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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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
From Feb 2006
Poured from can a clear dark amber with a large head of foam that dissipated slowly.
The smell is all hops and it's bold as all outdoors.
The taste was more balanced than the smell insinuated. Yes, there's plenty of hop flavour but the malt is definitely there easing the bitterness to "non hop-head loving" levels making this DIPA one smoooth son of a gun and...the +9%abv is *very* well hidden.
Kudos to Oskar Blues!!
Bottom line: A double ipa that brings the hops but also kicks in with a huge malt backing...this is *great* stuff!!
Poured from can a clear dark amber with a large head of foam that dissipated slowly.
The smell is all hops and it's bold as all outdoors.
The taste was more balanced than the smell insinuated. Yes, there's plenty of hop flavour but the malt is definitely there easing the bitterness to "non hop-head loving" levels making this DIPA one smoooth son of a gun and...the +9%abv is *very* well hidden.
Kudos to Oskar Blues!!
Bottom line: A double ipa that brings the hops but also kicks in with a huge malt backing...this is *great* stuff!!
Tried
from Can
on 17 Oct 2017
at 09:47
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Tasting glass draft @ Billie’s Bier Kafétaria. Hazy darker orange, creamy off-white head. Nose is classical USA pine, moderate, hot very heavy with pine resin syrup, low floral, grapefruit peel, bitter but not extremely with some malt base goop. Taste is bitter basic, not too heavily so dry orange peel, pine resin & leaves, low flower, softer carbonation solid malt body lingering pine, floral, dark, low caramel malt. Balanced but likely only from a modern perspective classical pine resin & floral malty DIPA. Good classical stuff, does the trick. It is clear why this has enjoyed longevity and success. Enjoyed it greatly more than their regular IPA or Pine Throwback IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Oct 2017
at 14:37
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Can. Fruity/tropical and berry nose Dark red cloudy orange, golden creamy head. Sticky resiny hops on a anaemic malt base. Light body, dry, sticky. Blind I would have thought this to be a lot lower in alcohol.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Sep 2017
at 13:02
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
From a 355ml can on 9/8/2017. Pours a reddy amber with a medium head. The nose features, caramel, toast ans some fruity notes. Tatse wise, it features a nice malt and sweet fruit balance. More caramel and toast, followed by lots of apricot and peach. The hops give it a firm bitterness, which features a decent amount of pine and resin. The palate is thick and the carbonation moderate. Super easy drinking for something approaching 9%. Lovely.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Aug 2017
at 06:16
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from Alko in Vaasa. Pours lightly cloudy amber. Aroma is strong pine, resin, forest floor, mango, passion fruit. Body is heavy, sweet and strong. Decent bitterness, and very piney still. Comparably soft carbonation. Caramel, resin, bark. Lingering pine needle palate, sweet. Good!
Tried
from Can
on 14 Jul 2017
at 16:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
A dark red-brown beer, a head is big and beige. Aroma has caramel, mandarin, pine, tropical fruitness. Rich. Taste has caramel malts, citrus, pine and wood. Lots of caramel, but also enough of bitterness, thus balanced. Bitterness in the end. Medium+ bodied. Strong caramel but still nicely balanced. Very tasteful.
Tried
on 15 Jun 2017
at 08:29