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Fellowship Ale
Woodstock Inn Brewery
- From:
- Woodstock Inn Brewery
- New Hampshire, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.4%
- Score:
- 77
- Avg:
- 3.17 | pDev: 13.88%
- Reviews:
- 11
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 23, 2016
- Added:
- May 06, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 5
This is a IPA that is orange in color, has floral hop note, and finishes with grape fruit bitterness. Brewed in collaboration with Lincoln-North Woodstock Rotary Club. The Woodstock Inn Brewery, will donate 50 cents of every bottle sold. to the Eradicate Polio Fund and to local Lin-Wood Rotary charities. This is year round brew. Available in 22 ounce Bottles and draft. Please contact the Woodstock Inn Brewery or the Lincoln- North Woodstock Rotary Club for details.
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Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia
3.21/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.21/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
From the 22 oz bottle, it pours amber with a small head, dissipating rapidly. Lacing as you enjoy the beer. Some floral and citrus notes in the nose. Taste is similar, with the famed bitterness at the end. Honestly, it seemed more Pale Ale to me than IPA.
Dec 29, 2015Reviewed by Budlum from Maryland
2.83/5 rDev -10.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.83/5 rDev -10.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
The smells and flavors are off for an American IPA. There is a background hop flavor that is masked by an almost artificial sweetness and abrupt unpleasant bitterness. I'm almost wondering if my bottle was infected. The feel is thin and lacking carbonation.
Sep 24, 2015Reviewed by mrblonde37 from Connecticut
3.27/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.27/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
These beers seem awfully one-note. I was hoping for one of the 4,000 IPAs, but it was not on tap. REluctantly, I settled for this beer. I am still searching for a great beer from this place.
Aug 09, 2015Rated by harsley from Massachusetts
2.55/5 rDev -19.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.55/5 rDev -19.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Not sure if my bottle was bad or what but it was acidic and tart. Some hops underneath but overall undrinkable.
Jul 14, 2015Reviewed by tekstr1der from New Hampshire
3.53/5 rDev +11.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev +11.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Hazy orange-amber pour with thin, clingy white top - nice looker. Aroma of pine pitch - somewhat enticing. Flavor, however is a real bore. An immediate flavor of citrus and funk fade to almost nothing before mid-sip. Slightly harsh linger and tingle on the tongue. Pretty disappointing.
May 08, 2015Rated by brpendergast85 from District of Columbia
2.5/5 rDev -21.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.5/5 rDev -21.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Weak hop profile; malt backbone doesn't do it ay favors either. Replacement level beer.
Mar 09, 2015Reviewed by JAFoley from New Hampshire
3.42/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.42/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
A - Took a fairly vigorous pour to bring up a bubbly white head over a hazy pale amber body. Decent retention and some nice lacing.
S - Citrus grapefruit and lemon grass
T - Really nice dry burst of hops upfront, citrus and pine. Malts are smokey and toasted. But the flavor profiles drop off almost immediately leaving a faint hop aftertaste.
M - Light body with moderate carbonation. Kind of weak and thin.
O - It's really the body that's a let down here. Flavors are nice but there's no heft to support them. Meh...
Jan 15, 2015S - Citrus grapefruit and lemon grass
T - Really nice dry burst of hops upfront, citrus and pine. Malts are smokey and toasted. But the flavor profiles drop off almost immediately leaving a faint hop aftertaste.
M - Light body with moderate carbonation. Kind of weak and thin.
O - It's really the body that's a let down here. Flavors are nice but there's no heft to support them. Meh...
Reviewed by Darkmagus82 from Texas
3.7/5 rDev +16.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.7/5 rDev +16.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Poured from bottle into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a slightly hazy deep amber color with a one finger head of white foam. The head has a good level of retention, slowly fading to leave a fantastic level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the beer is quite heavy of biscuit and bready aroma along with some nice sweeter smells of tangerine and caramel as well a good showing of a grapefruit hop smell. Some yeasty and grainy aromas as well as a little bit of earth and a slightly floral hop smell are there as well, overall producing a rather pleasant aroma.
Taste – The taste begins with a somewhat fruit sweetened biscuit malty taste with the sweeter flavors being of a light fruit nature of orange and apple. At the start there is also some hop flavors of a grapefruit and floral flavor. As the taste advances the fruitiness fades a little bit, but the sweet remains overall moderately strong throughout the taste as some caramel and toffee replace the lost fruit. While the fruit fades a bit the bitterness increases as some grassy and some lighter earthy hop flavors join the profile. A slightly grainy flavor and a little bit of hay taste join the tongue more toward the end of the taste, and with the increase in the hop, the slight decrease in the sweet, and with a very light yeasty taste coming at the very end of the taste, one is left with somewhat sweet, but malty and decently hopped flavor to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is on the average side with in terms of both its thickness as well as in its carbonation. For the standard IPA style both are quite appropriate and nicely compromise the mix of flavors that are present within.
Overall – A fairly nice IPA overall. Some nice sweeter fruit mixed with a good blend of hop and malt. Not bad.
Jul 29, 2014Appearance – The beer pours a slightly hazy deep amber color with a one finger head of white foam. The head has a good level of retention, slowly fading to leave a fantastic level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the beer is quite heavy of biscuit and bready aroma along with some nice sweeter smells of tangerine and caramel as well a good showing of a grapefruit hop smell. Some yeasty and grainy aromas as well as a little bit of earth and a slightly floral hop smell are there as well, overall producing a rather pleasant aroma.
Taste – The taste begins with a somewhat fruit sweetened biscuit malty taste with the sweeter flavors being of a light fruit nature of orange and apple. At the start there is also some hop flavors of a grapefruit and floral flavor. As the taste advances the fruitiness fades a little bit, but the sweet remains overall moderately strong throughout the taste as some caramel and toffee replace the lost fruit. While the fruit fades a bit the bitterness increases as some grassy and some lighter earthy hop flavors join the profile. A slightly grainy flavor and a little bit of hay taste join the tongue more toward the end of the taste, and with the increase in the hop, the slight decrease in the sweet, and with a very light yeasty taste coming at the very end of the taste, one is left with somewhat sweet, but malty and decently hopped flavor to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the beer is on the average side with in terms of both its thickness as well as in its carbonation. For the standard IPA style both are quite appropriate and nicely compromise the mix of flavors that are present within.
Overall – A fairly nice IPA overall. Some nice sweeter fruit mixed with a good blend of hop and malt. Not bad.
Fellowship Ale from Woodstock Inn Brewery
Beer rating:
77 out of
100 with
30 ratings
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