Founders Centennial IPA

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Bottle: Pours a deep, slightly hazy orange with a creamy dense, light tan head. Rich flowery American hop nose, with a solid cookie-malt background. Smells like fresh cookie dough and lemon-zest. A bit thin in body, especially considering the aroma. The flavor is less pronounced than the aroma as well. Has a bisquity malt presence, with a mild cookie malt back. The hop character is limited to a spicy, subtle citrus character, reminiscent of tangerines. The finish has a fresh lingering bitterness. Not as assertively hoppy as I had hoped, but still a very well made and smooth IPA.

Orange in color, cloudy. Perfect head, whitish. Citrus aroma. Well balanced hops in flavor, with floral, citrus. Good crisp bitterness at the end (but not too bitter).

Cloudy red and orange appearance with an off-white head. Aroma was weakly reminiscent of citrus and floral but lacked that punch I expect from an IPA. Flavor was equally disappointing. Not my favorite IPA.

12 oz bottle - pours a beautiful cloudy apricot hue with a two-finger orangey head. Lots of suspended particles. Really, really nice to look at. Big fresh citrusy aroma along with peach, candied fruit, and a touch of alcohol. Flavours are more of the same, but the beer isn’t overwhelmingly hoppy, but surprisingly (given the bold hoppiness of the aroma) quite well-balanced with a decent amount of sweet malt in there to match the massive hops. Not to say the hops aren’t on full display. It has a lovely fresh dry-hopped flavour, as well as apricot. The body is kind of surprisingly thin, and the finish is very short. Excellent product.

Bottle: pours a not quite clear orange color with a very thin head, aroma of oranges, you can taste the hops in this one but they aren’t overpowering, there is a nice balance here, a slight bitter aftertaste reminds you that you’re drinking an IPA. Very solid IPA.

Lots and lots of hops all over the place. Big orange and tengerine flavors, with a ton of floral character as well. Aggressively bitter in the back, balancing a big malt backbone. Sweet candy-like malt all over the mouth. I’m really enjoying this more than the previous members of the six-pack. Hard to find anything lacking here. Complexity, balance, and explosive flavors prevail. Reminds me of one of those gummy, sugar coated orange starkist candies (as did the PP Wipeout).

Bouteille 12 oz, courtoisie de Hogtownharry. De couleur ambrée et voilée. Nez de houblon citrique (pamplemousse), floral et aux notes terreuses et résineuses, malté de caramel sucré doux (notes de toffee) et moyennement fruité (agrumes et léger d’abricots) avec des notes de biscuits. Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement moyen et une texture moyennement crémeuse. Goût moyennement amer de houblon floral et moyennement citrique (pamplemousse) avec des petites notes terreuses (qui dure toute la gorgée) et un moyen goût de levures fruitées (agrumes et abricots, notes de pêches) lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un goût malté caramel doux sucré (faibles notes de toffee rôti), un léger goût de biscuits et de faibles notes de pain puis en finale il y a un regain d’amertume asséchante de houblon plus citrique et aux notes résineuses accompagné de faibles notes d’alcool doux. Post-goût long et un plutôt sec, moyennement amer de houblon floral, citrique (pamplemousse) avec des notes résineuses, terreuses et herbeuses ainsi qu’un léger goût fruité (zest d’agrumes, pelures de pêches).

Had this at Sunset and just needed ot have some more. Made sure topick some up on the way back to NY but no score, got in trade again. What a great and rich IPA. So flavorful and complex. Aroma of citrus and woods, pine and sweet malts. Taste had more citrus than pine, grapefruits and orange zest. Nice hoppy beer but balnced well. So I had this on tap and bottle, guess I just prefer the tap.