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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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours clear bright copper with a nice foamy white head. Aroma is pine and roasty malt. Approaching full bodied. Smooth texture. Flavor is pine/resin, roasty malt/caramel, and something a bit like green hoppy veg. It is dry and bitter. And then it's a bit malty and bitter. Really nice - seems rather old school. Good that.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2020
at 02:23
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Grapefruit and malt. Oh God an IPA with malt! Thank the gods! Sharp bitter finish. Some peel. Golden amber pour with decent head. Bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2020
at 01:37
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A purchase yesterday at a Las Vegas Total Wine. I have cooled off significantly and will pour into a highball glass. It serves up a mostly clear orange-gold liquid followed by a magnificent parchment brown head. A fine scent, hops, pine and tropical. A drink turns up a nice jolt of hoppiness, pineapple, a pleasant sweetness, grass, all with a moderate bitterness. Good, short of great.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Aug 2020
at 23:23
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours dark gold, medium transparency, with fine, creamy, white foam. Aroma is very hoppy, with resinous and piney feelings. Body is fairly dense, a nice mouthful, with fine tickling carbonation. Taste is aggressively bitter, but with a very nice underlying sweetness. Final is long and bitter.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Aug 2020
at 14:51
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Aug 2020
at 16:42
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle. Clear amber orange color. Rocky beige head is long lasting with nice clinging lace. Toasted malt aroma hints at caramel and spicy pine hops. Bittersweet toasted malt flavor. Hints of brown sugar are quickly overtaken by intense waves of grapefruit rind and dank, spicy hops. Lots of gratuitous alcohol notes as well. Somewhat light-bodied for such a high alcohol (9.2% ABV) hop bomb. Finishes intensely bitter with notes of resiny pine, lime pith and Black pepper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2020
at 04:31
6/10
Amber pour. Clear pour. Sweet tasting hops with extreme bitter palate. Light carbonation.
Tried
on 09 Jun 2020
at 02:47
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Rose hip nose. Clear deep amber, medium head. Rose hip, dark honey, grass, pine. A touch metallic. Full body, easy carbonation, oily. Nice balance for the style.
Tried
on 09 Jun 2020
at 00:34
8.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 7.5
Orange, biscuit malt, grapefruit peel, pine, and quinine aroma. Golden yellow with large off-white head. Moderately sweet orange, biscuit malt, and very bitter grapefruit peel, pine, and quinine flavor. Great body and balance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2020
at 01:48
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Super deep copper, bronze and light brown coloured body with a thinnish, two centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of alcohol, pine, resin, pineapple, grass and a good deal of candy as well. Medium-bodied; Rich resinous hop notes show through with pineapple, pine and grapefruit also noticeable. Some dry malt, biscuits, grain and a dash of hay all noticeable, but the resinous hoppiness, sticky, syrupy sweetness and especially alcohol bite are much stronger. Aftertaste is rich and very piney with a lot of hop bitterness along with a dash of pepper and deep flavours, but the alcohol and deep syrupy sweetness are both very strong. A lot of character and deep flavours are noticeable, but the bitterness and pungent hops are by far the strongest. Overall, a good enough Imperial IPA with a lot of pungent flavours, but nothing unique or too nice so surpass most others in the style. Nice to try, but not worth trying to find or saving for any sort of special occasion. Nice to sample, and I'll see how these other three (I bought the full four pack!) change over time, but I'm not expecting too much, honestly. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Costco in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 28-April-2020 for US$9,49 (four pack) sampled at my house here in Washington a few blocks away on 04-June-2020.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jun 2020
at 06:23