Green Flash Imperial IPA

Brewed by Green Flash Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
San Diego, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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While excellent in a bottle, it’s on tap where this ale’s effervescent character is brought out. Golden amber in color, with a burst of citrusy notes up front balanced by sweet malt and piny hops. GF Imperial, which I’ve raved about several times on my blog, is smooth, nutty, and spicy with a crisp clean finish. Definitely one of the classic West Coast IPAs. http://www.billysbeerblog.com/2010/12/bright-l

wow! perfect for a lover of strong IPA ! give this a try, smooth with a great finish. same IPA bite.

UPDATED: FEB 8, 2011 Bottle from Vinmonopolet in Valkendorfsgate, Bergen. Pours a beautiful cloudy deep orange body with a medium, short-lived white head. Aroma is absolutely to die for: heavenly cascades of fresh, fruity hops: grass, peaches, apricot, melon and hints of spruce. Amazing. The first sip really blows me away: this is truly a great DIPA! So much flavor! So much balance! Starting off at first with a distant sweet maltiness, the hops grow exponentially in your mouth, going from peaches to apricot to melon, then switching over to a grassy, lightly spruced bitterness - this is a beer that actually tastes pretty much exactly what it smells like. Carbonation is tender and soft, palate is refreshing and silky smooth at the same time. The aftertaste is mildly fruity, sweet and slightly bitter at the same time, carrying the full weight of each sip as it gently takes your palate by the hand, leading you over bright green, flowery and beautiful meadows, where you meet a fair, white-clad lady with golden hair and... *_* ...eh, sorry, got carried away a bit there. *cough* Well, nuff said: this is perhaps the best DIPA I’ve had in my life. No, not perhaps, this IS the best. There is too much of nothing here, too little of nothing. Awesome. And this rating isn’t even contextually biased; Monday evening, sitting alone in front of my PC with just the kind of expectations to expect from a solid American craft brewery. In other words; this is liquid magic. Just go and get it.

Hard to find anything to dislike about the West Coast IPA. Not a hop bomb, no, they’re too smart to make that - better to make it higher alcohol and smooth. Maybe it is a hop bomb, I can’t judge anymore, I drink too many hoppy beers, I’m even growing my own now. Any how - excellent beer - drink some.

22 oz. bottle from Grape & Gourmet. Pours golden orange with a thick white head. Aroma of grapefruit, clean pine, and citrus hops. Beautiful blend of bright hop flavor blended with just the right sweetness. San Diego does it again; a near perfect DIPA.

This beer pours a light amber with a nice head, already i can smell the hops! They smell of a dry, grassy ,earthy maybe even a tad bit herbaceous! Now this is not your bright citrus hop bomb. This is earthy, dry, and dirty and lacking a bit of a malt backbone, but if you’re a hophead this beer is a must! There is a light malt flavor, but the hop presence is dominant.

This is awesome, one of my favorites now. Aroma is super hoppy with floral and citrus tones. It is a clear amber with a white colored head, leaving a nice lacing on the glass. The taste is amazing, like biting into a hop. Light sweet taste at first then goes very bitter, no bite even with the 9.4 ABV. Medium bodied and smooth on the palate. Overall one of the best IPAs I have had, defiantly going to drink this again.

Green Green Flash Brewing Imperial ipa Smells like ruby red grapefruit super citrus smell and it lingers. Maybe being to facetious here but I just want to smell it all day long it is so good. It just smells crisp and sharp. There is a Beautiful white head several centimetres high. Now the taste first tasting. Wow this is a 9.4% abv amazing, super hoppy in the mouth immediately then left with a crisp clean almost no aftertaste, Really clean ending. Great taste amazing offering from Green Flash Brewing. Try it out you won’t be disappointed. ash brewing Imperial IIPA Smells like ruby red grapefruit super citrus smell and it lingers. Maybe being to facetious here but I just want to smell it all day long it is so good. It just smells crisp and sharp. There is a Beautiful white head several centimetres high. Now the taste first tasting. Wow this is a 9.4% abv amazing, super hoppy in the mouth immediately then left with a crisp clean almost no aftertaste, Really clean ending. Great taste amazing offering from Green Flash Brewing. Try it out you won’t be disappointed.

This is a great imperial IPA. I’ve had a number of good ones and this one has the best all-around flavor. A distinct piny aroma reminiscent of an illegal substance. A lot lighter in color than other doubles. Very smooth and worth a try.

Amazing west coast style ipa. Simply put: Citrusy and incredibly Hoppy. Hops really balance the Malt to create and overall amazing IPA.