Kiwi Kick Punch
Free Will Brewing Co.
- From:
- Free Will Brewing Co.
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 12.6%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 4.9%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 14, 2019
- Added:
- Nov 16, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Triple IPA with kiwi, vanilla, and milk sugar. This beer has notes of kiwi tropical tartness, followed up with a hop punch to the palate that highlights notes of honeydew melon, mango, and strawberry, with a taste bud cradling tinge of sweet vanilla. Dry hopped with El Dorado and Lemondrop.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by EMV from Pennsylvania
4.1/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.1/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Poured from a tallboy can into a Dogfish Head tulip
L: Hazed medium golden pour. 2 fingers of fizzy white head... solid ring of lacing.
S: Kiwi and lime... tart and fruity.
T/F: Almost salty up front... tart with tropical fruit. Kiwi and lime... grapefruit, melon, and honey. Modest bitterness and more tartness and lemon. Soapy carbonation... medium in body... boozy. Lingering lemon rind at the finish.
O: This is a bizarre beer.... and drinks like a tropical soured IPA, with the IPA part way in the background. Majorly boozy and almost salty like a gose. It tastes good... but I'm still not really sure what the hell it is.
Feb 14, 2019L: Hazed medium golden pour. 2 fingers of fizzy white head... solid ring of lacing.
S: Kiwi and lime... tart and fruity.
T/F: Almost salty up front... tart with tropical fruit. Kiwi and lime... grapefruit, melon, and honey. Modest bitterness and more tartness and lemon. Soapy carbonation... medium in body... boozy. Lingering lemon rind at the finish.
O: This is a bizarre beer.... and drinks like a tropical soured IPA, with the IPA part way in the background. Majorly boozy and almost salty like a gose. It tastes good... but I'm still not really sure what the hell it is.
Reviewed by SawDog505 from New Hampshire
3.98/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
A huge thanks @jzeilinger for this TIPA brewed with Kiwi, Vanilla, and Milk Sugar. Poured into a 13oz Free Will glass canned on 11/02/18. Pours a fairly hazy orange with a solid finger plus sticky white head that leaves thin webby lace behind as it slowly settles. 4.25
Smell is kiwi, lemon, tangerine, and grapefruit rind. Not a kiwi fan or it would have scored higher. 3.75
Taste follows kiwi upfront, with tangerine, lemon, pineapple, and grapefruit I am actually able to look past the kiwi almost and enjoy the other stuff. 4
Mouthfeel is pretty darn full, fairly soft on the palate but not flat at all, a touch sticky but not dry, and at 12.6% ABV extremely approachable. 4.25
Overall for a guy who doesn’t love kiwi, I am digging this TIPA. The alcohol is hidden very well and I love the full body. 4
Jan 01, 2019Smell is kiwi, lemon, tangerine, and grapefruit rind. Not a kiwi fan or it would have scored higher. 3.75
Taste follows kiwi upfront, with tangerine, lemon, pineapple, and grapefruit I am actually able to look past the kiwi almost and enjoy the other stuff. 4
Mouthfeel is pretty darn full, fairly soft on the palate but not flat at all, a touch sticky but not dry, and at 12.6% ABV extremely approachable. 4.25
Overall for a guy who doesn’t love kiwi, I am digging this TIPA. The alcohol is hidden very well and I love the full body. 4
Reviewed by jzeilinger from Pennsylvania
3.9/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Canned on 11-2-18.
A - Opaque pink/dark orange color with thin white lacing.
S - Intense tangy kiwi aroma with lactose.
T - Taste follows the nose. Kiwi is tangy with some acidity the lactose/milk sugar is underlying to offset the citrus, some light peppery spice. At 12.6%, the ABV is somewhat detectable but never gets in the way. Gets a little sugary sweet.
M - Heavy and full bodied with a soft texture and a wet finish. This beer makes your mouth salivate like crazy.
O - This is definitely a unique one. Would I buy it again? Probably not.
Nov 17, 2018A - Opaque pink/dark orange color with thin white lacing.
S - Intense tangy kiwi aroma with lactose.
T - Taste follows the nose. Kiwi is tangy with some acidity the lactose/milk sugar is underlying to offset the citrus, some light peppery spice. At 12.6%, the ABV is somewhat detectable but never gets in the way. Gets a little sugary sweet.
M - Heavy and full bodied with a soft texture and a wet finish. This beer makes your mouth salivate like crazy.
O - This is definitely a unique one. Would I buy it again? Probably not.
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