Stranger In A Strange Land
Fremont Brewing Company

Beautiful can. This beer falls between a malty double IPA and a Hazy new England style. Original, but I would have preferred leaning further towards one of those styles. They didn't mix. Still a yummy brew from the masters of Fremont.

Aroma is full of melon and pine.
Flavors start with tropical fruit and melon, with a nice bitter piney finish.
This beer goes down fluffy, soft and smooth. One of my favorite hazy's of recent.

 

 

Very cloudy yellowish brew with plenty of foam in the New Belgium snifter. Pleasing sudsy mouthfeel with a fruity, tangy flavor. Fragrant with pine and pineapple. Blackberry and lime peel flavors. Sensational aromatics.

Delicious sweet stuff. This has less murk and more malty pleasure. Gets my vote for the Haze of the Year. Count on Fremont to do the best job with the style. From the 16 oz can purchased at Elizabeth Station. Great label, it would make a great poster.

 

 

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a moderately hazy, medium golden amber with a one finger white head with good retention and lacing. Aroma of citrus and tropical fruit hops, pale malt, pineapple, mango, orange and light lemon and dankness. Flavor is mildly caramel malt, citrus and tropical fruit hops, orange, grapefruit, diffuse mixed tropical fruit and a hint of light stone fruit. Finishes with moderate citrus rind and dank hops with fleeting fruit esters. Medium bodied with light creaminess. Starts out with a classic, well hazy hopped NE style IPA, but develops some nice bitterness in the finish, which was what I was hoping for. Fruit flavors are well mixed with not much individual fruit definition, but the citrus / tropical balance was nice, leaning somewhat to citrus. This was one of the hazies that I liked, glad I tried it.

2018-11-22
16oz can served in a pint glass. Packaged 10/29/18.

Pours whitish-yellow, hazy, with a medium sized head and plenty of carbonation. Smell is pineapple milkshake and hops.

Taste is nicely balanced between tropical juiciness and piney bitterness.

Mouthfeel is light, smooth, almost airy. This is a quite good beer.

From a crowler dated 11/3 picked up at the brewery. Wish I had gotten my hands on cans... that label is dope! ha

Pour is a hazy pale yellow. Like spun honey. No head other than a thin ring and some faint swirls across the top.

Nose is fresh tropical fruits and citrus... kumquat and star fruit, some faint black pepper, a hint of the lighter stone fruits over light crackery and lightly wheaty malts.

Flavour has shadows of those notes on the nose but leads with a recessed hop character that has some bright but acid-bitter tropical fruits... maybe some kiwi and then back to the kumquat and pepper and finishes with an intense pithy bitterness.
Body is on the lighter side of medium and is silky smoothe... almost bordering on slimy? But not like gross slimy... like so smooth and liquid it's slick? Slick is better than slimy. Bitter finish carries through the finish and defines the rest in an old school manner.

 

 

On tap at the brewery. For IBU the description says: ACT (A Crap Ton)! Pours cloudy white gold - white grapefruit with head and lace. Aroma of citrus, dry herbs, pepper, grains. Significant carbonation and mouthfeel. Flavors of unsweetened white grapefruit juice, pepper, grains, pale malt, peach concentrate, straw hops, minerals. Overall rich, challenging but tasty for an extreme hop head to take home a growler for further investigation!