6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Growler pour from Meridian Pint - back in December. Poured a light yellow color with a medium sized white head. Aroma was nice light hop notes, with some mild pine and tropical fruit. Flavor was juicy hops, slight grass.
Tried
from Growler
on 20 Jan 2021
at 21:16
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Deep, super crystal clear amber, bronze and copper glowing body, with a nice one to two centimetre tall tan head that fades to an oily slick that barely covers the top. Aroma of pine, sap, malts, toasted grain, citrus, resin, honey and a lot of grassiness, all with a distinct herbal bite near the end of the nose. Medium to Full-bodied; Rich, syrupy, resinous and very piney bitterness up front with a strong herbal and grassy bite, but also a lot of sugars all coming through, with a pungent grainy malt characteristic and some deep, astringent and pungent flavours that of course show alcohol, but also a lot of medicinal bitterness. Aftertaste is rich, deep, very sweet, malty and showing perhaps too much resin, too much hop bitterness and too much leftover sweetness - this is very rich across the board. Overall, a strong, aptly named Imperial IPA with too much pungency and depth, definitely showing an 'old school' bite, but also too many sugars and astringency to be good. Nice to try and good if you want to reminisce from the Mid 2000s of how Imperial IPAs all used to be. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Total Wine in Manassas, Virginia on 27-November-2020 for US$4,99, which was canned on 24-April-2020 (a while ago), but was sampled at my house here in Washington on 06-December-2020.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Dec 2020
at 06:05
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From a pint can. Pours a clear copper with an off white head. Aromas are grassy. Flavors are bitter pine and dank hay.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Nov 2020
at 00:04
7/10
Dark pour. Thin tan foam. Chocolate, vanilla, and maple flavor. Very easy drinking. Coffee and vanilla palate
Tried
on 20 Jun 2020
at 01:08
7/10
Dark black body small tan head. Molasses toffee caramel maple aroma. Molassas maple toffee flavor. Medium body moderate carbonation. 7/5/7/3/14 3.6
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2020
at 19:09
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Pours golden with a thin white head. Aroma of weak malt, light bread. Taste has Pilsen malt, light grass notes. Palate has off-malt flavors. Eh.
Tried
on 10 Nov 2019
at 02:55
6.5/10
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Nov 2019
at 12:37
6/10
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Nov 2019
at 12:36
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz can from State Line. Pale golden with soft white head. Aroma features lemon and light grassy notes. Taste is light malts, citrus, grassy hops. Slight hop tingle.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Sep 2019
at 00:07
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
$3.79 pint can, TWG. Hint of haze in this pale gold pour. Aroma is grain, cereal. Flavor is grain, sweet grasses, light dried flowers. Not bad.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jul 2019
at 22:00