Foy
Schilling Beer Co.

I haven't had a Belgian IPA in a long while, sill an interesting style of beer!!! Poured from a 16 oz. can into a pint glass, Foy features a hazy gold color with a big foamy white head and lots of lacing. Head retention is excellent. A good-looking beer!!! Aroma and taste feature the yeast, as so many Belgian-style beers do. Beyond that, there is citrus fruit presence, mostly lime and a mild herbal and spicy hops presence. Mouthfeel is moderately rich with understated bitterness and herbal and yeasty flavors. An easy drinker, more complex than other types of IPA. I have enjoyed all the beers I have had from this breer.

 

 

 

 

My first from brewer in Nothern NH. Perhaps visit next time you climb Mt Washington.
16oz can poured into a tulip.

A) Lots of lace, lasting head, over a hazed deep golden body. Pours classic Belgian.
S) Lots of yeast and phenols, but more lime, peppercorn, incense than bubble gum.
T) Brings a larger flavor profile: Lime, key lime, peppercorn, peach, medicine cabinet, slightly funky, white crackers. Complex, and multi-layered.
F) Mid body, lovely tongue weight and feel, finishes astringent, clean.
o) So much better and affordable that Belgian classics. I could drink this every day.

Tall can

Pours all hazed up and pretty...leaving fine bubble lacing and sheeting.

Sassy nose with some pepper, yeasty goodness.

Tasty brew with a bunch more pepper, lime abounding and yes more Belgian tasting yeast notes. Soft, smooth, flavor filled...pretty darn good, and yes it helps if you love the style

16oz can poured into a tulip.

A: Can was poured without rousing the yeast, but we still get a *just* barely opaque golden color. Large bubbled white head is huge and rocky. It retains at a solid two fingers for the duration and leaves lots of chunky lacing on the glass.

S: Musty yeast, church incense, pink peppercorns, lots of pithiness, lemon rind, pithy orange, apricot, kiwi. Whiffs of grain and cracker. An explosion of citrusy hops, tropical esters, and some fun and easygoing phenols.

T: Very pithy at the outset. Orange rind, lemon, bit of ruby red grapefruit. Flashes of juicy peach and apricot. Tropical esters. Fresh garden herbs and a gentle amount of oily bitterness. Peppery phenols, just barely medicinal. Big dose of musty, lightly funky yeast. Very quick brush of alcohol. Dry overall. Malt character moves from doughy to crackery. Long pithy and tropical finish with notes of hemp and herbal greenery.

M: Medium bodied, but with a very full and fluffy texture. A slight sense of weight presses gently. Ample carbonation. Light, gently raspy hop astringency.

O: It's been a long time since I've has a Belgian IPA, but this is a solid take. The yeast character and fermentation in particular are nailed. I like that it gets to stay lightly funky and rustic. There's a lot of depth and simultaneously great contrast and interplay between that funky yeast and estery fermentation and the citrusy hop profile. I enjoyed it with an excellent Italian cheese called Fior di Tiglio and it made for one of those solidly content pairing experiences that puts a quietly satisfying cap on an evening.

 

 

 

 

 

Canned 2021/04/12
Pours a light fizzy head with med lower retention, bit of lacing, hazy cloudy med orange color

Nose brings plenty of citrus, plenty of bubblegum and generic fruity esters, little citrus zest, creamy wheat doughy malt

Taste more ipa up front, spicy hop with fair citrus zest, more fruity esters and some bubblegum, med to lighter bitterness, light grainy malt and doughy wheat, bit creamy, then get med bitterness spicy hop on the med dry finish, gets a little green spicy as well

Mouth is med bod, bit creamy, med fizzy carb

Overall not bad, good yeast ester profile, malts were decent, wish the hops didn't get so spicy and green though, this brewery is consistently great and this was kinda meh for them

Super underrated style. Hazy in an incidental sort of way. Love the play of the phenols with citrusy hops. Plus some decent bitterness and super dry. Effervescent Belgian mouthfeel makes it even more attractive. Lovely take on a style that is sort of intrinsically refreshing in this beer climate.

 

 

 

Pale straw yellow with small head and lace. Light citrus and yeasty aroma and similar sweetness light Citrus dry finish. Light soft body . Yeasty belgianness. Excellent.

On tap at the brewery. First trip and I love this place!! Syd had a terrific NEIPA (Hop Weave). Wanted to try the Schilling Belgian style. Very solid