West Coast IPA | Green Flash Brewing Co.

4.4/5  rDev +5%

4.04/5  rDev -3.6%

4/5  rDev -4.5%

This is the *Belgian*-brewed version contracted out to St Feuillien. It's bottle-conditioned to help shelf life for European distribution; otherwise aiming for the same standard, so (and I checked with moderators) goes in the same entry as the native version. Notes are combined from a few tastings, not simultaneous but about a week removed from sampling a bottle of the American version.... Appearance is spot on, the copper of a cloudy Pacific sunset, under a layer of finely bubbled, creamy head, with just a bit of milky residue in the bottle to attest to the refermentation. The nose seems slightly less powerful and less flowery, but still an enticing pine forest with bready notes, a bit of banana (it's not Belgian yeast, though), some subtle spicing, but clean. Flavor to me seems slightly fruitier and less cereal, with juicy apricot, mandarin orange, plus a bit of sweet grapefruit flesh to go with the punch of grapefruit pith of the hops. Aftertaste/feel of pine resin and florals lingers nicely. Similarly substantial and creamy mouthfeel that swallows cleanly. My impression is of a very close fraternal twin.

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4.5/5  rDev +7.4%

4/5  rDev -4.5%

3.25/5  rDev -22.4%

3.75/5  rDev -10.5%

4.7/5  rDev +12.2%

4/5  rDev -4.5%

4.12/5  rDev -1.7%

5/5  rDev +19.3%

4.04/5  rDev -3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

4.75/5  rDev +13.4%

4.2/5  rDev +0.2%

4.44/5  rDev +6%

4.68/5  rDev +11.7%

4/5  rDev -4.5%

4.16/5  rDev -0.7%

4.32/5  rDev +3.1%

3.75/5  rDev -10.5%

Pretty good IPA but hard into the pine, green. Very intense in that sense, could be a bit better balanced in my opinion but it is a great example of the west coast IPA!

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3.75/5  rDev -10.5%

4/5  rDev -4.5%

4.46/5  rDev +6.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

4.25/5  rDev +1.4%

4/5  rDev -4.5%