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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8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle - Assault of the senses, huge hop nose with pine, grapefruit and sweetness. Clear amber with a rich thick never ending head. Ton’s of hop flavours, again piney with grapefruit and sweetness. A nice bitterness follows the flavours through. Oily on the tongue. Not a sessionable beer, but a fantastic finish to your palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2012
at 21:26
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
33cl bottle @ Sorbon, Bromma. Clear dark orange color, medium sized off-white head. Smell and taste llight to moderately malty, bitter, fruity, hops, slightly citrus, slightly peach and some resin. Medium to very bitter aftertaste. Sticky texture. Medium body, medium carbo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2012
at 05:38
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, 9.5%. Slightly hazy amber with medium off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, hops, peach, little citrus and a little grapefruit. Flavour is malt, fruit, hops, grapefruit, little peach, little citrus, piney and bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2012
at 09:28
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
(Bottle, 0.355 l, at Kahdet Kasvot, 20120811) The beer poured deep amber and clear. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had pine, grass, resin and malts. Palate was almost full bodied and somewhat warming with medium carbonation. Flavours were pine, resin, malts, sweetness and bitterness. Aftertaste was hoppy, boozy and bitter. A beer with good hop profie but alcohol pushed through too much.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2012
at 06:50
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Clear deep amber liquid with medium to large, firm off-white head. Nice lacing. Aroma is really hoppy with notes of pine, citrus, caramel malt, biscuits, grapefruit and some tropical fruit. Taste is dry and high bitter with caramel and citrus. No metallic bitterness even though it’s very high. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Nice stuff, but a bit too malt driven for me. Could have used more aroma hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Aug 2012
at 14:35
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled. A pale amber beer with a huge lazing yellowish head. The aroma has notes of hops, hops, and more hops, as well as caramel, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of hops, hay, alfa acids, caramel, and malt, leading to a very bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2012
at 12:57
8.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 6
Overall 9.5
From a 650ml bottle on 12/7/2012. Pours a fairly clear dark golden with a biggish fluffy head. Has an exquisite, heavy floral aroma featuring lychee, passionfruit, pineapple and grapefruit, against a light caramel background. This is a hop bomb flavour wise, with an extreme, lingering grapefruity, resiny bitterness the defining element (the listed IBU rings true). But there’s lots of lovely sweetness in there as well, with orange marmalade, apricot, honey and caramel all in the mix. The texture is slightly creamy. A huge, complex, wonderful balanced imperial IPA. Green Flash beers truly rock.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2012
at 02:05