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Green Flash Super Freak
Green Flash Brewing Co.
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- From:
- Green Flash Brewing Co.
- California, United States
- Style:
- Belgian IPA
- ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- 83
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 17.96%
- Reviews:
- 10
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 23, 2015
- Added:
- Jul 21, 2008
- Wants:
- 6
- Gots:
- 1
No description / notes.
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Ratings by lanceka:
Reviewed by lanceka from California
4.32/5 rDev +19.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
4.32/5 rDev +19.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
Tasted at Chuck-a-Palooza @ Stone World Bistro & Gardens, San Diego Beer Week '10.
At the bottom end of the straw spectrum, just delving into copper...slightly lighter than the current batch of Le Freak.
Fantastically complex on the nose and the palate. Up front on the aroma is horseblanket and hay, with spicy yeast phenolics following. If I didn't know better, I'd swear I can still smell a little dry-hop aroma, but that's unlikely in a beer this old. Picking apart the brett-infuenced aroma is always tough, but I gotta go with a little leather, too.
The flavor rushes in with the typical 'funky' sour flavors...barnyardy, earthy...not much in the way of lactic tartness, certainly no acetic flavors that I can taste. The brett funk provides a nice drying balance to the malt character for the first couple seconds, then there's just a touch of dried fruit sweetness before the hop bitterness takes over, leaving a lingering interplay of hop astringency and aged-chevre bitterness that might be off-putting to sour beer neophytes. Alcohol was quite subdued...definitely have to disagree with people who claim it's too hot.
[rant]
Drinkability is certainly low, as some reviewers have noted...but comon, people, this is a brett sour. Since when are they supposed to be quaffable?! Also, saying you don't like this beer because it doesn't taste like Le Freak is just inane. Chuck Silva certainly wasn't billing this as a belgian IPA, as it most certainly is not. Too bad beer advocate doesn't seem to know that. It's much closer to Orval than, say, Houblon Chouffe or Urthel Hop-It. Most of the negative reviews on here seem to be by people who don't get what makes this beer interesting and novel. It's not supposed to taste like Le Freak, and it's not supposed to taste like Rodenbach Grand Cru. sheesh.
[/rant]
Overall a supremely interesting, complex entry into the very limited (but burgeoning) world of SoCal sours.
Nov 09, 2010At the bottom end of the straw spectrum, just delving into copper...slightly lighter than the current batch of Le Freak.
Fantastically complex on the nose and the palate. Up front on the aroma is horseblanket and hay, with spicy yeast phenolics following. If I didn't know better, I'd swear I can still smell a little dry-hop aroma, but that's unlikely in a beer this old. Picking apart the brett-infuenced aroma is always tough, but I gotta go with a little leather, too.
The flavor rushes in with the typical 'funky' sour flavors...barnyardy, earthy...not much in the way of lactic tartness, certainly no acetic flavors that I can taste. The brett funk provides a nice drying balance to the malt character for the first couple seconds, then there's just a touch of dried fruit sweetness before the hop bitterness takes over, leaving a lingering interplay of hop astringency and aged-chevre bitterness that might be off-putting to sour beer neophytes. Alcohol was quite subdued...definitely have to disagree with people who claim it's too hot.
[rant]
Drinkability is certainly low, as some reviewers have noted...but comon, people, this is a brett sour. Since when are they supposed to be quaffable?! Also, saying you don't like this beer because it doesn't taste like Le Freak is just inane. Chuck Silva certainly wasn't billing this as a belgian IPA, as it most certainly is not. Too bad beer advocate doesn't seem to know that. It's much closer to Orval than, say, Houblon Chouffe or Urthel Hop-It. Most of the negative reviews on here seem to be by people who don't get what makes this beer interesting and novel. It's not supposed to taste like Le Freak, and it's not supposed to taste like Rodenbach Grand Cru. sheesh.
[/rant]
Overall a supremely interesting, complex entry into the very limited (but burgeoning) world of SoCal sours.
More User Ratings:
Rated by FondueVoodoo from Canada (BC)
4.08/5 rDev +12.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.08/5 rDev +12.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
On tap at Belmont Station
May 23, 2015Rated by BigGingDrinker from North Carolina
2.75/5 rDev -24%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.75/5 rDev -24%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
A sour with some bourbon notes. I'm not a fan of the combo
Jan 26, 2015
Green Flash Super Freak from Green Flash Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
83 out of
100 with
35 ratings
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