Freakshow Crush Hazy IPA
Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery

 

 

 

 

 

Refusing to follow the roll the can directions written on the label, the pale orange body has a moderately distributed haze under a thick but short white foam head leaving thick spongy chunks clinging to the glass.

Smell is old musty rug and mild cat piss with a little mildew and damp wood.

Taste adds a little grapefruit rind and evergreen cologne with a touch of graham malt, but overall it's just terrible.

The smooth medium round body has a light carbonation that finishes just dry.

Got this one from the Mitra here in Maarssen, The Netherlands. What they hell, you say? Exactly.

From a 473ml can into a pint glass
Hazy IPA

APPEARANCE: Pours a 1+ finger, medium looking, foamy white head with decent retention. A hazy gamboge orange with higher levels of carbonation evident. Head recedes to a foamy cap and then a slight wisp that clings to the glass. A splotchy wisp remains leaving solid lacing down the glass as it empties. Good looking.

SMELL: Caramel malts, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, with honey and some light citrus notes on the nose.

TASTE: Caramel malts, honey, melon flavors and some bubble gum at the swallow. Medium finish of caramel and toffee sweetness, honey flavors, melon and cantaloupe, with light citrus lemon notes and some minor bitterness lingers on the palate.

PALATE: Medium body and medium carbonation. Creamy enough on the palate, a little foamy perhaps, goes down smooth and finishes a touch dry. Some light bitterness lingers.

OVERALL: Well, having a Canadian brewed IPA in Holland is worth the price of admission. It’s Canadian at heart, with a more malt forward, caramel profile than many of the best IPAs out there. I have no idea how fresh this can is, but it doesn’t come across as anything less fresh than you’d get at the LCBO on a normal Saturday morning. Solid brew, but nothing freakish. The experience was worth the €5 it cost. Yes, that’s a euro sign. What’s that, like $7 or something? Pretend it’s at a ball game I say. Oh, how I miss my ball games...

 

 

 

I bought can at lcbo poured a nice 2 finger white head very hazy and orange looking .
smell was very good like fruits .
taste was like grapefruit and melon and some honey.
a little citrus taste also .
overall I liked this beer and it was very enjoyable to drink.
cheers

I like the company logo & the can art, great use of color. The pour is a hazy golden yellow. The taste is honeydew melon, white grape, & lemon zest. This was a solid NE IPA from one of the best Canadian breweries out there. Cheers! B

 

 

Look: Hazy pale gold, three huge finger frothy white head. The retention on the head is amazing. It goes on forever.

Smell: Light floral notes, grapefruit and lemon grass. Delicate is the adjective that comes to mind

Taste: Grapefruit and citrus. Very moderate on the hops.

Feel: Plays on the middle and back of my tastebuds, Slightly chalky or gritty.

I really appreciated this beer, an overly hopped beer is going to make me regret my choice 10 minutes after I finish when the acid reflux kicks in. No issue with this beer at all. A-

 

473ml can - no info listed here, and the label is just too fucking busy to hold my attention, as such.

This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random splotchy and sudsy lace around the glass as it evenly precipitates.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, mixed domestic citrus fruit, some further pineapple, kiwi, and kumquat (yeah, you know what I'm getting at) fruitiness, a damp minerality, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hoppiness. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, some orange, tangerine, and lemon citrus zest, more flinty stoniness, and further leafy, musty, and grassy verdant hop bitters.

The carbonation is average in its palate-mollifying frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, with nothing really making for a big ol' fuss at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the hops starting to make for that still sexy Brut thing, or something.

Overall - yep, this is certainly an enjoyable enough offering, on a evening where, even given all the other crazy-ass things going on, the mother of my grade-school son still manages to out-crazy it all. Thank the flying spaghetti monster in the sky for beer, I guess. And, yeah, I should have used 'freakshow' more here, but, meh.

 

Obviously pours hazy yellow colour with a bubbly head that seems to last a while. The taste is typical NEIPA, bitter and dry, but a bit metallic to my palate. Not fantastic, but not bad
February 17 2020

I got a can of this beer from a beer store in Sault Ste Marie whilst there for my son's hockey tournament. It poured a hazy orangish with white head that is leaving some lace. The scent had dank fruit notes. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with dank fruit stary and bitter citrus finish. The mouthfeel was lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall its a good beer.