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The Brut Squad
Fair State Brewing Cooperative
- From:
- Fair State Brewing Cooperative
- Minnesota, United States
- Style:
- Brut IPA
- ABV:
- 6.1%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.03 | pDev: 4.71%
- Reviews:
- 16
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 17, 2019
- Added:
- Sep 01, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
IPA is a fickle beast - now bitter, now hazy, now dry AF. Luckily, this is a trend we agree with wholeheartedly. The Brut Squad is bone dry, effervescent, aromatic, and remarkably civilized. Brewed with Idaho 7 and Citra Cryo hops.
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Reviewed by tone77 from Pennsylvania
3.64/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.64/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
A thanks to the amazing woodychandler for this beer. Poured from a 16 oz. can. Has a bright golden color with a 1 inch head. Smell is of pineapple, citrus. Taste is citrus, spices, a touch of grapes, mild bitterness, finishes dry. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall is an enjoyable beer.
Nov 17, 2019Reviewed by vette2006c5r from Minnesota
4.08/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.08/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
The brut squad pours a copper color, with a massively lacing head. Dry hippy aroma. Flavor is hippy and drum. Good body and feel. Overall, very good ipa, nice and dry.
Jun 08, 2019Reviewed by Vidblain from Minnesota
4/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
I am really enjoying the brut style thus far - this is a particularly decent specimen, quite dry, light, and still enjoyably sweet. I love how clean it finishes. Beers like this are so crushable that I need to avoid them.
Jan 05, 2019Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
4.52/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.52/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
If you CAN remember as far back as New Year's Day (2019), you may recall that I rang it in with some AmeriCAN Brut IPAs. I learned that I like the CANcept of the burgeoning style & also that not all of them are created equal. I was on a CANQuest (tm) treasure hunt yesterday afternoon at Dominion Pizza when I saw this & snagged it for inclusion.
From the CAN: "IPA is a fickle beast - now bitter, now hazy, now dry AF. Luckily, this is a trend we agree with wholeheartedly. The Brut Squad is bone dry, effervescent, aromatic, and remarkably civilized. Brewed with Idaho 7 and Citra Cryo hops."
I love hearing the Crack! of a CAN's vent being opened & this ocCANsion was no exception. It came in the recently-established industry-standard 16-fl oz Pint sized CAN, so a C-Line Glug was much more appropriate than an Inverted Glug. Boy, did it want to foam! It released just over three fingers' worth of dense, foamy, rocky, bone-white head with great retention, leaving loads of sticky lacing in its wake. Color was a gorgeous Gold (SRM = 5) with 24-karat clarity & if you don't think that The Gelt Gang of Croesus, Midas & Mammon was excited for a taste, you've got another think coming. Nose had a more pronounced hop presence than in the ones a few days ago, IMHO. Here, there was no question that it was an AIPA of some stripe. It was very floral, almost like it had been wet-hopped, with a decided pine mintiness. Swoon! Mouthfeel was medium, about on par for the style. The taste was yet another revelation! It was cool, but not overridden with pine. Instead, it had a pleasant mintiness coupled with a light vanilla sweetness. It was quite unique in my albeit limited exbeerience. I allowed subsequent draughts from the glass to swirl & warm in my mouth & on my tongue. A slight woodiness also began to appear as a result.
I remember a like taste from a high-end white wine many years ago during a tour of CA's Wine County, N of SF. We were looked at as plebeians until they realized that all of us had money & (kind of) knew what we were tasting. How interesting that this flavor profile has come to beer!
Finish was dry, veddy dry. I've had Gin that was sweeter! My uncle tells of his first batch of homebrewed apple wine that he allowed to ferment to the point that it was like dessiCANt. This was not THAT dry, but it was still unquestionably dry.
I think that I amy have found my new favorite style! I detested Cascadian/Black IPAs when they first appeared (& thankfully have mostly gone away) since the roasted malts only got in the way of my beloved hops. Here, the hops were front & center with the yeast as the major seCANd fiddle. Mmmm.
Jan 05, 2019From the CAN: "IPA is a fickle beast - now bitter, now hazy, now dry AF. Luckily, this is a trend we agree with wholeheartedly. The Brut Squad is bone dry, effervescent, aromatic, and remarkably civilized. Brewed with Idaho 7 and Citra Cryo hops."
I love hearing the Crack! of a CAN's vent being opened & this ocCANsion was no exception. It came in the recently-established industry-standard 16-fl oz Pint sized CAN, so a C-Line Glug was much more appropriate than an Inverted Glug. Boy, did it want to foam! It released just over three fingers' worth of dense, foamy, rocky, bone-white head with great retention, leaving loads of sticky lacing in its wake. Color was a gorgeous Gold (SRM = 5) with 24-karat clarity & if you don't think that The Gelt Gang of Croesus, Midas & Mammon was excited for a taste, you've got another think coming. Nose had a more pronounced hop presence than in the ones a few days ago, IMHO. Here, there was no question that it was an AIPA of some stripe. It was very floral, almost like it had been wet-hopped, with a decided pine mintiness. Swoon! Mouthfeel was medium, about on par for the style. The taste was yet another revelation! It was cool, but not overridden with pine. Instead, it had a pleasant mintiness coupled with a light vanilla sweetness. It was quite unique in my albeit limited exbeerience. I allowed subsequent draughts from the glass to swirl & warm in my mouth & on my tongue. A slight woodiness also began to appear as a result.
I remember a like taste from a high-end white wine many years ago during a tour of CA's Wine County, N of SF. We were looked at as plebeians until they realized that all of us had money & (kind of) knew what we were tasting. How interesting that this flavor profile has come to beer!
Finish was dry, veddy dry. I've had Gin that was sweeter! My uncle tells of his first batch of homebrewed apple wine that he allowed to ferment to the point that it was like dessiCANt. This was not THAT dry, but it was still unquestionably dry.
I think that I amy have found my new favorite style! I detested Cascadian/Black IPAs when they first appeared (& thankfully have mostly gone away) since the roasted malts only got in the way of my beloved hops. Here, the hops were front & center with the yeast as the major seCANd fiddle. Mmmm.
Reviewed by zeff80 from Missouri
4.02/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.02/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
16oz can. Poured out a hazy, golden yellow color with a small, white head of foam. It smelled of caramel, orange, pineapple and mango. Sweet tropical fruit taste with caramel and a dry, crisp finish.
Jan 02, 2019Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts
3.73/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Canned 8/23/18, wish I drank this earlier but I've only had it for a few weeks, wish I checked the date before purchase
Pours a whispy fizzy small head, decent retention, nice lacing, hazy golden blond color
Nose starts a little spicy and grassy, little citrus but very light, little dank resin, touch herbal
Taste mild citrus fruit, rind, little spicy and more mild dank resin, more mild herbal slight vegetal hop into super spicy and quite bitter mostly late, mild soft malt with dry finish but doesn't have that super brut dry finish, I wonder what the FG was.
Mouth is med bod, decent fizzy carb, little soft
Overall meh, maybe I need to have this fresher but seems like misses the brut style and hops were lackluster
Jan 01, 2019Pours a whispy fizzy small head, decent retention, nice lacing, hazy golden blond color
Nose starts a little spicy and grassy, little citrus but very light, little dank resin, touch herbal
Taste mild citrus fruit, rind, little spicy and more mild dank resin, more mild herbal slight vegetal hop into super spicy and quite bitter mostly late, mild soft malt with dry finish but doesn't have that super brut dry finish, I wonder what the FG was.
Mouth is med bod, decent fizzy carb, little soft
Overall meh, maybe I need to have this fresher but seems like misses the brut style and hops were lackluster
Reviewed by VashonGuy from Washington
3.98/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
My first Brut IPA, so I don't have anything to compare it to. It's very light, light in color (nice head and lacing), light in body, and light in taste, in the best possible way. It's quite dry. I'll gladly have more of this!
Dec 28, 2018Reviewed by ipeters1017 from Wisconsin
3.97/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.97/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Pours a clear golden with tons of bubbles and a white head. Super hop forward on the nose and in taste. Effervescent, refreshing, and very dry. Best brut IPA I've found.
Dec 25, 2018Reviewed by VoxRationis from New York
4.24/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Decanted from 16 oz (473 ml) can into a snifter glass; production information on the bottom unintelligible.
A: Pours an increasingly hazy, yellow with a one finger, foamy white head with fair retention and lacing.
S: Floral. Light aromas of pitted fruits, especially ripe peach, orange/lime, and sauvignon blanc grapes.
T: Semidry. Orange/lime, pine and grapefruit (stronger here than in aroma), and sauvignon blanc grapes. Bitterness seems as if derived from white pepper.
M: Light bodied with moderate to strong carbonation. Refreshing.
O: Great example of the style.
Dec 08, 2018A: Pours an increasingly hazy, yellow with a one finger, foamy white head with fair retention and lacing.
S: Floral. Light aromas of pitted fruits, especially ripe peach, orange/lime, and sauvignon blanc grapes.
T: Semidry. Orange/lime, pine and grapefruit (stronger here than in aroma), and sauvignon blanc grapes. Bitterness seems as if derived from white pepper.
M: Light bodied with moderate to strong carbonation. Refreshing.
O: Great example of the style.
Reviewed by mwilbur from Minnesota
4.08/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.08/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from pint can into shaker pint glass. 11/7/18 stamped on the bottom.
A: Pours a very clear pale yellow with 1 inch bubbly white head that gradually settles to a thin skim. Decent lacing.
S: Lovely aromatic hops...white pepper, white grape, subdued pine, and softened (still with some bite) grapefruit.
T: Pine and grapefruit (stronger here than in aroma), orange, white pepper, and white grape notes.
M: Light body. Lively carbonation. Refreshing with subdued citrus sweetness. Dry throughout. Mildly bitter.
D: Really enjoying this style and Fair State has a solid offering. Give it a go!
P.S. Love the name!
Dec 02, 2018A: Pours a very clear pale yellow with 1 inch bubbly white head that gradually settles to a thin skim. Decent lacing.
S: Lovely aromatic hops...white pepper, white grape, subdued pine, and softened (still with some bite) grapefruit.
T: Pine and grapefruit (stronger here than in aroma), orange, white pepper, and white grape notes.
M: Light body. Lively carbonation. Refreshing with subdued citrus sweetness. Dry throughout. Mildly bitter.
D: Really enjoying this style and Fair State has a solid offering. Give it a go!
P.S. Love the name!
Reviewed by Greywulfken from New York
4.08/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.08/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
With the style overhaul in the rear-view mirror, it turns out I have never had a beer that falls into the newly designated American Brut IPA category... Remedying that situation with this Brut IPA from Fair State Brewing Collective - another first, as this is my first beer from their brewery...
Poured a deep yellow with faint haze and a big fluffy head; bubbles effervesced from the bottom of the glass while the head receded and left foam sheeting down the glass... Brewed with Idaho 7 and citra cryo hops, the beer had a floral and citrus aroma, with impressions of grasses and herbs, and maybe even a little dry funk... The flavors matched the aromas, but the citrus was muted and mild, and the herbal and grassy elements came forward more... There was a distinct "barnyard" character that reminded me of some saisons and brett-beers I've had in the past... The bitterness and sweetness levels were both mild, and the carbonation added to a soft, smooth, highly drinkable feel... Light-bodied and drying on the finish, it presented a very graceful beer... Definitely recommended, and a good entry point for the style... 8/23/18 canning...
Oct 23, 2018Poured a deep yellow with faint haze and a big fluffy head; bubbles effervesced from the bottom of the glass while the head receded and left foam sheeting down the glass... Brewed with Idaho 7 and citra cryo hops, the beer had a floral and citrus aroma, with impressions of grasses and herbs, and maybe even a little dry funk... The flavors matched the aromas, but the citrus was muted and mild, and the herbal and grassy elements came forward more... There was a distinct "barnyard" character that reminded me of some saisons and brett-beers I've had in the past... The bitterness and sweetness levels were both mild, and the carbonation added to a soft, smooth, highly drinkable feel... Light-bodied and drying on the finish, it presented a very graceful beer... Definitely recommended, and a good entry point for the style... 8/23/18 canning...
The Brut Squad from Fair State Brewing Cooperative
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
39 ratings
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