Key Lime Flashback
Forked River Brewing Company
- From:
- Forked River Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.35 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jan 30, 2018
- Added:
- Jan 27, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.35/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.35/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Tallboy can from the brewery; dated Jan 2018 (can't make out the day) and served slightly chilled. Reviewed on my phone.
Pours a cloudy, translucent straw yellow, generating one finger of foamy white head. Its capacity for retention is mediocre, with the entire layer fizzling off into oblivion over the next several minutes; afterwards, the surface has been left largely barren, with only a sickly thin collar remaining. No lacing; nothing too special to see here. Smells of bready malts, gritty wheat husks and extremely subtle notes of citrus - there's hints of lemon zest and key lime, but hints are all that they are. So far, I am pretty underwhelmed.
A decent pale ale, if not an especially memorable one. Gritty, grainy, wheaty pale malts are the name of the game here, providing the bulk of the flavor profile early on - at least, until the (rather restrained) key lime begins to show its face. Subtle hints of lemon rind and grassy hay round off the back end, before an off-dry, slightly gritty aftertaste ties all of it together. Decidedly light in body, with assertive carbonation that prickles and prods the surfaces of the palate continuously. Crisp and refreshing, but that's probably its strongest point - easy to drink, but a pretty dull quaff overall.
Final Grade: 3.35, a B-. Forked River's Key Lime Flashback is honestly a bit of a dud. I mean, I didn't have any trouble finishing off the can, but I can think of no compelling reasons why I would want to buy another. The lime is just too faint to be worth advertising it in the first place - and that's too bad, because more of a citrusy, zesty kick would probably have done this beer a lot of good. Unremarkable, and probably not something I'd recommend to other advocates.
Jan 30, 2018Pours a cloudy, translucent straw yellow, generating one finger of foamy white head. Its capacity for retention is mediocre, with the entire layer fizzling off into oblivion over the next several minutes; afterwards, the surface has been left largely barren, with only a sickly thin collar remaining. No lacing; nothing too special to see here. Smells of bready malts, gritty wheat husks and extremely subtle notes of citrus - there's hints of lemon zest and key lime, but hints are all that they are. So far, I am pretty underwhelmed.
A decent pale ale, if not an especially memorable one. Gritty, grainy, wheaty pale malts are the name of the game here, providing the bulk of the flavor profile early on - at least, until the (rather restrained) key lime begins to show its face. Subtle hints of lemon rind and grassy hay round off the back end, before an off-dry, slightly gritty aftertaste ties all of it together. Decidedly light in body, with assertive carbonation that prickles and prods the surfaces of the palate continuously. Crisp and refreshing, but that's probably its strongest point - easy to drink, but a pretty dull quaff overall.
Final Grade: 3.35, a B-. Forked River's Key Lime Flashback is honestly a bit of a dud. I mean, I didn't have any trouble finishing off the can, but I can think of no compelling reasons why I would want to buy another. The lime is just too faint to be worth advertising it in the first place - and that's too bad, because more of a citrusy, zesty kick would probably have done this beer a lot of good. Unremarkable, and probably not something I'd recommend to other advocates.
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