Palate Wrecker
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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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours golden amber, does what it says on the tin, incredibly bitter, fruity, dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jan 2015
at 03:38
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at CASC. Hazy golden body with a thin white head. Steady carbonation. Light lacing. Aroma of... not very much. Faint whiff of pine and citrus. Flavour of honey, raw hops, orange and grapefruit. Alcohol is well hidden. Medium body with an oily texture. Light fizz. Massively bitter but more balanced than I thought it would be.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2014
at 02:33
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at CBC 2014. Beer in the glass deep golden, nice head. Fruity-hoppy aroma. Starts intense hoppy, fruity, notes of lemon and grapefruit. Bitter finish. Quite drinkable. Nice!
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Aug 2014
at 05:25
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
bottle - Pours lightly hazy amber with a one finger, off-white head and good lacing. It has a good citrus hop aroma. The flavor is very bitter with citrus hop character, a hint of resin, and a solid malt body. It’s very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2014
at 11:39
9.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle, 0.355l. Clear amber orange color with large rocky off-white head, good lacing and flat visible carbonation. Aroma of citrus, berries, mango and resin hops. Taste starts with moderate sweet and rich caramel malt, following is resinous with dried fruits’ acidity and well hidden alcohol, mouthfeel is spicy, while finish is heavy bitter with long aftertaste. Full body, oily texture and soft carbonation in palate. Harsh astringent start turns into completely palatable brew, however it’s balanced with huge amount of malts...
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2014
at 13:14
Tried
on 07 Aug 2014
at 19:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at the Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2014, yellow session. 02/05/2014. Bright golden orange coloured pour with small head. Aroma is sweet juicy resinous hops and orange peel. Flavouir is mouth coating resin hops, touch of sweet cara malts, and spicy hop in the finish.Huge lasting hop bitterness is out off balance, but pretty clean,. out of balance and my palate is wrecked.
Tried
on 29 Jul 2014
at 14:45
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught, St Augs. Hazy light copper, extra chewy, lots of chewy crystal malt and syrupy syrup. Quite bitter and quite sweet. Bit boozy in the finish. Really nothing I want in a beer, but credit for decent balance and at least coming close to smoothness.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2014
at 16:48
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Bottle Shop at home. Translucent dark amber pour. Very sweet juicy hoppy aroma. Taste is overpoweringly resiny hops. Not syrupy but very vegetal. Lasting boozy finish. Like the hoppiness but not as good as other extremely high IBU DIPAs. Good to try but wouldn't get again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2014
at 10:07
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Poured from 1 pint 6 fl oz bottle. Golden orange with white head. Aroma has lots of malt with caramel and earthy and sweet hops. You get a subtle sweetness at first and a resinous dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2014
at 23:08