Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Grand Cru from Green Flash Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draught Yellow head, small, over dark brown beer with amber highlights. (Too) sharp-spicy nose, and the famous 4-vinyl guaiacol: bubblegum, cloves; treated wood, more fruity esters. Not very Belgian, BTW. Medium to well-bodied; very slick-oily, rather than full bodied. Sorry guys, to me this is more a Dunkel Weizenbock, than something powerful Belgian.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Barleywine from Green Flash Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Mossy coloured, dense head; dark amber-brown beer. Caramel, toffee with a lot of C-hops, and some bananaester. Chocolate, roasted and bits of hopbitterness, some background sweetness, caramelly. Very well-bodied, slick. Not uninteresting but I’ve had better BW’s; maybe lacking a bit of complexity.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Le Freak from Green Flash Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught Little rim on orange-metallic looking beer. Little nose, orange marmalade, spices, estery. Spicy, bitterness that is half-spicy, half hoppy. Again high temperatures? A tad lactic (not sour, more like coffee-milk). Medium bodied, but absolutely not empty, on the verge of astringent. OK, but not my favourite. I wonder what a "Belgian IPA" is supposed to be?
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught Huge, mango-yellow, dense head over slightly hazy pale amber beer. Fresh C-hops, orange rind, orange cake. Taste differs seriously with a very cake, pastry-like taste, seriously diminishing the hops, in a balancing way. Some oxydation apparent. Well-bodied, viscous and nearly pappy, bit sticky. Good one, but it ought not to get oxydized so fast.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Imperial IPA from Green Flash Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Draught Medium, dense yellowish head, over deep-golden beer. There is a strange, off-aroma in the nose. Some speak of garlic, I think of insectoid. And some hops, of course, the cat-piss (valerian) ones. The Summit - or the Nugget?. In the taste, I get the garlic clearly myself. Something wrong there, and it destroys all the fun. Astringent MF, going with the taste. Ouch - misser for this sample.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught Foxy-amber beer with a huge yellow head. USA C-hops, lemon and passion fruit. Bit metallic in the taste, but C-hops balanced by some caramelly malts; again quite fruity. Medium bodied, bit (hop?)oily, ends burning. Good IPA, ripened, which seems a problem in this brewery (see Saison,...).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught Hazy amber beer with mossy shine under a small yellow ring. C-hops, rainwater nose; bit of a dark candi sugar aroma? Bitter with a chocolate impression, greenery, dark leaves. A bit light in MF, slightly slick. Good, but discreet red ale.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Saison Diego from Green Flash Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught. The sample I had at the brewery was called " SUNSET Saison". If this is a different one, a Ca. admin ought to shift this to a new entry Good, very dense white head, fed by good carbonation in golden beer. Weird, part spicy, part mashtemperature-on-the-ramp aroma; bit fruity-yeasty. Same impression: yeast-fruity, and to "hot". Maybe a tad of wheat? Bit aggressive MF, carbonation imposing. Temperature control, please. Saison is not cooked in the fermenters, at least not in Belgium.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught Amber clear beer with small, off-white head. Flowery, delicate but outspoken dry hopse, dried roses, sultana’s. Un-be-lie-va-bly flowery, grapey, super-aromatic hops taste, amongst the most delicate and powerful ever tasted - superb. Slightly burning MF, medium bodied, fiery, slick. One of the best IPA’s I’ve ever had, full stop.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Imperial IPA from Green Flash Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample at Oggi’s Mission Valley location (originally rated 4/12, mistaken for an Oggi’s beer). This beer pours a mostly clear yellow-gold color with a medium thin off-white head that diminishes slowly. Thin rings of lacing on the glass. Citrus and hops aroma with a hint of spice. Medium-bodied with flavors of piney hops and spice, plus some grapefruit. Very little malt is present for balance. The finish is slightly astringent hops and citrus with a lingering hops aftertaste. Above average, and would be much better if it were more balanced.