Imperial IPA
Beerdevelopment Viven in Sijsele, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: De ProefbrouwerijIPA - Imperial / Double Regular
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Score
7.36
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Brewed with Tomahawk and Simcoe hops. Viven Imperial IPA came from the westcoast of America but is brewed in Flemish style and gives a great result. It will make the beer lovers heart beat a bit faster. An adventure for your senses. Amber coloured with a thin off-white head, Viven Imperial IPA is a good hoppy beer with citrus accents. Fruity nose (peach and pink grapefruit) with floral flavours, recalls a forest (spruce) in the early morning. The hops are prominent. Viven Imperial IPA is pleasently bitter.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Pours deep golden with a slight haze and a dense off-white head. Juicy and peachy American aroma hops. Medium body, very very fruity, some leathery and peachy accents and an almost astringent bitterness. A good IPA - if not exactly an IIPA. 150610
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2010
at 11:30
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Banbury Beer Festival, May 2010 (used my staff tokens to take a couple home with me) Pours amber with huge billowing white head. Wonderful hoppy aroma I get citrus, with tangerine showing and then there is some soft fruits also. Taste is really hoppy but nicely balanced with a good layer of sweetness, very American in style but also with some Belgian characteristics, I’m not sure that I could identify what they are but there are some I’m sure. Lovely stuff, alcohol is well hidden. A8 A4 F8 P4 Ov16 4.0 Had this again On tap at Klein Deugniet, Alkmaar, Nord Holland, Netherlands 28th September 2016 Still a fab beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2010
at 13:15
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Huge amberish head over clear copper beer. Classical C-hops with lots of cakey malts to smell. Slightly soapy aroma and touches of caramel. Huge USA hops presence, but the malts promised in the nose are pretty much absent. Flavour turns hence out to clear, fresh hops, slightly fruity (grapes) & flowery, but the MF is rather thin, certainly for an "Imperial". Well-carbonated MF, despite no visual confirmation. Bit of harsh bitterness in the aftertaste. Certainly USA in the hops, but a bit... British in the mouthfeel.
Tried
on 08 May 2010
at 08:09
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle from Beermerchants.com. Dark amber pour with a white head. Fruity aromas of peaches, pineapples, tropical fruit, pears with a hint of heather and herbs. Crikey! That’s a sharp old flavour! Hop heavy fruity taste. Sharp hoppy tingle on the tongue. Finishes with more hops than Danny and the Juniors with a tad of bitterness. Very good iterpretation of an American IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2010
at 07:24
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from the Hopduvel warehouse, Ghent. An amber coloured pour with a smallish white head. Big American fruity, hoppy aroma. Tastes hoppy, piney, fruity really like a US DIPA an amazing copy of the style. If I was blindfolded I would not believe that this was a Belgian beer. A really good, complex DIPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2010
at 13:40
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
On tap at 3rd Brugs BF. Hazy amber orange colour, white head. Aroma of lavender, grapefruit and oranges. Flavour is oranges, grapefruit, some lavender, some caramel, very bitter all around, dry bitter finish. Soft mouthfeel, medium bodied, and good!
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Nov 2009
at 08:41