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22 oz bomber thanks to the sweet generousity of hopsleeroy. Poured into a shaped pint bearing the name of DFH.

A: Poured a little thicker than expected. I am intrigued immediately. Nice deep golden color that is almost orange. Got a good finger of head that has some pretty good lasting power. Lacing really clings at first but slacks off as the beer disappears.

S: This is all about the hops. Big time citrus, bitter and floral aroma coming out this puppy. Also getting a touch of malt going on but the hops showcase in this arena.

T: Taste is also of some hops. You get blasted with some serious bitterness from the hops. Citrus comes through in some crazy flavors of orange peel, grapefruit and tangerine. Malt tries to balance this sucker out, but the hops are there and they are staying. There are also notes of pine on the finish.

M: This is a heavy medium brew. There is a light carbonation that still makes this go down fairly easy. Serious bitter aftertaste. Bitterness lingers and lets you understand it. The ABV is overshadowed by the lovely hops.

D: This is decently drinkable. It would be a stretch to go over 1 bomber in an evening for me. Still throughly enjoyed it because there was some hops bitterness but it wasn't stupid. It was balanced to a point. Very nice indeed.

Serving type: bottle

Reviewed on: 09-03-2008 05:42:03

Served In: Pint Glass

Green Flash’s Imperial is a bruiser of a beer. It pours from a 22oz. bottle a dark golden amber almost like a red ale and has a medium, but thick creamy head of about an inch and a half. The initial smell is hoppy and grassy, but the first taste is hops moderated by some malt backbone. The mid palate is bitter, resin, and piney w/ a bit of grapefruit. The finish is all hops and bitterness. This is a great beer and I like it a tad better than the West Coast IPA

Price: $5.99 Served In: Pint Glass

22oz Bomber

This big ol' fat IIPA comes courtesy of jraycee as an extra in a recent trade, thanks Justin! Green Flash's IIPA sports a glowing orange body with enough haze to keep me from seeing through the body. The head peaked out at two fingers but fell fairly quickly to a thin cap. Surprisingly enough that thin cap left behind some nice super glue sticky lacing. A quick swirl brings the head back but it dies down just as quick to that thin cap.

This, right here, is an IIPA that absolutely drips hoppiness. Let me start out by saying there's a sugary sweet candy-like background that's prominent but that's quickly surpassed by the heavy handed hopping. Grapefruit pith, pine sap, and resin are all present and all in big doses. The resin rules the roost but the grapefruit starts things off. There's even some of that aspirin bitterness after this sits in the glass for a few minutes and some nose tingling booze heat pops in on deep pulls.

A few sips into this IIPA and I still don't know what to make of it. I like it but it's a tough one to dissect up to this point. The maltiness adds some candy like sweetness that makes the citric hoppiness taste like candied grapefruit peel. The maltiness is hard to put my finger but reminds me of a sweet fruit juice of sorts. The hops are still huge but the maltiness catches up in the flavor. Pine and resin take center stage but the pine actually steps ahead on the tongue. This is a good IIPA but I'm still having trouble putting my finger on things.

The mouthfeel of this IIPA is how all IIPAs should be. The body is fairly dense but shows a great velvety roll along the tongue. There's no sign of stickiness at all and that's something I can stand behind. The bitterness grows quickly after the first few sips but doesn't rise but a couple notches above moderate.

The lack of stick in the mouthfeel and overall enjoyable flavors make this an easy one to put away, so easy in fact I could see it becoming a problem in the alcohol department.

I'm not really sure why I've never searched out this beer before but I'm glad I got the chance to try it. It's a damn fine IIPA that I'd like to see on the shelves around these parts. Thanks for the bottle and another great trade Justin!

Reviewed: 3/21/09

Served In: Pint Glass

Pours a somewhat hazy, slightly coppery golden color. Nice one finger off-white head that rapidly dissipates, leaving an eight of an inch of foam atop the beer. Good lacing.

Aroma is different. Floral and citrus hops, a sweet, berry-like maltyness to it. Slightly biscuity. Light aromatic experience here, I like my doubles to slap me across the face.
Different...

Taste, IMO, is subdued also. Pleasant piney/grapefruit hop quality to it. Not much of a malt backbone to hold this together. Weird, almost funky finish...

Moderate in body, slightly dry in mouthfeel. A bit off here also for the style. Non-abrasive, again, just off...

I really don't care for this. It's drinkable, but just not enjoyable enough to warrant a second try. Their West Coast IPA is MUCH better.
Skip this one.

Served In: Pint Glass

Nice light peachy gold color with a smeared glow of haze to its cast. A finger high, bubbly, densely set foam dances to the top briefly before bowing out to leave lots of splotchy/patchy lacing.

Like the aroma as it has a unique smokey resinous quality thats quite unique to its hoppy nose tone. A murky, almost soapy-like, dense fog of hop smoke is created within a low citrusy meld of old pear and mango inbetween moldy bread. Weird, but I like it.

Unfortunately the flavors aren't quite as fun, or I should more or less say its not as significantly unique. It mirrors the aromas tone but just not in a fevered pitch high enough for it to go boom like some hop bomb Dbl. IPA's. Not that it necessarily has to do that, but its slightly missing something that makes me go 'wow' or 'super yum'. It's quite mild and malty, with an unholy soft, succulant smoothness across the entire mouth. A fairly big and creamy, malty, old, yet doughy breadyness is smeared across the palate with a gooey residue as partial little bits of hoppy touches tingle the rest of the tongue with nibbles of pithy grapefruitish citric bitterness and resinous tropical oils. Just a nitch of the smokeyness lingers with a tone of citrus as it rests very late on mind and back of the palate.

Condensingly smooth, tender, creamy, big, and bold with a simple and adequately mild tone of carbonation that allows just enough hops to fling about and lightly pin prick every other corpuscle of the tongue as it drys with bitterness in places ever so faintly with a oily, resinous citric quality.

It's a drinkable enough Dbl. IPA as the body is quite nice and creamy thick with maltyness and has just enough zip of hops to kick it in gear. Not at all like some huge beastly hopped up bittered brutes that are out there. However, it did remind me alot of Rush Rivers' Double Bubble...with its smokey content; which I also liked.

Served In: Pint Glass

Copper in color, nice head, this beer almosts looks like your average Macro lager. Smell is piney with a small amount of grapefruit citrus. Taste is weak in this one. I am disappointed in the taste. Not a good DIPA by any means. Mouthfeel is average. I think if it tasted better I would be able to drink a ton of these since the taste is so weak. Overall, not impressed.

Served In: Pint Glass

Pours a crystal clear amber with a nice thick white foam head. really good looking brew. Smell is all hops, and citrusy. The flavor has a real nice hop presence. Pretty much the same citrus as the nose. Really smooth drinker.Overall a solid brew.

Price: $4.50 Served In: Pint Glass

Review from 01/06/07

A - Clean, clean copper colored body with a ton of tight bubbles spriralling to the top. Big, light tan head looks thick and fluffy and has great staying power.

S - West Coast IPA nose. Big pine sap nose. Grapefruity citrus works in with the pine for a great hop nose.

T - Not quite as agressive as the smell, but still full of hops. Big attack of piney hop resin hits right away. Not much balance on this one, which is ok with this hophead, but eliminates it from top notch status. Citrus hops work into the flavor. Herbal hop bitterness on the finish. Aftertaste of piney hops lasts a while.

M - Medium bodied. Carbonation is nice.

D - This is a good, but not great DIPA. Strictly for hopheads.

Thanks to Westsidethreat for the bottle.

Served In: Pint Glass