Freestone Summer Ale
Bowen Island Brewing Co. Ltd.
- From:
- Bowen Island Brewing Co. Ltd.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.39 | pDev: 21.24%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 19, 2016
- Added:
- Apr 17, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 4
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Danomeister from Canada (BC)
2.5/5 rDev -26.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.5/5 rDev -26.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
More like juice than beer. I had the impression of a Hawaiian Pineapple-Tangerine juice box while my friend thought it tasted like Tang. Still interesting...
Oct 19, 2016
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.72/5 rDev +9.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.72/5 rDev +9.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
355ml can, part of its own sixers, and not the current Bowen Island mixed pack, as one might be expecting.
This beer pours a murky, medium orange-amber colour, with three fat fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy ecru head, which leaves a bit of combining DNA strand lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of pungent apricot and peach fleshy fruit, a subtle gritty and grainy wheatiness, and maybe a touch of indistinct earthy spice. The taste is more rather sweet peach, apricot, nectarine, and plum stone fruitiness, a twinge of musty yeast, some plain and grainy wheat malt, and a still hard to pin down sense of overburdened spice.
The carbonation is adequate in its mostly supportive and only rarely playful frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, in the manner of juice made from the aforementioned fruit. It finishes sweet, but not overly so, the lingering stone orchard fruitiness seeing this one out, as if there was ever any doubt about it!
Overall, a refreshing and enjoyable enough fruity ale (purportedly, it's made in the style of a 'Belgian wheat', but you'd be hard pressed to tell). It's almost like peach or apricot radler, as the fruit flavour dominates almost every aspect, which is OK for the one, as I happen to like it. However, putting back a half-dozen of these, even in the summer sunshine, would be a trying, and potentially tongue-scraping experience.
Apr 21, 2016This beer pours a murky, medium orange-amber colour, with three fat fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy ecru head, which leaves a bit of combining DNA strand lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of pungent apricot and peach fleshy fruit, a subtle gritty and grainy wheatiness, and maybe a touch of indistinct earthy spice. The taste is more rather sweet peach, apricot, nectarine, and plum stone fruitiness, a twinge of musty yeast, some plain and grainy wheat malt, and a still hard to pin down sense of overburdened spice.
The carbonation is adequate in its mostly supportive and only rarely playful frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, in the manner of juice made from the aforementioned fruit. It finishes sweet, but not overly so, the lingering stone orchard fruitiness seeing this one out, as if there was ever any doubt about it!
Overall, a refreshing and enjoyable enough fruity ale (purportedly, it's made in the style of a 'Belgian wheat', but you'd be hard pressed to tell). It's almost like peach or apricot radler, as the fruit flavour dominates almost every aspect, which is OK for the one, as I happen to like it. However, putting back a half-dozen of these, even in the summer sunshine, would be a trying, and potentially tongue-scraping experience.
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