Green Flash Imperial IPA

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

Bottle, shared with Cole and Macadem. Pours hazy orange, with a thick and persistent off-white head. Decent lacing. Nose is big pine, fresh cut firewood pine, with mild floral notes, mandarin oranges, firm malt. Palate isn’t as assertive, biscuit malt, resiny hops, tea, some spice, big bitter finish. Very nice!

This is a great IIPA, smells very fruity, grass, hay, hops, dandelion, very pretty nose, and even better taste. Its really earthy, wet hay, fresh wheat, a sweetish bitterness, really nice.

I got totally blindsided by the Green Flash Imperial IPA (on tap at Hamilton’s in San Diego). I’d never heard of Green Flash Brewing until that night, but it certainly has the IIPA figured out. I’m not really into the hops craze, but this is a surprisingly well-balanced variation (i.e. doesn’t taste like dishsoap) maintaining a healthy 9% ABV. Green Flash might be threatening to dethrone the Maharaja as my default IIPA.

bottle, pours light hazy orange , some piney and hoppy nose. Sweet malt and all hop bitter finish. Nice.;

This impy IPA is a very unique one. It pours a dark golden color with a big, soft and fluffy white head. The leaves a tremoundous amount of lacing around the glass. The nose features a full compliment of hops, lots of pine, tons of grapefruit and some hints of grass and hay. The body is smooth and drinkable. The unique aspect of this beer is the taste. The flavors do feature the usual hoppiness, but it’s a different type of hoppy taste. I’m guessing that Green Flash is using a different combination of hops. There seemed to be more of a dry, grapefruit, citrus and pine flavor than most impy IPAs. Like I said, the hoppiness is definitely still there, but the accompanying flavors are quite different. And in my opinion, they’re just not as good. The grapefruit and citrus sort of overwelm the actual hoppiness and cover up some of the malty backbone. The finish is much of the same, with sticky hops and grapefruit and pine that really sting your palate. It’s a good impy IPA, but falls a bit short of others.

A hazy straw colored beer with a nice fluffy off-white head. Aroma is sweet, juicy citrusy and flowery hops. Flavor is a lot of citrus hops, a bit of a caramel malt, and ending with a long, strong hop bitterness. Really well done here, good DIPA.

Poured an amber color with soapy white head. Aroma of citrus hops. Flavor was loaded with citrus hops, caramel malts, and more hops, finishing with a nice slightly dry and bitter tinge. Really well balanced Imperial IPA that truly satisfies and makes you want more.

Some nice malt sweetness but not enough. Citrus and pepper hop raise promising aromatic but just falls short on malt complexity. Not bad.