Farm Fresh IPA
Russell Brewing Company
- From:
- Russell Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.43 | pDev: 7.29%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 21, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 08, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
82
Good
82
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Ghrymm from Canada (BC)
3.48/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Poured from a 650ml bottle into my IPA glass.
A: Pours a Golden amber with a thin white head and spotty lacing
S: Almost no nose some hops there that's it.
F: Crisp mouth feel med carbonation,nice.
O: Not a bad IPA but so many better ones out there i had to try one,just ok
Jan 24, 2016A: Pours a Golden amber with a thin white head and spotty lacing
S: Almost no nose some hops there that's it.
F: Crisp mouth feel med carbonation,nice.
O: Not a bad IPA but so many better ones out there i had to try one,just ok
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.89/5 rDev +13.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.89/5 rDev +13.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Russell Brewing 'Farm Fresh IPA' @ 6.5% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $5.60
A-pour is gold from the bottle to glass with a small white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-centennial , cascade & chinook hops
T-crisp & clean tasting ipa
MF-ok carbonation , almost full bodied
Ov-nice beer ok ipa
prost LampertLand
Dec 26, 2015A-pour is gold from the bottle to glass with a small white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-centennial , cascade & chinook hops
T-crisp & clean tasting ipa
MF-ok carbonation , almost full bodied
Ov-nice beer ok ipa
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.49/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
I must concur with the previous reviews that were underwhelmed by this beer. I am a big fan of Russell. I really like the idea of "farm fresh". And I definitely like a good IPA. This beer looks promising, but doesn't quite pull through in the end. The hopping is overshadowed by the malt, and it all winds up tasting more like a middle of the road American pale. It's not the worst beer ever, but I was really hoping for better when I picked it off the shelf.
Dec 20, 2015
Reviewed by Mlkluther from Canada (AB)
3.06/5 rDev -10.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.06/5 rDev -10.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
I'm a fan of Russell brewing. Generally decent beers. However, this was very underwhelming. I'm not sure where the hops were. They were definitely absent without leave - which left me very disappointed.
Dec 16, 2015
Reviewed by westcoastbeergeek from Canada (BC)
3.5/5 rDev +2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev +2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Aroma and Appearance: It pours with three fingers of white foam, a clear copper colour and an average level of carbonation. The aroma is very malt forward, showcasing toffee, black plums, raisins, with herbal tea and tangerine citrus notes on the side.
Flavour: Like the aroma, it has a very malt forward flavour up front, featuring plums, raisins and chewy bread. In the middle some mild tangerine and peaches appear before it finishes with a dry grapefruit rind aftertaste and hints of lemon bitterness.
Overall Impression: It’s a nice beer, a bit more malt heavy than I was expecting, but that was ultimately a good thing.
Nov 12, 2015Flavour: Like the aroma, it has a very malt forward flavour up front, featuring plums, raisins and chewy bread. In the middle some mild tangerine and peaches appear before it finishes with a dry grapefruit rind aftertaste and hints of lemon bitterness.
Overall Impression: It’s a nice beer, a bit more malt heavy than I was expecting, but that was ultimately a good thing.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.45/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.45/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
650ml bottle, the latest in the currently fashionable trend of wet, fresh, or harvest hopped IPAs to hit the market.
This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with two hefty fingers of puffy, chunky, and mildly creamy off-white head, which leaves some streaky dense tree branch lace around the glass as it gently sinks out of sight.
It smells of bready, and rather doughy caramel malt, a bit of phenolic yeast, toothless citrus flesh, wet pine and musty green leaves, a suggestion of free-agent dank, and a twinge of paint thinner booziness. The taste is more bready, grainy, and fairly sweet caramel malt, muddled and consistently benign citrus notes, Pine-Sol, freshly fallen leaves, a now retreated yeastiness, and some thankfully turtling medicinal alcohol astringency.
The bubbles are pretty understated in their barely supportive frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, with a growing airy creaminess as things start to shed those fridge temperatures. It finishes sweet, and mostly malty, as any expected citrus, faintly tropical fruit, and wan pine forest hop esters are not about to pull a fast one and jump out from behind a curtain on us.
I guess the thing with fresh-hop brews is that you take what you get, all at the mercy of Mother Nature, much like vintners do. And here, all the marketing babble about the malt taking a backseat to the 'star' that are fresh hops just falls flat - switch it around, and that's what we have - a quite malt-heavy affair, one in which I had to really buckle down to find, and then scribble about, the actual hoppiness.
Nov 08, 2015This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with two hefty fingers of puffy, chunky, and mildly creamy off-white head, which leaves some streaky dense tree branch lace around the glass as it gently sinks out of sight.
It smells of bready, and rather doughy caramel malt, a bit of phenolic yeast, toothless citrus flesh, wet pine and musty green leaves, a suggestion of free-agent dank, and a twinge of paint thinner booziness. The taste is more bready, grainy, and fairly sweet caramel malt, muddled and consistently benign citrus notes, Pine-Sol, freshly fallen leaves, a now retreated yeastiness, and some thankfully turtling medicinal alcohol astringency.
The bubbles are pretty understated in their barely supportive frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, with a growing airy creaminess as things start to shed those fridge temperatures. It finishes sweet, and mostly malty, as any expected citrus, faintly tropical fruit, and wan pine forest hop esters are not about to pull a fast one and jump out from behind a curtain on us.
I guess the thing with fresh-hop brews is that you take what you get, all at the mercy of Mother Nature, much like vintners do. And here, all the marketing babble about the malt taking a backseat to the 'star' that are fresh hops just falls flat - switch it around, and that's what we have - a quite malt-heavy affair, one in which I had to really buckle down to find, and then scribble about, the actual hoppiness.
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