Green Flash Hop Head Red

Bottle. Slightly hazy amber-red color with a dense off-white head. Great aroma, heavy pine resin, flowers, and the malt base is detectable. Nice palate, the taste isn’t as aggressively hoppy as I anticipated, but still has a nice hop character to it with some malt balance. Very nice.

Bottled at BH, Pori. Dark & deep reddish copper, small beige head. Very balanced and well hopped nose, nuttiness, caramel malts and mild pine. Very resinous hoppy flavor with little yeastiness, caramel, nuttiness similar to the aroma, but with a lot stronger piney hops. Almost full bodied, really lush chewy palate. I don’t care about the style, this just drank pretty damn good.

Pours a strong amber with thick off-white head. Aroma strong of citrus and floral hops and slight sweet malt. Flavor similar with the addition of caramel. Not exactly my style, but drinkable.

Tastes good overall but has kind of has a bitter after taste. Similar to an IPA in taste and alcohol content.

On tap at the brewery in Vista. Pours a mostly clear, amber-red body with a finger-width, creamy and frothy, light brown head that dissipates slowly and leaves some nice layered lacing. Aroma jumps out. Lots of resiny and sweet citrus with some rich, lightly toasted caramels. Flavor is quite nice. Lots of moderate to heavy earthy hops and sharper, slightly sour citrus. Semi-sweet caramels and a touch of toasted bread with a nice fruity touch. Finishes with an aggressive earthy bitterness and a long lingering taste. Medium to full bodied and easy drinking for such a harsh beer. Overall, a damn tasty "red." Straightforward, but intense and well balanced. Very nice.

Bottle. Amber brown body. Light reddish-brown frothy head that slowly diminishes. Lots of floaties. Thick aroma of toasted grain, caramel, citrus and resin. The flavor is moderately to heavily sweet and moderately bitter. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet, moderately to heavily bitter and moderately acidic. Medium to full body with a velvety texture and lively carbonation. the aroma indicated more malt than hops, but the flavor and finish made it absolutely clear this is a West Coast hoppy beer. Still, there’s a solid caramel, malt base. Nice.

Enjoyed from a 12oz bottle in a pub glass on several occasions. So, this is one of my death row beers; what I would drink right before they give me the shot. The nose is just ridiculous. The flavors are unbelievable. I’ll try to be somewhat objective in my description. The beer pours a medium copper with a slight white head. The aroma shows notes of Columbus hops (which seem to be in all of Green Flash’s best beers) and a nice balance of caramel. The palate initially shows some sweetness, but soon gives way to the aforementioned hops. I get hops first, but a really nice caramel note that seems to blend almost perfectly with the hops. The finish is what I would call medium-sweet...not cloying, but not really all that dry. Overall, just an unbelievable sample; one that you dream about and score in high quantities whenever the beer gods smile on Pittsburgh and deliver lots of it to western Pennsylvania.

Thanks to ghawener. Wow. Really nice, amber ale? Taste more like an IPA maybe extra. Green Flash is at the top of my list. They produce well balanced hoppy ales.