 SamGamgee (1460), Santa Cruz (La Selva), California, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
May 21, 2008 22oz bottle. Clear honey color with a medium creamy white head. The aroma is fruity, with grapefruit, mango, peach, some spice, and sweet honey. The flavor has a simple, but ample malt body with lots of hop flavor that is heavy again on the more tropical and sweeter grapefruit side. The IBUs are there, but really smooth. Nice and rounded profile overall, though both the flavor and aroma fall slightly short for me.
rustychiles (1057), Mesa, Arizona, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 17/20 |
May 15, 2008 Pours a hazy golden orange color with a nice soapy head. Aroma of hops, citrus, pine and malt. Flavor is hops, pine, a little malt, and it all comes together well until the finish. There’s something herbal and unexpected in the finish with this one that makes it unique from a lot of other similar iipas.
HopheadJosh (2), Oakland, California, USA
does not count  | 4.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 18/20 |
May 15, 2008 The Green Flash Brewer never has been known to go easy on the hops, so you can expect this DIPA to really pack a hoppy punch. It pours with less of a head than I’d like but boasts a creamy texture just short of divine. The hops are less complex than some other DIPA craft beers, but the intensity of Summit hops is like a brick to the face. A wonderfully aromatic and delicious brick to the face, that is.
Styles (1653), Lincoln Park, Michigan, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
May 14, 2008 Courtesy of a few different ratebeerians. Dark golden, minimal head. Aroma has a nice floral and pine character up front, but rather weak after that. Flavor much the same, nice balance of floral, citrus, pine, not awhole lot of malt character at all. Re-rate coming soon as I have another bottle.
blipp (1685), Newark, New Jersey, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
May 14, 2008 Bottle. Pours orange with an off white head. Hoppy aroma with pine needles, citrus rind and caramel. Medium smooth body. Flavor is again hoppy with notes of pine needles and a very noticeable taste of marijuana. Short finish. The West Coast IPA is better.
chicagodri (1060), Chicago, Illinois, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 9/10 | 3/5 | 18/20 |
May 13, 2008 Pours a copper color with a thin off white head. Nice grapefruit and pine aromas with a little bit of a sweet aroma as well. Great flavor, great hop bitterness, and some sweet malt in order to try to balance the hop flavor. Fantastic beer, I was impressed. Hides the 9% ABV very well.
malrubius (1002), Valley Stream, New York, USA
| 4.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 18/20 |
May 12, 2008 Split 22 ounce in goblet. Hazy straw color with lasting head and lace. Citrus grapefruit hop aroma. Mild green grape grapefruity sweetness. Medium body and medium carbo. Excellent mouthfeel. Well-disguised alcohol. "Super-hoppy, high gravity, yet highly quaffable" is really true. A new fave.
Oakes (8101), gone rambling, Cambodia
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
May 11, 2008 Bronze colour. Nice sparkle. Spicy, woodsy nose with lots of star anise. Wow - gorgeous and unique sage, rosemary, toast, anise...a whacked out, beautiful hop character. I like it.
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