Peel Your Face: Grapefruit IPA
Blackberry Farm Brewery
- From:
- Blackberry Farm Brewery
- Tennessee, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.95 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 16, 2019
- Added:
- Oct 16, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Flew the Coop Series
Installment: 1-V2
These small batch limited offerings provide a playground for our brewers and drinkers to experience some new flavors, ingredients, processes and styles. We enjoy our discipline inside the walls of our traditional brewing approach, but sometimes it's fun to throw caution to the wind and Fly the Coop.
Installment: 1-V2
These small batch limited offerings provide a playground for our brewers and drinkers to experience some new flavors, ingredients, processes and styles. We enjoy our discipline inside the walls of our traditional brewing approach, but sometimes it's fun to throw caution to the wind and Fly the Coop.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by AmeriCanadian from Tennessee
3.95/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.95/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Malt-heavy, light brownish-gold body, quite but not totally clear, with wonderful cascading carbonation. Soft, fluffy off-white head of tiny, compact bubbles. Weak head retention but solid soapy lacing.
Aroma profile is Belgian pale ale all the way, which fits with Blackberry Farm's roots. Malty, yeasty, with a strong estery note. A little horsey, very grassy, with trace amounts of grapefruit peel and banana. Smells a touch sweet. Given the "outside the BFB box" description from the can and the featured grapefruit, I expected something a little more West Coast IPA-ish. But what it is is very well put together and clean.
Taste follows with a strong balance between malts and hops, lots of grassiness, and some spicey, bready notes. But the pithy grapefruit really comes to the forefront, providing an assertive but clean bitterness that finishes very dry. Almost zero residual sweetness of other fruit notes. Quite herbal with nice mineral qualities. I'm not a huge Belgian beer drinker, so the banana and strong yeast notes are distracting and not additive. Yet I still find this beer incredibly drinkable and tasty and am really, really liking the grapefruit juice.
Feel is fantastic. Extremely soft and silky, perfectly carbonated, with the lasting foam cap providing an added creaminess to an otherwise light-medium body. This one goes down extremely smooth, with zero heat or booziness but a nice parting shot of grapefruit pith before drying out completely.
I always expect well made beers from Blackberry Farm, and this one is no exception. Perhaps it should be categorized as something else, given the Belgian influences, but I went off the can description. Regardless, this one is rock solid. Not sure whether this will be produced again or is a complete one-off, but I'll certainly enjoy the 4-pack I bought as a great pace-changer in our hazy IPA world.
Oct 16, 2019Aroma profile is Belgian pale ale all the way, which fits with Blackberry Farm's roots. Malty, yeasty, with a strong estery note. A little horsey, very grassy, with trace amounts of grapefruit peel and banana. Smells a touch sweet. Given the "outside the BFB box" description from the can and the featured grapefruit, I expected something a little more West Coast IPA-ish. But what it is is very well put together and clean.
Taste follows with a strong balance between malts and hops, lots of grassiness, and some spicey, bready notes. But the pithy grapefruit really comes to the forefront, providing an assertive but clean bitterness that finishes very dry. Almost zero residual sweetness of other fruit notes. Quite herbal with nice mineral qualities. I'm not a huge Belgian beer drinker, so the banana and strong yeast notes are distracting and not additive. Yet I still find this beer incredibly drinkable and tasty and am really, really liking the grapefruit juice.
Feel is fantastic. Extremely soft and silky, perfectly carbonated, with the lasting foam cap providing an added creaminess to an otherwise light-medium body. This one goes down extremely smooth, with zero heat or booziness but a nice parting shot of grapefruit pith before drying out completely.
I always expect well made beers from Blackberry Farm, and this one is no exception. Perhaps it should be categorized as something else, given the Belgian influences, but I went off the can description. Regardless, this one is rock solid. Not sure whether this will be produced again or is a complete one-off, but I'll certainly enjoy the 4-pack I bought as a great pace-changer in our hazy IPA world.
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