Green Flash Imperial IPA

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

Hm. I keep getting notes of brown paper bag, actual ink, and candy milk malts, like malt balls. The aroma is a gorgeous mix of floral Alpha King hops and that familiar West Coast IPA, and couldn’t possibly be any better. But still, the milky ink candy taste... I’m rating this one ice cold, perhaps it needs to warm up another 10degrees. Rerate in 20 minutes ;) RERATE: Mmmm. Much better. I’m getting more of a mildly sweeter, much much hoppier West Coast now that it is about 45degrees. If this were sold in 6packs I’d be sold. I hate how all brewers just sell their higher ABV/imperial beers in unaffordable bombers.

On tap at Mad Mex, Robinson. Floral and fresh grassy hops aroma but it’s fairly muted. Overall a bit weak in the nose. Smooth sweet malt character and light caramel. Medium golden amber clear with thin head. Medium heavy watery body with medium to light carbonation. Starts pretty sweet with caramel and brown sugar. Hops are herbal and grassy but not overly bitter. This is a pretty sweet IPA with light alcohol warming. Light Band-Aid. Finish is sweet with light chalky bitterness.

great amount of hop flavor with all the right points to make this a great DIPA. the malts are pretty good but well enough on its own, the hops are flavorful through the entire beer, with deep piny flavor. works well

The aroma is very citrusy and piny with caramel malt and bread. The appearance is golden amber with a large head for the style. The flavor is like the aroma, simple but good. The palate is smooth. Overall it’s very good.

650 ml. Orange-copper with a lasting quarter inch of cream. Aromas of orange, pineapple, tea leaf, resin and vanilla. Medium body is super smooth and creamy, and of course hop-tingly and dry. Tastes of pineapple, peppery resin, grapefruit, earthy leaf, oak and orange-caramel. This beer is great cause it has the malty gumption to stand toe-to-toe with the great flavor blend of the 101 IBU hops. Paints the glass with a creamy lace.

22oz. Bottle. Hazy orange color with a thin dissipating head. Nose is full of hops, with lots of crushed pine and a hint of grapefruit. Flavor is heavily hopped with strong citrus and an impressive tongue buckling bitterness. The bite is well balanced with caramel and toasted malts. Body is medium to thin which allows the hops to stand out. Finish is lingering, dry and bitter. Akin to taking a hop sledgehammer to the dome.

Pours hazy orange-amber, moderate white head with good retention. Super spicy aroma reminiscent of Bolognese sauce and barbecue, and a spicy-leafy hop flavour that hangs on for a long, peppery, bitter finish. Mouthfeel is suitably rich and bespeaks high gravity. Subtle as an anvil but very enjoyable.

Pours a bright clear golven orange with a healthy creamy white head. (This is what an IIPA should look like!) Bright hoppy nose. Floral to grapefruit with some vague citrus. Overpowered malt, is a little more grainy than malty something lightly fruity seeming to come from the malt. Smells a little like half of the beers from FFF... The mouth is a bit slippery and creamy. Definitely some substance and some slightly higher than average carbonation. Sweet malt pops out much more in the flavor. The hops come across more bitter and slightly piney in the nose, though the predominant hop notes are grapefruit. Light fruity astringency. A little bit creamy, but it’s rained in by the hop bite and alcohol, though neither is too much. Aggressive lingering bitter finish, a little aspirin. A fine IIPA, I should have opened it when I got it a month and a half ago, but oh well!