Imperial IPA
Beerdevelopment Viven in Sijsele, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: De ProefbrouwerijIPA - Imperial / Double Regular
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Score
7.34
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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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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A dark orange colour, a head is big and blond. The nose has tropical fruits, mangos and grapefruits, some pine needles, not much of sweetness. Taste is strongly grapefruity, some fruits, sourness of citrusfruits. The bitterness is strong and long lasting. Nice sweetness, read as not too much. Medium+ bodied, strong carbonation. Succesfully DIPA, not too sweet and strong bitterness, balanced.
Tried
on 03 Jan 2015
at 08:04
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ Hogerdijk, Culemborg. Dark hazy amber with a big off-white head. Malty tropical fruit aroma. Good strong bitterness and more tropical fruits in the taste. Long lasting bitter finish. Nice DIPA
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2014
at 14:03
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Drank at the East Meets West and Drinks Too Much event at the Only. Split a bottle with the vociferous and astute Mr. Freaky_tiki. I usually just ogle the amazing bottle beer selection at the Only while drinking too many of what’s on tap. Pours a cloudy red-orange (keeping the questionable bar lighting in mind.) Offers a creamy malt nose with a resin hoppiness. The taste has some nice caramel flavors but is dominated by a resin and perfume hops, with some bittering that carries though to the aftertaste. No too bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2014
at 15:26
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle to glass at Cafe Rose Red in Brugge. First beer in Brugge at a wonderful bar. Aromas explode out of the glass of fresh citrus hop. Slightly haze pale orange with full white head. Amazing flavor as well for a great start to the trip.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2014
at 23:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
One of the more ’spectacular’ Vivens after the relaunch of the brand, this one launched in 2009. Off-white, creamy head and amber colour with brownish hue, cloudy. Tempting perfume in the nose, roses, apple, bittersweet honey, spiced ’jenever’, mint and lots of herbal and peppery hops. Apply onset, clear and rounded, bit honeyish, quickly overwhelmed by a very powerful, almost agressive, herbal and citrussy hoppiness, creating a long, tingling, dry, bitter finish. Great Belgian interpretation of an American style, I’m all for IPAs and this one can stand the comparison with many of its American congeners.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Aug 2014
at 08:35
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Home. Pours hazy orange with creamy offwhite head, nice lacings. Aroma of malt, light caramel, grass, fruity hops, peach. Flavor is malty, little sweet, caramel, sweet fruity hops, little piney. Medium body, soft carbonation, light bitter finish. 230814
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2014
at 08:18
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
0,33L bottle, BB 16.12.2015. Pours amber with off-white head. The head stays. Aroma is very fruity, sweet, mandarins, peaches, and malt. Flavor is mandarin, orange, tropical fruits, malt. Finish is long dry bitter. Alcohol is well covered. Overall: nice hoppy brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2014
at 11:58
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
BOTTLE 33CL from dcmchew. Thanks!
Look:: hazy amber-red, light tan-orangey frothy to creamy head.
Aroma:: strong fruity hops - blackberry, ripe pine-apple, tropical fruit and just a touch of resin, a healthy malt backbone - like a caramel and cream desert.
Taste: again, strong sour-and-sweet fruit balanced by rich caramel and a strong but soft bitter finish. Excellent!
Look:: hazy amber-red, light tan-orangey frothy to creamy head.
Aroma:: strong fruity hops - blackberry, ripe pine-apple, tropical fruit and just a touch of resin, a healthy malt backbone - like a caramel and cream desert.
Taste: again, strong sour-and-sweet fruit balanced by rich caramel and a strong but soft bitter finish. Excellent!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2014
at 16:03
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle, 330 ml at ’t Brugs Beertje, Brugge. Pours cloudy amber with lasting white head. Fruity hop aroma. Fruit, citrus, piney flavor. A lot of bitterness. Great DIPA.
Tried
from Bottle
at
't Brugs Beertje
on 11 Jul 2014
at 10:44
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from bier-deluxe.de. Dark amber colored beer with thick persistent off-white head. Strong citrus hoppy aroma with caramel. Fruity hoppy taste with caramel and solid malty backbone. Long hoppy bitter finish. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2014
at 14:20