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Blaze
Foundation Brewing Company
- From:
- Foundation Brewing Company
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- Belgian IPA
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 3.93 | pDev: 9.16%
- Reviews:
- 14
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 27, 2016
- Added:
- Mar 20, 2014
- Wants:
- 8
- Gots:
- 25
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Reviewed by ScaryEd from New Hampshire
3.57/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.57/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Pours a clear golden color with a huge, fluffy off-white head. Leaves a nice crown of lacing around the top of the glass.
On the aroma I get a good amount of Belgian yeast and bananas, as well as a touch of peppery spice.
The flavor starts off sweet from the banana notes and some bready malt. Finishes bitter with some peppery rye and a spicy hop bite.
The feel is medium bodied with good carbonation. Nicely crisp and refreshing. Bitterness lingers for a bit too long after each sip.
Overall, a pretty good Belgian IPA that drinks just as much like a Hefeweizen. Decently balanced.
May 27, 2016On the aroma I get a good amount of Belgian yeast and bananas, as well as a touch of peppery spice.
The flavor starts off sweet from the banana notes and some bready malt. Finishes bitter with some peppery rye and a spicy hop bite.
The feel is medium bodied with good carbonation. Nicely crisp and refreshing. Bitterness lingers for a bit too long after each sip.
Overall, a pretty good Belgian IPA that drinks just as much like a Hefeweizen. Decently balanced.
Reviewed by anthony23cippy from Maine
3.9/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.9/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a pint can bottled on 5/3/2016 purchases at natural living center in Bangor, ME. Pours a light sraw with a tint of grapefruit juice like color mixed in, has a two finger foam head that sticks around for a while, very little to no lacing. Smell is the best part of the beer, smells of banana, cloves, vanilla, pepercorn, oak, and the sugary 2 row malt backbone. Taste doesnt really carry the smells through, at first you taste the malt sweetness from the pale, then its mostly alcohol, with a grain rye like aftertaste, really not that great or expected with the exceptional smell. Mouthfeel is perfect, nice and balanced and perfectly carbonated. Overall I love the smell and the style, more similar to a hefe than a ipa as per the smell, the taste is like an ESB. Would get again, maybe on draft though instead. 3.9/5.
May 11, 2016Reviewed by WesMantooth from Ohio
3.81/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Smells like rye and fruit. Pretty spicy. Lots of banana and cloves in the flavor with a significant peppery kick. A lot of eartht yeast. Pretty chewy body. Drinks more like a hoppy Hefe to me, but tasty.
Apr 23, 2016
Blaze from Foundation Brewing Company
Beer rating:
88 out of
100 with
134 ratings
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