperial IPA

Goose Island Imperial IPA - Imperial/Double IPA

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99
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Brewed by Goose Island Beer Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA

Chicago, Illinois USA

bottled
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on tap
common

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
5844.01/5.04/5.0Winter9.2%97.2Snifter, Tulip
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Traditionally, there are a lot of rules when it comes to brewing great beer. The fact that American craft brewers have broken those rules to produce some of the world’s finest beers is downright heroic. At Goose Island we live and die by hops, so breaking the rules meant pushing the hop limit to the extreme to create this monster Imperial IPA. We took three of our favorite hops, TETTNANG, SIMCOE, and CASCADE, and balanced their spiciness with tons of malt. Them we went back and dumped in MORE HOPS and more malt until this beer was exploding with flavor...strong enough to wake the dead and filled with more bitterness than a woman scorned. This Imperial IPA is absolutely gigantic, you’ll smell the hops from about a yard away. What will surprise you is how incredibly drinkable it is. Pair it up with the saltiest blue cheese you can find, and go nuts.
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 Ungstrup (14724), Frederiksberg, Denmark
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/518/20
Sep 14, 2004  
An unclear orange beer with an orange disappearing head. The aroma is flowery and hoppy with notes of oil, peach, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet and very hoppy and with a good bitter, hoppy, and dry end. A lovely IPA.


 Papsoe (14613), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/58/103/516/20
Dec 23, 2006  
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Vintage 2006 at 9.0% ABV. Clear, amber golden with a small, off-white head. Very fresh aroma of pine needles. Full, sweetish body with lots of caramel and wonderful flavours of pines and citrus - almost soapy perfumy, but never unpleasant and sticky as it manages to retain quite some freshness. The bitterness is not overwhelming and only seems to awake rather late on the palate. Yummy. 191206


 omhper (12147), Stockholm, Sweden
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/103/515/20
Jul 3, 2007    Updated: Jul 6, 2007
<i<Bottled. Cloudy golden, brief head. Generous aroma of lychee and kumquat. Sweet amd perfumy with rounded mouthfeel. Lots of sweet malt to back up all the fresh, aromatic hops. Long bitter finish. Superb kumquat-like hop flavour that I absolutely love.


 fonefan (10868), VestJylland, Denmark
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Jun 14, 2007  
Bottle. Unclear / hazy orange color with a average frothy fair lacing mostly diminishing off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, grapefruit, spuce, brown sugar, licorice. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and heavy bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. ;o))


 oh6gdx (8795), Vasa, Finland
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jul 6, 2007  
Bottlerd. Golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is bigtime hops, caramel and a lot of fruits. Flavour is fruity hops, caramel, toffee and some slight hints of alcohol, all mixed in an excellent balance.


 joergen (8429), Frederiksberg, Denmark
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/517/20
Feb 7, 2007  
Bottle. Clear orange coloured with an off white head. Aroma of dried fruits, caramel and pine needles. Flavour of dried fruits, pine needles and hops.


 kp (8400), Woodstock, Georgia, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/515/20
Sep 1, 2007  
Date: 12/29/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Trade

clear amber, whispy fine head, sweet piney peppery aroma, big body, good sweet malt with an abundance of hop flavor, lots of pine, long bitter finish, a very nice big ipa with all of the required sweet pine and the big body, expensive to brew and more expensive to buy
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Date: 02/07/2007
Mode: bottle
Vintage: 2005

sweet pine and citrus aroma, lots of oxidation yet still plenty of citrus hops on the sweet malt base, long bitter finish,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4


 Oakes (8057), gone rambling, Vietnam
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Aug 5, 2006  
Cloudy vibrant amber colour. Big fresh grassy, citrusy, slightly woody hop nose. Well-rounded flavours, lots of fruity, citrusy hops and clean pale malts. Certainly not one to blow minds, but very well-made and of universal appeal.



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