Anderson Valley 20th Anniversary Imperial IPA

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Strong aroma is quite hoppy with a firm grapefruit note and a yeasty hint. It pours a clear orange-amber with a thick, fluffy and rather persistent ivory head that leaves patchy lacing. Flavor is seriously hoppy, not quite like drinking a liquid pine tree, but very satisfyingly hoppy, subtly bitter, with notes of grapefruit and Mandarin orange and a hint of yeast. Smooth, full-bodied flavor has a good amount of fizz and leaves behind a persistent hoppy tingle. Hop to your favorite beer store for this one if you like IPAs!

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

A cloudy orange colored beer with a big foamy textured, white head that dissapates slowly. Thick splotches of film and ringlet left behind. Oranges in the nose. In your face citric resins on the tongue. Medium bodied and a thirst quencher.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Single from a local shop. Reddish copper body with a large head and rings of lacing. Hops and caramel are prevalent and seem in decent balance with one another. Biscuits, pine, citrus, and caramel make for a solid and fairly standard IIPA.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

From Firefly (Cambie). Poured a very orange body, some haze, under acreamy white head. Aroma was very enticing, lots of hop, with pine notes and a hint of citrus. Flavour was very much the same, thoroughly enjoyable, with a smooth, almost creamy mouthfeel. Bitter at the finish, too.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Whats going on here? Tasted directly beside Hop Ottin. This is a bad version of the hop otting. Where Hop Ottin is exciting, and jumping all around the palate taking unepxected turns. This is the toned down version of the same flavours. Carmel,, floral, pine, freshish hops. Wet moss, e3verything the hop ottin is, just less, complex, less exciting and less orangy. Almost as if it was bottle aged. Intense but plain. I want to give it higher numbers than its gets... but I dont think I can find a way to do it, this might even be out of proportion.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

12 oz bottle. Pours a hazy copper gold with a medium frothy white head that retains fairly well and laces the glass.

The aroma is bready malts, tropical fruits and resiny, piney, grassy, slightly metallic hops.

The flavor is sweet caramel/crystal malts and tropical fruits with a decent sized piney, resiney hop bitterness that has a little residual sugar in the finish. The alcohol is warming. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with smooth carbonation.

Overall, it's a solid DIPA. It's a bit on the sweet side, but I enjoyed drinking it.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Moved this review after I retardedly created another listing for it. My fellow local beer pal brought this over amidst a long night of beer tasting. Pours a solid copper color, with minimal head. We both agreed that there was something fruity, almost melony in the taste. We figured this must be from the wide variety of hops used; something must have created a combination of flavors that added this nuance. Finishes clean, and feels medium-bodied. Another solid beer from AV.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Available in Toronto, this beer poured a cloudy orange-gold colour with a huge light tan head, bubbly. Caramel malt, pine, and citrus provide much of the aroma while the flavour was very citrusy with a nice malt balance. An excellent beer.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

May 20, 2010
Beerbistro, The (Toronto, Ontario, Canada – 18 King Street East)
650 ml bottle
8.70% ABV
$24.50
The beer poured a slightly hazy orange-gold with a very thin light tan head. The aroma is sweet malt, some graininess, pine, and citrusy hops. The mouthfeel was medium bodied with medium carbonation. The flavour was uberhopped. Lots of grapefruit hoppiness with some malt. A very good beer, but not the best IIPA I've had.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours brightly burnt copper, great clear clarity, aroma nicely hop like, flavor is strong bitter hop, with long lasting bitter overtones. A nice brew will purchase again