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Green Flash Imperial IPA

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98
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bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
6883.85/5.03.84/5.09%88.7Snifter, Tulip
Commercial Description:
"San Diego-style IPA, as it has come to be known by many, is a super-hoppy, high gravity, yet highly quaffable ale. Green Flash Imperial IPA is created in this new tradition, with intense hop flavors and aromas from a unique blend of Summit and Nugget hops. It’s all about the hops!" -- Brewmaster Chuck Silva
101 IBU
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 andersand (308), Malmö, Sweden
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/516/20
Nov 19, 2009  
Copper coloured with a creamy off-white head. Nice pine and caramell aroma with perfumey notes. Flavour is lots of caramell, less hoppy than expected, rather mild and round. A ok I/DIPA, their WCIPA stands out more.


 monkeychugg55 (222), Joliet, Illinois, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/517/20
Nov 17, 2009    Updated: Nov 19, 2009
Pours a slightly hazy golden copper with a medium sized white head that falls apart rather quickly, but leaves tons of lacing. The aroma is loud and powerful grapefruit, with some pine, and candy. A faint amount of malt is also detectable. The flavor starts out with sweet caramel malt, to grapefruit and citrus, to pine and hop bitterness. Long bitter finish. This is full bodied with soft but lively carbonation. Nice hop profile like nothing I’ve had before. Another great beer from Green Flash.


 ansermadide (507), Kyle, Texas, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Nov 14, 2009  
A hop delight! Green Flash is great, isn’t it? This high-IBU, high alcohol IPA has a cloudy yellow color, a hoppy "green" aroma, and a silky, syrupy hop flavor followed by a numbing hop finish. This is a well-crafted, well-flavored and well-balanced IPA.


 tarheels86 (732), Washington DC, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Nov 11, 2009  
22oz bomber shared with tastybeer; courtesy of wavers1.

Pours a clear light orange with a one-finger white head that has pretty good retention and leaves okay lacing. Aroma is grapefruit, butterscotch, booze. Taste is herbal hops, some syrupy sweetness, butterscotch candies, brazil nut, almonds. Overall, a very nutty, cloying DIPA, ie a bit stale. Would like to try this fresh in Cali.


 williamherbert (466), Syracuse, New York, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/516/20
Nov 7, 2009  
Out of a 22oz... Hazy but clear amber yellow color. Big pillowy head. Looks nice. Icy lace. Looks medium bodied and light colored for an Imperial IPA. Beautiful West Coast hops. Citrusy and not overwhelming. Sweet biscutiy malt balance. Really really nice. The mildness is unexpected. Excellent citrusy hop taste which is tart and fresh. A bit spicy, more woody as it warms. It’s imperial but not off-balance or extreme at all. Creamy and a little thick. Somewhat bubbly with a pleasant sting on the way down. It’s a terrifice, balanced Imperial IPA. It’s not too hoppy, not hop-fetishistic.


 satan165 (564), River Grove, Illinois, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/102/59/103/518/20
Oct 29, 2009  
aroma is perfect balance of lightly bready malt and shadowy grapefruit. appearance is sunny translucent yellow. flavor is bracing bitterness -- lemon/lime and more grapefruit. more bready malts in aroma come out as beer opens. this beer is perfectly balanced yet the hops remain obnoxious -- as id like them to.


 Collint (453), Sylva, North Carolina, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/517/20
Oct 28, 2009  
Bomber bottle, pours a light hazy yellow orange beer with a thin off white head. Aroma is piny grapefruit awesomneness. Flavor is sweet malty piny grapefruit. Solid well balanced delicious beer. This is very close to their ipa but wayy better. Very very nice! Thanks J tiki



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