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 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
12oz bottle picked up at Total Wine in LV. Pours clear dark golden with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Resin, fruity, malts, pine. Good dipa, abv is well hidden.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2020
at 03:07
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle pour (3/10/20) from Harvest Market, Bedford (R.I.P.). Appearance is clear orange-light amber with light, lazy sparkle, finger-width off-white head with poor retention and trace lacing. Aroma is moderate pine, malt and milder citrus fruit. Taste is strong bitter resinous pine dominating caramel malt and less strong lemony citrus. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with frothy texture, lively carbonation, nice alcohol warmth and dry, bitter finish. Overall, pretty good old school DIPA (which makes sense given 3 of the 4 initial base IPA's were released 2013 and before). More bitterness than I tend to like and a bit too carbonated for the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2020
at 02:12
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 oz bottle. Pours yellow amber, clear, with an off-white head. Piney hop aroma hinting at citrus and tropical fruits. Flavor is again pine hops and some citrus, herbal hops, occasionally tealike, over a nice but not overbearing malt base. Really nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2020
at 06:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
$2.80 bottle, WW. Golden-amber with an off-white head. Citrus, floral hops, resiny nose. Flavor is orange peel, resin, caramel, pine, grapefruit, light vanilla. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 May 2020
at 20:52
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 oz. Almost two months old. Aroma is cantaloupe, toast, Smarties. Pours clear new penny copper with some tiny sediment and a large cream-white head with excellent retention; leaves curtains of lace. Taste has a highly bitter pithiness with some faint candy sweetness. I'm not getting any of the citrus qualities the label talks about, other than citrus pith. It's good, though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2020
at 02:27
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
12oz bottle. Pretty solid IIPA. Filtered orange-amber body. Nice hop depth, seems touched by Mosaic or something to give it that peachy mango juicy tone. Filtration keeps it drinkable. Big, deep malt tones nonetheless. Rather neo-classical IIPA. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2020
at 06:37
8.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Total Wine and More in Reston, VA Aroma: citrus, caramel, pine Appearance: clear amber-golden with an off-white head Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness Mouthfeel: average carbonation, medium body, sticky feel, long finish Delicious
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2020
at 23:43
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Whole Foods. Deep golden bordering on copper with a huge off white head that persists. Citrus and dank pint with a bit of watering alcohol. Pretty old school lots of tangerine and grapefruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Apr 2020
at 18:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle from Festival Northland, 3/30/20. Clear copper thin tan head, good retention. Aroma of lemon, tangerine, grapefruit, pale malt. Taste is dank, lemon, grapefruit, melon, a bit of tropical fruit, pale malt. Medium bodied, moderate bitterness, booze pretty well hidden. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2020
at 03:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12oz bottle. A nod to the imperial IPA of a few years ago. Big and bitter - you know it’s strong right away. Pretty darn good
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2020
at 14:53