RecreationAle
Terrapin Beer Company

A light gold color with a nice thin white head. The nose is piney and grape fruit. The taste is of grapefruit. This would make for a good warm weather refresher.

 

 

 

 

Pours out of the can a crystal clear dark gold with about an inch of head with a little lacing. Smells faintly like pine and a little earthy. Tastes obviously light, but with pine and citrus notes with floral as well. A thin beer and a nice crack at a lo cal IPA.

 

 

For a low cal IPA this is nice.

 

 

16 oz can poured into my Bass Imperial pint glass. The beer is a clear gold with a fluffy bone white head. It has sticky lacing.

The aroma could be amped up a notch. No off smells, just a bit of cracker and some some faint pine.

The taste is mild, more like a golden ale than an IPA. There is very little bitterness, a bit of sweet malts and maybe a smidgen of hops that add some mild pine notes at the finish.

The mouth is on the thinner side which I kind of expect for a lower calorie IPA.

Maybe this would be a good lawnmower type beer but it is not hitting this spot on an cold and snowy early spring night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

12 oz can from a Terrapin mix pack served in a lager glass.
Pours with a clear amber colored body and a good white head.
Aroma. Earthy and notably less pleasing than the flavor.
The flavor is mild for style and the matching, dry body is a touch thin with moderate carbonation.

 

12 oz. Can Best By 7/2/21

Clear gold, two fingers fine white head, full curtain lacing and surface cap.
Pine, citrus, grapefruit, bell pepper aromas.
Grapefruit, yuzu, white pepper, bread, light mineral flavors.
Good hop bitter zing, light, Dry, good carbonation.
Refreshing, great for summer. Good job on this one by Terrapin.

 

I wanted to not like this wimpy brew, but it does what it is supposed to do, and it may be better than others like it that I did not much like. This is a style I don't ordinarily seek out, because I usually don't drink lots of beers in a session, I like to make them count.

It pours a light golden color with persistent bubbles. The aroma is weak and clean, like the taste. They didn't go overboard on the hops with this - it is nicely balanced. The finish is as clean as they get.

Recommended. If you really wanted a very light ale, this one works.

No great expectations for this, it was just there. Light amber in "color" when two 12 oz. cans are combined into one clear glass liter mug. There's just a little, emphasize, little fizz atop and lacing. It's practically odorless. So far, what it's good at is being translucent. Except for a mildly hoppy finish, this could pass for any mass produced American lager. Nearly body less, unless you think Club Soda has body and close to tasteless, save a little bitter hops. Miller and Buweiser have more body than this. Much like decaffeinated coffee, skim milk and sugar-free cakes, low-cal beer just doesn't work.

 

 

Poured into a tall clear pint glass. Appearance is a pale golden color, with a finger and a half of white fluffy head. Good retention and lacing.

Aroma: dank, bready, and citrusy. Yeast, cracker, biscuit, resin, peach, orange, lemon, tangerine, mango, and floral hops.

Mild hops, cracker, and biscuit. Sweet fruity notes are distant in the flavor. Beer is kinda earthy and herbal. Body is medium-light.

 

 

 

12oz can, tulip, best by 1/8/21. Come on, use a packed on date dude.

Perfectly clear “beer yellow” with just a wisp of head that completely dissipates within seconds.

Peach, a bit dank, very clean malt and yeast. The aroma is a bit like a sour peach ring.

More mild hop flavor, but still hoppy, like resinous fresh hops. Very light, crisp, and refreshing. It’s beer, not just beer-like.

So very light with medium-high carbonation. It works well.

Many of the prior reviews of RecreationAle don't seem to understand the spirit of this style. It is just not the type of craft that you pour in a glass and overanalyze. I understand that it would be nice to have a low calorie, session IPA that is full flavored, but that is not what this beer is trying to be. This is more of a "light" IPA. In hot weather, if you are out on a boat all day, or playing golf, or out grilling with friends (i.e. "recreating"), many IPAs are just too strong and dehydrating. The beauty of this beer is that it is an IPA that you can drink in situations where you normally might not choose an IPA (and makes it, somewhat ironically, a nice choice for IPA lovers...even if it is more lightly flavored). In non recreation settings, this might also be a good choice for people who would normally shy away from an IPA, because it is not overwhelming.

The flavor profile is simple: a little grapefruit spice up front, and a bit of lemon on the back end, with a crisp and clean, almost hydrating taste. The abv is on the low end, which makes sense, but when you are thirsty and take a nice draw from a pint can, it is enough to cut the edge, but not make you stupid. You can drink a few of these and not be drunk or bloated.

For what it is, I actually really like this beer. It is meant to be enjoyed in numbers, cold in a can, from your cooler outside. Enjoy.

DATA: BBD 12/15/2020, 12 oz. aluminum can, served at ~45*F in a pint glass, close to sea level

Look: Dull, pale gold.
Smell: Resiny, sweet, rubber eraser, floral.
Taste: Bread, corn, pine, perfumy, grapefruit.
Feel: Thin, watery--probably the most-lacking aspect.

Overall: I like the bite of the hops: piney resins and grapefruit-y citrus (amarillo?). Goes down crisp. The flavors all seem a bit too muted for my taste, and I think something is lost by going lo cal; however, having made a lo-cal kit brew myself, it's hard to get it right. The burps are admittedly *delicious*, however!

I get it, it's really hard to make a tasty low-calorie/low ABV IPA ... Many have tried, and most have failed ... The nature of an IPA demands full flavor and a bit of heaviness which flies in the face of the theory of this style ... Not a bad attempt, but pretty boring and forgetable

 

 

 

 

12oz can with a 'best by' date

Clear, yellow, head faded almost instantly. Smells like hop seltzer. Pine, armpit, notes of stankity danks. Thin feeling, light in taste as well.

It's hard to rate this.. good for the style but not my favorite

crisp hoppy ale - great for summer time = refreshing