Palate Wrecker
(has 4 batches)
Green Flash Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.56
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Palate Wrecker was originally brewed for the Hamilton’s Tavern 2nd Anniversary celebration. It’s the most complicated West Coast–inspired IPA we have ever brewed. With 6 pounds of hops per barrel, Palate Wrecker is officially the hoppiest beer in the ring. Our Double IPA is the result of a complex and innovative double-brewing process that is exclusively ours. First, there is a single infusion mash and subsequent boil at 65 IBU with Columbus and Centennial hops. Then, a second duplicate mash using the 65 IBU wort instead of water and a second 65 IBU boil using the same hop schedule. The result is a higher gravity beer with kettle caramelizing in place of crystal malts and an elevated hop flavor and bitterness that might not be achieved with the same amount of ingredients in a single brew.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
354 ml./12 fl. oz. bottle poured in to a snifter. Deep copper colour with a medium sized off-white head, that fades to a bubbly cap. Fruity aroma - a bit subdued - with grapefruit, pines, citrus hops and chocolate malts. Taste is sweet. Full body with an oily texture. Finishes long lasting with a good, heavy bitterness, light alcohol and chocolate malts. Excellent beer for the hop heads, lacks a little bit aroma to be really good however, still recommended.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2012
at 12:17
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12fl. oz. bottle from Bierkompass.de. Poured hazy orange colored with a frothy, bubbly white head. Aroma is very hoppy, pine, caramel, herbal notes. Intensely hoppy flavor, pine, exotic fruits, some sweet maltiness as well, toffee or caramel. Oily, slightly chewy mouthfeel. The finish is very bitter, mouthdrying, fruity. Truly a palate wrecker. Great DIPA, you don´t notice the ABV here at all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2012
at 10:46
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. It’s a hazy, dark golden beer topped by a dense, finger-thick off-white to beige head. Lots of hops in the aroma, green pine cones, resins and citrus peel, and also a touch of maltyness. The flavor has a pleasant underlying malty sweetness, and up front there’s hops, some more hops and even more hops. A nice bitterness, grass hints and lots of resins and citrus zest. Lasting finish. Pleasant indeed, sure wouldn’t mind having more of this. 120915
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2012
at 13:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle 355ml @ Geokkjer
Pours slightly hazy deep golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, citrus, grape and piney hops. Taste is medium sweet and medium to heavy bitter with a long bitter and citrus fruity finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours slightly hazy deep golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, citrus, grape and piney hops. Taste is medium sweet and medium to heavy bitter with a long bitter and citrus fruity finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2012
at 12:58
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
355ml bottle from Bierkompass
Pours dark orange with a bubbly and foamy white head. Aroma of strong malty notes, some aged hops and hints of glue. Taste is sweetish and malty with some bitter and grassy hops, hints of pine and spices. Finish is bitter and sweetish with a lot of maltiness and slight notes of alcohol pushing through. A bit unbalanced, quite malty and hoppy IIPA. Probably past it’s prime.
Pours dark orange with a bubbly and foamy white head. Aroma of strong malty notes, some aged hops and hints of glue. Taste is sweetish and malty with some bitter and grassy hops, hints of pine and spices. Finish is bitter and sweetish with a lot of maltiness and slight notes of alcohol pushing through. A bit unbalanced, quite malty and hoppy IIPA. Probably past it’s prime.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2012
at 09:14
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Green Flash Palate Wrecker (by Green Flash Brewing Company):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 5/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.3/5
4/IX/2012 12 FL. Oz. bottle De Hopduvel (Gent) @ Klaas' place - BB: n/a (2012-1007) Thanks to Klaas for sharing the bottle!
clear orange beer, big creamy yellowish head with some irregular bubbles, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of passion fruits, pineapple, resin, some flowers, sugar, honey. MF: soft carbon, full body, bit syrupy texture. Taste: citrus first, grapefruit, passion fruit, pineapple, sweet malts, honey, resin, very bitter hops. Aftertaste: grapefruit, very bitter ending, by chemical, still very fruity, dry and bitter. Amazingly balanced.
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 5/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.3/5
4/IX/2012 12 FL. Oz. bottle De Hopduvel (Gent) @ Klaas' place - BB: n/a (2012-1007) Thanks to Klaas for sharing the bottle!
clear orange beer, big creamy yellowish head with some irregular bubbles, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: lots of passion fruits, pineapple, resin, some flowers, sugar, honey. MF: soft carbon, full body, bit syrupy texture. Taste: citrus first, grapefruit, passion fruit, pineapple, sweet malts, honey, resin, very bitter hops. Aftertaste: grapefruit, very bitter ending, by chemical, still very fruity, dry and bitter. Amazingly balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Sep 2012
at 10:05
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled at Akkurat, Stockholm. Hazy pale amber, rich firm head. Tremendous aroma of swety tropical fruits and pink grapfruit. Medium-full body and soft, inviting mouthfeel. Loads of juicy hops. Intense, yet pleasant. Severe but never punishing bitterness. Green Flash has a way of making also very extreme beers acceaaible and drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2012
at 08:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Biggish deep offwhite head. Amber body. Resiny minty aroma with mango and spice notes. Sweet-dryish resiny minty citric taste with caramelly grassy notes. Full-bodied. Soft, smooth mouthfeel. Dry grassy pineapple aftertaste with caramelly dusty dandelion notes. Nice, harmonic, highly drinkable. (0.355l bottle, shared by gr0ve.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2012
at 08:05
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at the Boilermaker, Philly - 24/05/12. Copper coloured with a thin white head. Fresh grassy hops on the nose allied to a little fruit and sweet malt. Taste as aroma with pine and a hint of orange. Bitter tasting, medium dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Aug 2012
at 10:37
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
355 ml bottle @ Akkurat. Pours tiny hazy deep golden with a rather small frothy offwhite head that leaves a small trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is sweet, malty and hoppy with caramel, grapefruit juice, freshly cut grass, orange zest, bread, alcohol, unripe mango, pineapple and hints of pine and resinous wood. Taste is sweet, bitter, malty and hoppy with caramel, pine, bread, wood, grass, grapefruit rinds, peaches, mango, resin, pineapple and hints of alcohol. Mouthfeel is smooth, round, slightly oily bitter and medium to full bodied. Finish is slightly sweet and bitter with pine, caramel, grapefruit rinds, peaches, mango and bread.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Aug 2012
at 03:05