Green Flash Hop Head Red - Red India Pale Ale - Green Flash Brewing Co.

rdilauro

Connecticut

4/5  rDev +3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Pours a rusty amber color with a pretty large beige head.
When my nose is inside the glass, I pick up some pretty potent hops and citrus along with a vanilla pear scent.

I was expecting something different with the taste. There was a lot of hops which I've come to expect from Green Flash, but the taste was a bit unbalanced. There hoppy bitterness was just a little much.

The aroma and bouquet for this one is much nicer than the actual taste

Serving type: bottle

08-09-2012 02:51:09 | More by rdilauro

Carpentiere

New Hampshire

2.5/5  rDev -35.6%

06-19-2013 20:00:25 | More by Carpentiere

UncleBuccs

Arizona

3.5/5  rDev -9.8%

06-19-2013 03:59:38 | More by UncleBuccs

meangreenc

California

4/5  rDev +3.1%

06-19-2013 02:49:58 | More by meangreenc

ummswimmin

New Jersey

3.75/5  rDev -3.4%

06-19-2013 01:48:57 | More by ummswimmin

themegamancave

Virginia

4.25/5  rDev +9.5%

06-18-2013 23:09:36 | More by themegamancave

BeerMeInStl

Missouri

3.25/5  rDev -16.2%

06-18-2013 02:50:05 | More by BeerMeInStl

terence

California

3/5  rDev -22.7%

06-17-2013 12:34:51 | More by terence

MallyOMight

Michigan

3.75/5  rDev -3.4%

06-17-2013 01:41:34 | More by MallyOMight

s35keith

Massachusetts

3.75/5  rDev -3.4%

06-17-2013 01:40:37 | More by s35keith

adityashekhar

India

3.75/5  rDev -3.4%

06-16-2013 14:21:39 | More by adityashekhar

gritz147

Louisiana

3.75/5  rDev -3.4%

06-15-2013 03:00:24 | More by gritz147

allenc85

Alabama

4/5  rDev +3.1%

06-14-2013 04:00:22 | More by allenc85

Spaz7

California

4.25/5  rDev +9.5%

06-12-2013 20:15:02 | More by Spaz7

SoCalBeerIdiot

California

3.5/5  rDev -9.8%

06-12-2013 18:56:47 | More by SoCalBeerIdiot

InspectorBob

New Jersey

4/5  rDev +3.1%

06-12-2013 18:01:36 | More by InspectorBob

jwps214

Massachusetts

3.75/5  rDev -3.4%

06-12-2013 03:41:37 | More by jwps214

tarheels4life23

North Carolina

3.25/5  rDev -16.2%

06-10-2013 16:13:10 | More by tarheels4life23

NateMac13

Illinois

3.75/5  rDev -3.4%

06-09-2013 21:46:25 | More by NateMac13

Buff0910

Alabama

4.25/5  rDev +9.5%

06-09-2013 21:20:21 | More by Buff0910

wl0307

United Kingdom (England)

4.1/5  rDev +5.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

Coming in a short 355ml brown bottle, no freshness info. is provided on the beer label; served mildly chilled in a short-stemmed goblet. The beer label states this is a “Red India Pale Ale” and “Amarillo Dry Hopped”. Tasted alongside Brewdog 10 Heads High (BD), another take on the "Red India Pale Ale" style.

Appearance: lightly translucent, bright copper in colour, coming with a thick light-beige froth settling to a thin sheet to last, leaving tight layers of rim along the way; the carbonation comes rather light, ejecting large bubbles sporadically.
Smell: barley-candy-ish malty and sour-sweet jammy fruity at the same time, suggesting prune jam, figs, caramel malts, smelling very much in my experience like a barleywine, due to the intensity and density of amber, caramel and/or crystal malts; a good swirl would bring up notes of lychees, perfumy esters, fresh oily resinous flowers, and aromatic pine. Rich, aromatic, resinous, interestingly structured, providing different enjoyment of malt complexity and resinous hops on two layers, “sniff by sniff”, “swirl by swirl”.
Taste: semi-sweet foretaste, showing lots of sweetened black tea, lychee skins, grapefruit peels, fat prunes, etc., quite thin-structured sweet AND dry-ish as of caramel-glazed liquorice plus roast malts, leaving a nice herbal-sweet aftertaste with more liquorice, prunes, bitter grapefruit and lychee-shell like aroma to linger at the back of the palate. Overall, it is well-balanced, mildly sweeter at first, but the moderate level of tannic, yeasty bitterness outweighs the other elements to render a deliciously resinous, lingeringly bitter and satisfyingly chewy finish.
Mouthfeel & Overall: medium-bodied, very attenuated on the carbonation yet not overly flat, this “Red India Pale Ale” tastes like a numbed-down version of a barleywine using predominant American piney hops and of course dry-hopped to add more depth of bitterness and resins to the overall flavour profile. Overall, it is far more estery than BD and the palate hints at a possible close-to-expiry-date freshness for this bottle, but still I find it an extremely enjoyable experience with this beer style with an ironic name, Red India Pale Ale…

Serving type: bottle

06-09-2013 21:17:11 | More by wl0307

dominic4beer

California

4/5  rDev +3.1%

06-09-2013 06:59:28 | More by dominic4beer

pottergator

New York

3.75/5  rDev -3.4%

06-09-2013 05:12:14 | More by pottergator

philaduffia

New York

4/5  rDev +3.1%

06-09-2013 04:47:28 | More by philaduffia

BrockLanders

Oklahoma

3.75/5  rDev -3.4%

06-08-2013 20:49:22 | More by BrockLanders