Imperial IPA
Geary Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.60
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a golden bronzed copper sort of color with a slim cap of a little white foamy head that quickly fell off. Not much lace.
The aroma had some sweet orange marmalade playing with some caramel/toffee backbone and a little bit of bubblegum and sweet dried wood. Grassy to earthy hop bitterness.
The flavor wrote the prior mentioned aromas into the taste sweetly and guided fairly nice into the aftertaste and then on into the finish.
The palate was about medium bodied with a structured carbonation that felt fine. ABV felt as projected.
Overall, good for a DIPA by a brewery that I tend to take for granted sometimes.
Beerfest5 (1972) reviewed Imperial IPA from Geary Brewing Company 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Not a bad beer by any stretch, but a little harsh. The hops are true English, they add enough spice to the aroma and flavor, but they don’t dominate like an imperial ipa should. The sweet malts become way too sweet by the end and become cloying by the final sip.
yespr (55501) reviewed Imperial IPA from Geary Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From tap at Sunset Grill. Pours hazy orange with a small white and lacing head. Aroma is fruity and crisp citrusy hoppy, light peachy. Bitter, slight herbal, pine and grapefruity hoppy. Ends dry and bitter, yet smooth.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Imperial IPA from Geary Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle at ChrisOs ’Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia’ tasting. Diacetyl. Some toffee and hot hop. Too much diacetyl for me though.
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Imperial IPA from Geary Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
22nd May 2010. ChrisOs ’Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia’ tasting! (Early hours of the morning rating). Clear amber beer. Small white head. Dry hops - a little spicy. Lingering piney and grassy notes. Some bubblegum sweet malt to finish.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Imperial IPA from Geary Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 12fl.oz. @ chrisos Back In The UK Tasting.Clear medium amber orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, light butter, moderate hoppy. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100522]
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Imperial IPA from Geary Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
bottle at Chris-O ... butterscotch and pine hop nose ...sweet buttery hop ... some oddness ... unpleasent
BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed Imperial IPA from Geary Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle via a trade with dkachur. Pours with a fading off-white head over a hazy golden body. Aroma is fruity with hops, citrus and caramel. Taste is orange, orange peel, citrus caramel and decently bitter. Creamy carbonation.
ben4321 (11522) reviewed Imperial IPA from Geary Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Location: 12 oz bottle from Wine and Beer Westpark, 12/19/09
Aroma: Nose is sweetish with resin, citrus, caramel, and pine
Appearance: Hazy, dark caramel colored with a thin beige head
Flavor: Somewhat sweet up-front with a moderately long, bitter finish
Palate: This one has a medium body and is slightly dry
Overall Impression: Not the best DIPA I've ever had, but it is a solid beer. It could use some work to make it really good, but as is, it is pretty solid.
nimbleprop (16712) reviewed Imperial IPA from Geary Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle sampled at the DC local tasting. Pours a transparent, copper amber with a creamy, lightly lacing white head. Aroma is all hops, spicy, resiny, a little earthy. Flavor is more pine, some sweet caramel, lemon zest, biscuit malt. Dry finish, slightly bitter.