Fresh Hop Stowaway (2025)
Old Schoolhouse Brewery

2025-10-30
16oz can served in a curvy Monhegan pint glass. Can is not dated, as far as I know.

Pours a slightly hazy golden color with about a maybe 0.5 centimeter dense creamy head. Smell is suuuper dank. Dense greens and earthy flora. Lemon rind and citrus blossoms.

Taste is harder toward the bitter greens direction, a little bit of an astringence. Dankness is still quite present, though maybe not quite as visceral as the nose. Lemon rind is quite noticeable.

Mouthfeel is light and clean, dry texture. Nice beer.

Poured from a 16 ounce undated can into a tulip glass at 52 degrees.

Look- Straw, very hazy, white frothy head, slightly above average head retention, above average lacing.

Smell- Clementine, pine resin, pith, floral, medium strength of scent.

Taste- Clementine, moderately pithy, mildly astringent, slight pine, between medium and high strength of flavor.

Feel- Medium body, average carbonation, mildly prickly, moderately bitter, highly creamy, mildly astringent, mildly mouth warming, moderately dry finish.

Overall- Straw colored and hazy with above average head retention and lacing. The bouquet was a nice mix of clementine, pine resin, pith and floral notes. The flavor was slightly too dominated by an astringent/pithy character, but not to the point of it being unpleasant. The same attributes detracted from mouthfeel with the addition of a finish that was slightly too dry. This beer was solid, but needed slightly less fresh hop character to balance everything out.