Vivid
Gigantic Brewing Company

Bought 22oz bottle $5.99 Foodland
Hazy orange amber color
Medium mouthfeel
Light carbonation
Sweet mellow hops taste, not bitter like I had expected from an IPA. Hides alcohol very well
Overall a nice beer. Nothing exciting to make me want to buy it again, but was good to try.

 

8.5% Vivid Imperial IPA Gigantic Brewing out of a 650ml Bomber, into a pint. Purchased at 9.99
Picked up because Gigantic has done nothing but impressed. Also the art.
L: Light orange that turns murky Orange after it has sat for 5 ish mins. Little head, thin lacing.
S: Yeast and citrus. are main notes. Small resin kick, very faint.
T: Citrus is most noticeable flavour. Hoppy kick finish but very subtle, well-balanced.
F: Hoppyness lingers. very smooth can 8.5% hidden well but not overshadowed completely.
OV: Probably the most "normal" tasting beer from Gigantic I've had. Usually I taste something unique or out of the box but this is right up a typical imperial IPA valley. This isn't to say that it's bad, it's quite good. Just not my favourite from them.

 

22 oz bomber. Pours very hazy dark golden orange with a small creamy off white head that goes to a thin film and laces the glass.

The aroma is sweet bready malts with soft tropical fruit and green hops.

The flavor is sweet bready caramel malt with some tropical fruit and green peppery hops. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with low carbonation.

Overall, a nice IPA.

 

 

 

 

 

22oz bottle, no. 43 in their ongoing beer/artist match-up series, this one made with some exotic Wai-iti and Kohatu hops from New Zealand. Nice David Bowie quote on the label.

This beer pours a somewhat hazy, medium copper amber colour, with three fat-ass fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some thick streaks of patchy and sudsy lace around the glass as it lazily sinks away.

It smells of pungent caramel/toffee malt, strong and red berry-forward fruity notes, some lesser piney, leafy, and herbal bitterness, and a not so subtle thwack of alcohol ingress up the ol' nostrils. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, biscuity toffee, green strawberries, muddled domestic citrus fruit, further hard to isolate tropicals, and some more understated leafy, grassy, and well-perfumed floral green hoppiness.

The bubbles are certainly active in their swirling and palate-taunting frothiness, the body a solid, heavy-leaning middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a wee airy creaminess pounding at the door simultaneously being shut on it. It finishes well off-dry, the complex fruitiness and now back-burnered malt really still running this little sideshow.

Overall, this is a rather pleasant and quaffable example of large and in charge American brewing prowess (or hubris, your mileage may vary), mixed with the new commercial Imperialist ethos. Procure whatever goodness you can from the rest of the world - in this case, it's hops from a predominately wine-producing region, and get all schwifty, er, sorry, 'vivid' with it. Yeah, I very much liked this one.

 

 

 

 

 

Mellow and modest, quite fruity big brew. Pours a clear orangey amber with some creamy foam in the tall Saint-Martin glass. Aromatics in the mouth but not much in the nose. Almost watery, but then there's the sweetness.

Bitterness is quite restrained. It almost doesn't taste like hops, more of an orange peel and fruit leather concoction. Label says it's brewed with Wai-iti and Kohatu hops from New Zealand. It's like no other DIPA. I keep waiting for something else to happen. The aftertaste is something hot on the tongue and a woody weirdness with some lime peel. From the 22 oz bottle purchased at Bine & Vine in San Diego.