Founders Centennial IPA

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

A hazy amber beer with an orange head. The aroma is sweet and lovely hoppy. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel, combined with a lovely hoppy character, leading to a dry end.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of GoBlue - thank you Bill. Fresh, citrusy - but also somewhat soapy - aroma. Medium body with light caramel but otherwise completely dominated by very fresh and fruity aroma hops. Medium bitterness in the finish. 011206

Bottled ay Monk’s Café Wallingatan, Stockholm. Hazy amber, brief head. Peachy soapy hop aroma,. Sweet and compact with clean mouthfeel. The peachy, sopay hops together with overt sweetness and clean, somewhat syrupy malt forms an immense bitterness that gets slight inky edges. While it contains loads of pleasnt flavoutrs it’s too sweet and unbalanced to live up to my high expectations on this brewer.

Bottle 12fl.oz. @ home.
[ Trade by VikingHammer ]. Clear medium orange color with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy hoppy, orange fresh hops. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090218]

Bottle. Cloudy amber coloured with an off white ehad. Aroma of caramel, malts, hops and grape fruits. Flavour of fruits, hops, pine needles and grape fruits.

Date: 07/18/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Trade

Appearance: opaque orange, whispy white head,
Aroma: big sweet citrus hop aroma with a touch of pine sap,
Flavor: lots of sweet carmel malt flavor balanced by great grapefruit hop character, fatigues easily and a fair amount of bitterness shows up,
Overall: starts off great but fades
-------- /> Date: 09/06/2005
Mode: bottle
Score: ii to ii+

Appearance: dark amber, fine beige head,
Aroma: big sweet grapefruit aroma,
Body: creamy body,
Flavor: nice big hoppy flavor on top of some good sweetness, turns into a creamy hop flavor grapefruit smoothy
-------- /> Date: 03/15/2008
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting

holds up very well, retains a lot of the citrus and grapefruit rind character,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+/4

Bottle at Monk’s Café, Wallingatan
65 IBU
Beautiful amber color, hazy; big head. The aroma is well hoppy, not much peristent. Medium body strength, strong toffee flavor that doesn’t have a chance to show any smooth or sweet side because immediately aggressed by an extreme hopping; the bitterness increases even more towards the final, turning into an oily and dry hop feeling. Extreme, but not enough sweet or fruity for being my favorite; no feather here, just the sword.

(12oz bottle) Medium off-white head atop hazy amber body. Aroma is moderately sweet, orange/grapefruit, some spice, light caramel. Taste is moderately sweet, grapefruit, some pine, caramel, light orange. Soft medium body, light resin, surprisingly drinkable. Alcohol noticeable but just barely.