West Coast IPA (European Edition)
Green Flash Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Brasserie St-Feuillien / FriartIPA - Imperial / Double Regular
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Score
6.89
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The recipe for Green Flash West Coast IPA in Belgium is as close a replica to the U.S. version of the beer as possible - the ingredients include the same hops, malts and the Green Flash house yeast. Each are produced using the same complex brewing process. The only difference is that the West Coast IPA produced in Belgium is bottle-conditioned to protect beer quality in areas of Europe where unrefrigerated conditions may be unavoidable.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
1st August 2016
Euro Edition. Hazy gold - amber beer, small cream colour head. Palate is airy, mildly dry and has decent fine carbonation. Light malts, mildly sweet. Orange peel and tangerine marmalade. Mild hops spice. Nice light tropical fruits. Piney floralness. Smooth finish. Perhaps a little sweeter than the original but very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
Review based on the BJCP2015 guidelines (style 22A). Bottle 33 cl - Batch 6398. AROMA: medium-low hop aroma with pine and resin notes followed by a moderate malt background with caramel/toffee notes. APPEARANCE: amber color and clear. medium ivory head with medium retention. slight leg formation. TASTE: medium hop flavor with pine and resin notes, followed by a prominent toffee/caramel malt background. balance toward malt. high bitterness with a semi-dry to dry finish. PALATE: medium-light body with medium carbonation. no astringency from hops. no alcohol warming perceived. OVERALL: a double IPA that misses the style and the principal ingredient: hops.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft. An amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of malt, spices, hops, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of chewy malt, caramel, hops juice, exotic fruit, and spices, leading to a bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Clear amber, rocky offwhite head. Light peach and pine aroma, grassy, slightly floral. Piney, caramely flavour. Fluffy, creamy mouthfeel with lasting bitter and dry finish. Rough with hints of spice. Flavourful but slightly watery.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
330ml bottle @ Chez Sophie, Shrewsbury. Pours hazy orangey amber with medium off-white head. Aroma is light resin. Taste is bright, hoppy with a robust bitterness and a nice fruity yeasty sweetness easing in on the finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Roodgeel bier met schuim. Smaak is hoppig bitter, licht zoet met iets van ananas, thee en abrikoos.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
KØLF 131115. Red golden-orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is citrus, fruit, pine. Flavour is fruit, malt, pine, hop, yeast, grain, citrus. Medium to full body. Nice beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
330 ml bottle. Almost clear, dark reddish golden body with a nice, dense, off-white head. A bit mild aroma of citric fruit and pine. Flavor is sweet malty, pretty bitter and citric fruit with some orange zest and resin. Fine body and OK aftertaste. Quite nice one, definitive not the everyday stuff to be seen from St. Fauilien.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 330ml. [ As Green Flash West Coast IPA (Brewed @ St-Feuillien) ].Clear medium orange color with a large, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate to heavy hoppy, fruity - floral, light citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration, citrus, fruity, flowers, floral. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20151024]
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Bottle Baron. Hazy amber body with a massive beige head. Aroma of stewed tea, honey and grass. Flavour of peppery spice, orange pith and wood. Medium body with a light, oily texture. Soft fizz. Not as nice as I remember it tasting previously in 2012 (when it was 7.3% and the label looked like something from the 80s). Drinks easily but lacks vibrancy. Very disappointing, as I’d rated the pre-2013 version at 4.2.