G'Knight
Oskar Blues Brewery in Longmont, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Red Rotating|
Score
7.44
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Imperial Red IPA
Bold herbal and tangerine hop flavors meet complex caramel-and-toffee maltiness in this high-flying Imperial Red India Pale Ale named for craft beer pioneer and helicopter hero Gordon Knight.
Bold herbal and tangerine hop flavors meet complex caramel-and-toffee maltiness in this high-flying Imperial Red India Pale Ale named for craft beer pioneer and helicopter hero Gordon Knight.
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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A rich reddy amber body with a dense beige head. The nose is an engaging mix of big, fresh resinous hops, brown sugar and malt. A really tasty malt forward imperial ipa. Rich caramel, chewy biscuit malt and cereal form the backbone. Grapefruit, orange and pine resin lead an impressive hop profile. Coats the mouth with sweetness. A dense, slick body.
Tried
on 23 Sep 2025
at 20:09
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
From the sterk, Amsterdam. You smell a side of pine tree and the trend is to make IPA with a strong side of pine tree, this one is well done, 29.06.19, at home, Epalinges.
Tried
from Can
from
Sterk Avondverkoop
on 10 Sep 2025
at 17:38
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6
Canned of course. Poured dark, some earthiness and some caramel. The hops were pretty mild. good.
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 00:54
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
really nice amber color, thick creamy head, wicked lacing on my glass....looks like glue! Wow, the hops aroma is really nice, and floral. The flavour is huge on the hops, and the malt balances it out really nicely. Very well balanced beer. Wicked stuff, and the 8.7% is nowhere to be found, this is quality beer! I would say this is a DIPA.
Tried
on 27 Feb 2025
at 12:14
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Speciaalbierpakket, not as fresh as I'd like. Aroma is firm biscuity malt, caramel, resinous hops, grapefruit, ripe-ish fruits, orange, and plenty of pine resin. Flavour is medium sweet and above moderate bitter. Body is above medium, bit sticky. Very resinous and malty with definitely some fruity hops as well, I'd like to try this again fresh from draft at the brewery one day.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
355ml can from Dunell's in Jersey, pours dark amber with a white head. Aromas & tastes of grapefruit, orange peel, lemon, pine, earth, caramel, hints of spice, hops & malt. Medium body. Moderate bitter finish. Outstanding
Tried
from Can
on 31 Jan 2025
at 11:58
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Notes from 1/27/2009 Growler fill from Whole Foods. Poured into my Ommegang Anniversary glass. Awesome clarity. Lightly steeped tea/dark amber color, coating lace that eventually thins out into even wavelengths. Resin & pine dominate the scent. A whole level fumier then anything I've had in the can. Alcohol & sticky malts, turning towards bitter tangerine at the end of the whiff. Plenty of resin & grapefruit dominating the taste. A sharp sighting of malt right through the middle, finishing off with a doughy & dusty patting of bread crust & a linger of juicy rind. Definitely drier & more reminiscent of an imperial amber/red as the consensus here believes. Though not to the point the canned variety is. That version would probably score a little duller in regards to intensity. A sure stronger vibrancy to this serving. A growler wasn't too bad. No vertigo that a plate of leftovers can't cure. $10 later & Mondays still suck, but who'd remember? :P
Tried
from Growler
on 31 Dec 2024
at 21:46
8/10
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:50
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can from Beer Republic. Hazy amber, big, foamy, off-white head. Aroma of raisin, red grape, ripe blood orange, hard caramel, peach, green tea, pink grapefruit peel, vague aniseed. Taste has sweet peach, raisin & red grape in a caramelly, biscuity malt body surrounded by herbal & spicy notes, a tad sugary. Herbal hoppy finish offering pink grapefruit, citrus peel and raisin; alcohol remains well-hidden. Medium body, slick-sticky texture, average carbonation. Pretty decent but I expected more (considering the overall score).
Tried
on 08 Sep 2022
at 10:32
7/10
Last one in this style was aug/2019, malty base, caramel, candy sugar, some resinous aroma, medium body, smooth, malty flavours are dominant, sweetish, decent bitter flavours, it’s okay
Tried
from Can
on 30 Jul 2022
at 15:30