20th Anniversary Imperial IPA
Coronado Brewing Company

 

Bottled 6/9/16; drank 7/24/16 @ the Yarchives.

Cloudy orange appearance.

A rough pour yielded a nice off-white head; strong lace.

Grapefruit, peach & booze heat notes in the nose.

Medium mouthfeel.

Grapefruit & peach flavors up front; booze heat notes on the finish.

Fairly simple & drinkable, but the sweetness & alcohol heat are not idea.

 

 

22 oz bottle. Pours clear copper gold with a big creamy off white head that retains well and laces the glass.

The aroma is sweet bready honey malt with light floral piney hops.

The flavor is very sweet honey bready malt with some fruit and big slightly harsh spicy floral hop finish. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with smooth carbonation.

Overall, it's a bit too sweet with reserved hop flavors.

Aroma is fruit/light citrus, malts and spicy/alcohol. The flavor is grapefruit, caramel malts, very slightly nutty and a mix of spicy, bitter and big alcohol/warming in the finish.

Tasted in a Spiegelau IPA glass from a 12 oz bottle on January 16, 2017. Look is orangish gold with a thick white head and sticky lacing. Smell and taste is citrus, floral and pine. Feel is medium in body with a clean crisp finish.

Drinked one week a go, bottle... look: clear amber not so clear with a white, fine and quite persistent head... aromas: tropical fruit, resin, pine, citrus... mouth: nice body, rich of malt and fruit flavor mixed with hops, very well balanced... dry and clean drink, great beer although it looks more like an IPA that a DIPA

Good DIPA. Would have been even better if I had drank it a few months earlier!!!!! 12 oz bottle poured into a pint glass. Pours a hazy amber/yellow color with a medium size foamy white head. Good head retention and thick bands of foamy white lacing. Aroma and flavor are mostly citrus hops with a little pine hops flavor, Caramel malt balances out the hops flavor and aroma. I'm sure the hops profile would be even sharper and more bitter if the beer was fresh. Mouthfeel is crisp with a good amount of bitterness. Very enjoyable but probably sampled a few months later than the ideal.

 

 

 

Pours a three finger white head that fades slowly leaving a good lace. Almost clear light amber color. Light-medium carbonation and medium bodied. Grapefruit hop nose and flavor is a nice balance of grapefruit hops and caramel malt. Higher ABV is hidden. $3.70 for a 12oz bottle from Colonial Spirits Acton, Ma.

 

 

Boozy

22oz bottle - 20 years, eh? Not yet legal to drink in those United States!

This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with one fat finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random eroding limestone cliff lace around the glass as things quickly sink away.

It smells of dank pine resin, some edgy orange, white grapefruit, and melon fruitiness, crackery and grainy caramel malt, a bit of scallion acerbity, and further leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, dusty chalk, some muddled citrus and tropical fruitiness, fading green onion notes, and more leafy, earthy, and somewhat perfumed floral hoppiness.

The bubbles are fairly benign in their quotidian frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, as those piney and citrusy hops do well enough to keep their hands inside of the windows at all times. It finishes off-dry, the base malt all grumpy about having to continually rein in all those rampaging hops.

Overall, this a fairly robust and rather enjoyable big IPA - the various specified and unspecified hops creating a miasma of fruity, vegetal, floral, and generally bitter flavours to lay atop a basic bitch maltiness. Easy enough to drink, especially given the near-invisible full 10 points of the ol' wowee sauce. Good stuff.