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Green Flash 2008 Surfs Up Symposium IPA 3.8 45

Green Flash 2008 Surfs Up Symposium IPA

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453.95/5.03.8/5.0Special7%97.6Shaker, Tulip
Commercial Description:
The 2008 Surf’s Up Symposium IPA was brewed San Diego Style: highly quaffable,pale in color with a lighter body and profound emphasis on hop extravaganza. 7% ABV, 75 IBU and 1.065O.G. Brewed and bottled by Green Flash Brewing, San Diego, California.
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 PilsnerPeter (2667), Flushing, New York, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/515/20
Jun 22, 2008  
Bottle: Orange pour with good clarity and a thin off-white head. Extremely piny aroma. Basically smells like their IPA. Orange citrus and fresh piny hops. Pretty light mouthfeel. Piny flavor- oily resins with a blood orange character. Hardly any malt detectable, with a long bitter finish. Just another "hop juice" IPA, with no subtleties. Quenches a hop craving.


 puzzl (2661), New York, New York, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Jun 26, 2008  
Bottle shared by EDA at Joe’s. Lots of Christmasy hops in the aroma, light caramel malt. Powerful, out of balance bitter winter hops in the flavor. Very bitter and intense overall. This is one of those IPAs that to me sits precariously between IPA and IIPA... a bad place to be if you ask me. The hops are too much for a normal IPA, but would be fine for a IIPA but would need more malt to back them up.


 badlizard (2409), Berkeley, California, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Apr 27, 2008  
ON tap at Hamilton’s. Golden copper with a creamy white head. Huge grapefruit nose. Good grapefruit and pine taste with a decent bitternesss. A classic west coast IPA.


 Vac (2394), San Diego, California, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Apr 21, 2008  
Shared by Bill Batten of Alesmith. Pours with a clear, amber-orange body topped by a thin to medium thick ehad with some lacing. It’s bitter, piney and hoppy with a very slight malt note. The finish is full of bitter hop notes. Medium bodied and warming with a touch of dryness.


 blutt59 (2186), Dallas, Texas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/513/20
Oct 2, 2009  
bottle, thanks to ericandersnavy for this one, cloudy yellow with no foam, nice IPA aromas flavor has gotten a little metallic with some faint hoppiness and weak malty grapefruit and tangerine


 Angeloregon (2038), Portland, Oregon, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/104/518/20
May 2, 2008  
On tap @ Downtown Johnny Brown’s in San Diego, CA--Bright amber-copper body. Silky, fluffy, rocky white head. Fruity, tropical nose. Creamy, soft mouthfeel. Subtle fragrant hop complexities. Obviously quite hopped and malty, but well constructed. This beer is the shit!


 Snojerk321 (2037), San Diego, California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
May 4, 2008  
bottle @ the Lost Abbey 2nd Anniversary party, thanks Damien! Poured a slightly hazed pale yellow, awesome lacing. Lots of pine and fresh citrus on the nose. A very balanced finish with light bitterness.


 travita (1970), Frisco, Texas, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/515/20
Oct 26, 2009  
Bottle thanks to blutt59. The look is cloudy, golden in color with an off white head. The smell is wheat, hops, citrus, pine, and good. The taste is pine, hops, bitterness, and caramel.



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