Grapesicle
Free Will Brewing Co.
- From:
- Free Will Brewing Co.
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.39 | pDev: 1.77%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 21, 2019
- Added:
- Dec 05, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
3.34/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.34/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Welcome to Happy I Am Drinking New Beer of My Own Free Will This Sunday (Week 765)! It is yet one more ocCANsion for me to further The CANQuest (tm) & I am happy to have yinz along for the ride.
From the CAN: "Pastel India Pale Ale with oats, milk sugar, vanilla, muscat grapes, and merlot grapes";
"Brewed in collaboration with Stone & Key Cellars"; "IBU - n/a[,] °P - 17.6[,] SRM - n/a"; "Liquid & Friends First".
I have to admit, I had NO idea as to what to expect when Crack!ing open the vent on this one. Pastel?!? Was it going to be purple-hued? I proceeded without a care inna world, beginning with a slow, gentle C-Line Glug. It seemed like a standard NEIPA so I CANtinued. It formed just under two fingers of foamy, soapy, rocky, tawny head with decent retention. Color was a gently-hazy Golden-Amber (SRM = > 5, < 7). Nose had the sweetness of lactose (milk sugar) & vanilla, reinforcing my belief that it was a NEIPA. Beyond that, though, it had a vinousness that I recognized from years of assisting my maternal uncle as a home vintner. Today, I eschew wine, but I CAN recognize grapes when I smell them. Any hops? Mouthfeel was medium, but very slick/creamy with the addition of lactose. The taste was not really IPA-like of any variation. It was def not an AIPA, but nor was it a NEIPA. It was an odd little duck, kind of like Malt Duck, something that I have not had in years. If the addition of wine grapes to mead creates Melomel, then this was like a Braggot/Melomel IPA, sans honey. CANfused? My palate certainly was! There were just so many CANflicting flavors in evidence for me to be able to pin anything down. I liked that all of the listed ingredients were discernible, but what a pretzel-twisted mélange of flavors! Phew. Finish was semi-dry, very vinous & quite the odd little drink. Yes, by definition it as beer, but stylistically, it was undefinable. YMMV.
Oct 21, 2019From the CAN: "Pastel India Pale Ale with oats, milk sugar, vanilla, muscat grapes, and merlot grapes";
"Brewed in collaboration with Stone & Key Cellars"; "IBU - n/a[,] °P - 17.6[,] SRM - n/a"; "Liquid & Friends First".
I have to admit, I had NO idea as to what to expect when Crack!ing open the vent on this one. Pastel?!? Was it going to be purple-hued? I proceeded without a care inna world, beginning with a slow, gentle C-Line Glug. It seemed like a standard NEIPA so I CANtinued. It formed just under two fingers of foamy, soapy, rocky, tawny head with decent retention. Color was a gently-hazy Golden-Amber (SRM = > 5, < 7). Nose had the sweetness of lactose (milk sugar) & vanilla, reinforcing my belief that it was a NEIPA. Beyond that, though, it had a vinousness that I recognized from years of assisting my maternal uncle as a home vintner. Today, I eschew wine, but I CAN recognize grapes when I smell them. Any hops? Mouthfeel was medium, but very slick/creamy with the addition of lactose. The taste was not really IPA-like of any variation. It was def not an AIPA, but nor was it a NEIPA. It was an odd little duck, kind of like Malt Duck, something that I have not had in years. If the addition of wine grapes to mead creates Melomel, then this was like a Braggot/Melomel IPA, sans honey. CANfused? My palate certainly was! There were just so many CANflicting flavors in evidence for me to be able to pin anything down. I liked that all of the listed ingredients were discernible, but what a pretzel-twisted mélange of flavors! Phew. Finish was semi-dry, very vinous & quite the odd little drink. Yes, by definition it as beer, but stylistically, it was undefinable. YMMV.
Reviewed by stakem from Pennsylvania
3.45/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.45/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A pounder can into tulip appears hazy orange white head soapy lace.
An aroma of dusty hops and fruity to vinous character.
It tastes fruity and vinous with a dusty hop bite but there is a sugary sweetness to the finish with grassy and herbal hops.
Its medium in body with modest carbonation. Certainly a different kinda brew but im not the biggest fan of the lingering sweetness.
Dec 05, 2018An aroma of dusty hops and fruity to vinous character.
It tastes fruity and vinous with a dusty hop bite but there is a sugary sweetness to the finish with grassy and herbal hops.
Its medium in body with modest carbonation. Certainly a different kinda brew but im not the biggest fan of the lingering sweetness.
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