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Green Flash Imperial IPA

Green Flash Imperial IPA - Imperial/Double IPA

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98
overall
Brewed by Green Flash Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA

Vista, California USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
6843.85/5.03.84/5.09%88.6Snifter, Tulip
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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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 NoiZe (1288), Mooi Zeist, Netherlands
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/517/20
Jun 13, 2008  
Orange colored brew. Very nice hoppy aroma, barnyard. Grapefruit in aroma and flavor. Nice hopbitterness. Hoppy and spicy. Nice.


 Jvittorio4187 (255), Boardman, Ohio, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
Jun 12, 2008  
Pours a nice gold with white head. Aroma is of sweet malt, spices, and light hops. Mouthfeel is medium. Tastes is of earthy hops, spices, and sweei malt. Finish is very earthy and full of hops.


 caesar (3020), Bunnik/Utrecht, Netherlands
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Jun 11, 2008  
Bottled, bought in Vejle. Clear orange color, short head. Hoppy aroma, pine, hint of grapefruit. In your face bitterness with a malty background. Straightforward.


 Darkover (1308), Columbus, Ohio, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/515/20
Jun 11, 2008  
Copper color with a big beige head. Aroma of resinous hops. Flavor is also of strong resinous hops. ok.


 Rogueone (506), I F&ckin’ hate those guys from, Ohio, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/103/515/20
Jun 10, 2008  
Bottle: This is dank. Smells like earthy, green dope. Pours a pale golden orange. This is basically attempting Stone Ruination but not nearly as full of flavor.


 Glouglouburp (2778), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/55/103/511/20
Jun 9, 2008  
In short: Lots of hops but too little malt and too much alcohol. A simplistic palette destroyer.
How: Bottle 220z, fresh. From kmweaver, thanks a lot Ken!!
The look: Clear golden body with a medium off-white head
In long: Hoppy nose with an equal parts of pineapples, grapefruits and citrus fruits. Taste is disappointing. The frail body is not enough for all the alcohol. 9% ends up feeling like 11%. Total lack of malts. Alcohol burns the throat and totally kills the hops flavour. It the end it was alcohol, some candy sugar followed by a short and sharp flavourless bitterness and alcohol bite. Some papery notes. I struggled to finish my 22oz. This beer is as boring and brutal as a stuttering uneducated drunk sailor.


 fiulijn (7150), Como; Lausanne (CH); Malmö (SWE), Italy
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/516/20
Jun 8, 2008    Updated: Aug 28, 2009
2009-08-24, 8-4-8-5-16=41
Hazy deep blond color. Fruity hop beer, apricot jam and oranges. Good caramel and toffee flavor, resiny and fruity hops, bitter oranges. Strong final, getting a bit astringent.

2008-04-04, bottle at Ølbaren, Copenhagen, 8-4-8-5-16=41
Hazy golden color; big head. Very nice and quite original aroma, hoppy, earthy, with manure. Toffee flavor, and similar hop impact (manure...) some sweetness too. Very good, but tonight, compared side to side to the Ballast Point Dorado, it can’t win.


 Nephilium (541), Ohio, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/518/20
Jun 7, 2008  
Huge overpowering hoppy aroma (mainly citrus notes). Pours a clear amber with a huge fluffy white head. A touch of sweetness in the beginning, but it’s overpowered by a strong astringent hop flavor. Not quite as over the top as some IIPA’s, but really drinkable.



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