Green Flash 5th Anniversary Double IPA

Formerly brewed at Green Flash Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Vista, California USA

Date: 11/29/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: O’Brien’s

clear dark copper, wispy off white head, sweet pine and tangerine aroma, creamy body, sweet fruity tangerine flavor, touch of pine, hint of alcohol, lasting tongue scraping bitterness,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Slightly hazy golden-copper. Tropical fruit, citrus and caramel aroma. Fun hop juice. Pear, guanabana, brown sugar, and cantaloupe. Fairly normal SoCal IPA.

on tap-pours a patchy off white head and slightly hazy amber color. Aroma is bitter hops-pine/citrus/some sweet (simcoe, cascade?). taste is dry bitter hops-pine/citrus/some sweet (simcoe, cascade?), floral, faint medium malt. Big. Sipping.

Draught Huge, mango-yellow, dense head over slightly hazy pale amber beer. Fresh C-hops, orange rind, orange cake. Taste differs seriously with a very cake, pastry-like taste, seriously diminishing the hops, in a balancing way. Some oxydation apparent. Well-bodied, viscous and nearly pappy, bit sticky. Good one, but it ought not to get oxydized so fast.

Tap @ O’Briens. Poured a golden orange color with an off-white head. Nice hop forward aroma. Citrus and grapefruit almost cover the caramel malt. More citrus and grapefruit in the flavor. The bitterness on the finish was strong but balanced. Medium body and semi-dry.

Tap @ Bistro’s 8th Annual IIPA Fest. The beer poured a slightly hazed amber color with an off-white head. Floral and pine hop notes make up most of the aroma. Some malt tries to poke through. The flavor was hop forward with some bready malt. Medium bodied with a smooth mouthfeel. Nice beer. 7/3/8/4/15

On tap at O’Brien’s. The Imperial IPA pours a deep orange gold color on tap. Small to medium sized white foamy head. Aroma is juicy hops, floral hops, caramel and sweet. A medium bodied Imperial IPA. The malts are fruity, caramel and sweet. The hops are floral, piney and citrusy. Lots of hop flavors without a whole lot of hop bitterness. Lots of grapefruit and orange flavors. Nice carbonation. Good balance. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter with a lot of lingering hop bitterness. Real good West Coast IPA.

2007 PP SAF. Dark orange color. Big grapefruit and pine aroma. Nice citrus with not alot of malt backing. A little too carbonated in my opinion. A bitter dry finish. Good beer!

On tap @ the Stone World Bistro. Pours copper with thin off white head. Full aroma chubbed up with pine hops, some grapefruit hops and mild sweet malts hanging around out the back. The taste is big and chewy with ample malt sweetness that feebly attempts to balance the bold pine, grassy and mildly grapefruit hop bitterness. This is a nice very nice West Coast hop bomb brew with high gravity that helps feed the malt backbone. Spot on IIPA.