Anderson Valley 20th Anniversary Imperial IPA

Brewed by Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Boonville, California USA

From a 22ounce bottle purchased at New Seasons Market (7 corners) in Portland, OR--Poured a sticky copper color with hints of amber and a small wispy white head. Nose of piny, piquant hops and some caramel malts. Over ridden by everything is the cloying hopfeel and the piny stickiness. I didn’t like the cloying factor, but it was ok.

22 oz bottle. Pours copper color with quickly dissipating head. Aroma is more mart than hops. Taste is fairly sweet and mouthfeel is quite light.. Citrrus and some pine hop taste but doesn’t linger very long. I’d like a little more hoppiness. This is disappointing to me.

nice looking semi murky orange body with a white head that leaves some lacing.aroma is slight perfume type hops.the flavor is about the same.pretty light for a double ipa.

In short: A good good typical IIPA with a slight malt backbone deficiency.
How: Bottle 22oz, thanks to hapjydeuce, big thanks to you Justin!
The look: Clear golden copper body with a small off-white head
In long: Nose of dried fruits (pineapples, citrus, grapefruits). The beer is malted enough for an excellent IPA but not quite enough for an Imperial IPA. The caramelized malts backbone is not quite thick enough and somehow the beer feels a bit sugary (white sugar). the alcohol is slightly apparent. Lots of fruity flavours but no fresh/juicy fruits sensation, this one is all about sweet dried fruits flavours. Sharp bitterness but somehow not enough. The beer is tasty, very hoppy and rathe aggressive yet it felt unbalanced on both side. All in all this is a very pleasant tasty beer despite its shortcomings. A good 20 year old anniversary beer, another 1 year and it will legally be allowed to drink itself.

22 oz. bottle. Pours a slightly hazy light amber color with a large creamy off white head that leaves significant lacing. The aroma is big on the citrus and piney hops with a decent caramel malt notes as well. This one has a strong caramel malt component along with quite a bit of bitterness in the finish. The citrus in the aroma is not as noticable in the flavor. A little on the sticky side. Along side the best this would not hold up, but it is a very good beer in its own right.

I thought there was a hop shortage. Excellent hop bomb. Not to bitter with huge amounts of hops. Smell is awesome, but has odd bitter aftertaste.

So I didn’t really get this one...and definitely wouldn’t put it in the IIPA category. Subtle aroma that is mostly sweet malt and Bermuda grass. Bitterness and ponderosa pine are the most distinguishable flavors but it’s definitely missing the "juicy". Decent carbonation and sticks to the palate.

Bottles from i forget who, bm me. Light to medium amber, nice fluffy off white head. Decent citrus/tropical combo up front, huge malt backbone. Flavor is caramel dominated through and through. Some lingering bitterness, other than that not much for hop character. Borderline cloying at times.