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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In 2013 Mike Hinkley, Green Flash co-founder, turned to the friends at St-Feuillien and proposed to work together in our efforts to get fresh West Coast IPA to market in Europe. Dominique Friart and her team agreed to allow Chuck Silva, Green Flash brewmaster, to physically brew West Coast IPA using the state-of-the-art equipment at their new facility in Le Roeulx, Belgium.
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.
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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8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
0.355l bottle. Orange/amber body, beige head. Aroma of bread, biscuit, caramel, tropical fruits and pine. Taste of toast, caramel, pine and citruses. Very dry, light-medium bodied beer. It’s also really bitter but very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2015
at 06:59
6.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
0,33L bottle (from Stockmann), BB 30.03.2017. Pours amber with beige head. The head stays. Aroma is very weak sweetness, alcohol, malt, and citrus. Flavor is sweet and bitter, caramel, malt, pine, some citrus, touch of alcohol. Finish is long resin bitter. Overall: very disappointing brew. The long bitter finish is the only nice part of this brew. --- Beer merged from original tick of West Coast IPA (Brewed at St. Feuillien) on 06 Feb 2019 at 11:03. Original review text: bl
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jul 2015
at 12:23
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Fluffy to whipped eggwhite head over hazy orange-golden beer. Rainwater, sweet fruit and sweet citrus, bit catty. Toasted malts, liquourice, faint hoppy bitterness, growing into the finish and becoming vegetable-like (Belgian endives). Creamy head, but beer is well-carbonated, hence lightler and lively. Medium bodied. Not very WestCoast, IMO.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2015
at 10:13
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 330 ml from Za Popen’t. courtesy of and shared with Kova. Pours golden with white head. Pine and citrus hoppy. Sweetish. Yeasty and bit spicy, didn’t expect that. Not bad but original was much better.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Za Popen't Pivoteka
on 15 Jun 2015
at 12:45
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from wwebb SB cons 2015-06-08 Duved Named West Cost IPA, Double India Pale Ale, Extravagantly Hopped AR: glue, when poured spicey, wee dried tropical fruit AP: dark orange amber, high frothy cream orange head, traces of curtains F: warming feeling, fizzy, nail polish, heavy grapefruit bitternessm, lemon dryness
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2015
at 10:46
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled (from Systembolaget Umeå). Amber colourm small off-white head. Aroma is caramel, floral notes, mild toffee as well as some grassy notes. Flavour is floral, grassy, some mild sappy/resiny notes as well as some sweet malts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2015
at 13:52
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled 330ml (Systembolaget)
Amber clear color, good cloudy head, lace. Sweetish, candy fruity aroma. Medium-bodied. Clean mouthfeel. Malty, sweet fruity with some resiny bitterness. Much more simple and sweetish than the original.
Amber clear color, good cloudy head, lace. Sweetish, candy fruity aroma. Medium-bodied. Clean mouthfeel. Malty, sweet fruity with some resiny bitterness. Much more simple and sweetish than the original.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2015
at 13:49
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hazy orange color with big white head. Very resinous aroma, a bit citrus and caramel. Taste is nice, fruity, resinous. Smooth carbonation. Okay, but a bit underwhelming. Let’s see how the American version is, which I’ll hopefully find on my next trip to California.
Tried
from Can
on 16 May 2015
at 18:01