4 Giants Imperial IPA
Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating|
Score
7.25
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Summon the Giants!
You possess in your hand the power to unite the four titans and unleash the gargantuan flavor and aggressive, high ABV of 4 Giants IPA. Boasting an assertive bitterness balanced by a malty, sweet backbone – the enormous aromatics in this Imperial IPA come courtesy of seven hop varieties. Command your destiny and write your own legend with 4 Giants Imperial IPA.
A Frankenstein recipe based from 4 of Founders' best Double IPA's - Sleeper Cell, Grease Monkey, 10K, and Double Trouble. This DIPA literally bursts with citrus and resin hop character.
You possess in your hand the power to unite the four titans and unleash the gargantuan flavor and aggressive, high ABV of 4 Giants IPA. Boasting an assertive bitterness balanced by a malty, sweet backbone – the enormous aromatics in this Imperial IPA come courtesy of seven hop varieties. Command your destiny and write your own legend with 4 Giants Imperial IPA.
A Frankenstein recipe based from 4 of Founders' best Double IPA's - Sleeper Cell, Grease Monkey, 10K, and Double Trouble. This DIPA literally bursts with citrus and resin hop character.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16oz can from Hops & Bottles. Dark, clear golden, small, tight, frothy head. Aroma offers a nice blend of caramel malts and hops. Taste is also a throwback to a simpler IPA, sweet caramelly notes followed by a nice hoppy buzz that lingers and actually grows a bit in the gullet. Surprisingly smooth for a 9% beer.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Sep 2021
at 04:58
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can. Hazy gold, white head. Citrus, mango, tropical fruit, caramel malt, pine notes.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Aug 2021
at 04:49
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Clear coppery body, thick, puffy cream head. Nose the classic triad of citrus, pine, and toasty malts. Toasty-sweet body with big pine and citrus rind, balanced by leafy notes and hints of warming alcohol. Not too sweet or dry, with a firm yet restrained bitter finish. Clean and efficient.
Tried
on 29 Jun 2021
at 17:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can. Rich amber beer with a dark cream head. Grapefruit and pine aroma. Grapefruit and pine flavor with caramel backing. Medium bodied. Very good bitterness. Grapefruit and pine linger with caramel backing.
Tried
from Can
on 26 May 2021
at 16:43
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Kind of a blend between old and new east and west styles IPA. Great balance between bitter, sweet, and carbonation with sweet intro and slightly bitter finish. Perfect body and good drinking. A bit punchy. Good stuff.
Tried
on 21 May 2021
at 02:01
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
4 pack at home. Amber orange fairly large head. Nose is grapefruit and some red fruits. Tastes of grapefruit, pine, resin, green vegetables, malty, some fruit punch. Touch old school DIPA. Smooth and chewy.
Tried
on 08 May 2021
at 01:44
7.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6
Very old-school DIPA, heavy on the caramel malt and orange, underlined by thick veins of resin and pine. Grapefruit pith, wood shavings, and a little tropical note peek through on the back end. Not a trace of the ABV, and the chewy feel makes for a hearty pint, but this pint ultimately seems a bit antiquated.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2021
at 00:03
8.2/10
Tried
from Can
on 15 Apr 2021
at 20:07
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Canned February 22nd 2021.
Pours a slightly hazy gold with an impressive head of foam. That's with a fairly gentle pour.
The smell is dank with tropical fruit, has aboot an equal bitter sweet thing going on.
Bitter sweet it is. Tropical fruit, grapefruit, really sweet malt, dank, almost overwhelming flavours along with a rather strong alcohol kick. 16 ounces, eh? Gonna be a chore.
Full bodied with the beer sticky on my tongue.
Ok. This is the type of Imperial IPA that I do not fancy so much.
Pours a slightly hazy gold with an impressive head of foam. That's with a fairly gentle pour.
The smell is dank with tropical fruit, has aboot an equal bitter sweet thing going on.
Bitter sweet it is. Tropical fruit, grapefruit, really sweet malt, dank, almost overwhelming flavours along with a rather strong alcohol kick. 16 ounces, eh? Gonna be a chore.
Full bodied with the beer sticky on my tongue.
Ok. This is the type of Imperial IPA that I do not fancy so much.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Apr 2021
at 01:30
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Copper pour. The aroma is full of resinous hops with some citrus. The aggressively bitter, hop heavy flavor has pine and citrus with a solid malt backbone. This is a delicious IIPA.
Tried
on 13 Mar 2021
at 03:58