Owl in a Day's Work
Fonta Flora Brewery

Pours pale yellow with a 1/2 inch white head. Moderate lacing to end. A bit hazy.

Strong aroma of lemon, grass.

Taste is lemon, slight pine.

Medium bodied, light carbonation. Dry finish.

Great tasting beer, a lemonade for grown ups.

Canned 4.5 weeks ago.

L -- Moderately hazy straw body with a scant finger of solid white head produced with moderately aerated pour. Minimal retention and some spotty lacing
S -- Lemongrass, lime zest, basil, orange sherbert, hint of new sneaker. The lemongrass really smacks you front and center and somewhat overpowers the more delicate hop aromas
T -- Floral, black-tea bitterness, more lemongrass and other garden herbs, kiwi, compost pile, and a bit of citrus sweetness
F -- Medium mouthfeel, medium carb. Sort of a weird balance between the malt sweetness, the herbaceousness of the lemongrass, and the bitterness of the hops
O -- I don't think Fonta Flora does hops particularly well. They should stick to wilds and fruited ales, imo

65/100

 

Pours a hazy orange color with a one finger biscuit head. No real lacing and it retains poorly.

Aroma is strong with sweet citrus.

Flavor is also on the sweet side with the lemongrass flavor dominating which is floral and citrusy and a little earthy. While I might not be looking for this flavor much I think they did a good job of balancing it with the sweet, light malt. There is a touch of tangerine in there too.

Feel is a little soft and carbonated with a slight alcohol burn in the finish. Really no perceptible bitterness either. Reminds me of the feel for early "hazies" from the southern Maine area a few years back.

I picked this one up on a whim as I found it in my local store and hadn't heard of FF before. This is not my typical beer to get but I can appreciate that they crafted it well. Not too sweet and full of flavor.

 

 

Holy floral, Batman! This tastes like straight up honeysuckles. Good for the warm weather.

 

 

A: Pours a lightly hazy golden honey in color with moderate amounts of active visible carbonation rising along the edges of the glass and moderate golden yellow + burnt orange colored highlights. The beer has a two finger tall dense fizzy foamy off-white head that quickly reduces to a large patch of slightly mottled very thin film covering the entire surface of the beer and a thin ring at the edges of the glass. Light to moderate amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Moderate aromas of lemongrass over the top of light aromas of lightly toasted + bready + caramel malts with a light amount of caramel sweetness. Just shy of moderate aromas of stone fruit/peach, tropical/papaya, citrus/grapefruit, and slightly dank resinous hops.

T: Upfront there are slightly heavier than light flavors of lightly toasted + bready + caramel malts with a light amount of caramel sweetness. That is followed by slightly stronger than moderate flavors of lemongrass. Finally there are moderate flavors of stone fruit/peach, tropical/papaya, citrus/grapefruit, and slightly dank resinous hops which impart a light amount of bitterness which lingers through the finish.

M: medium bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Initially slightly crisp with a hint of dryness in the finish.

O: Easy to drink with well hidden alcohol. Enjoyable and a little different with this combonation of hops as well as the addition of lemongrass.