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Fox Farm Brewery

 

 

 

Look: pineapple juice. Light haze. Pours light gold/straw color

Smell: this beer smells like lemon Meringue pie! I’ve never smelled any NE IPA quite like it. Limoncello also something that comes to mind. Also tropical fruits like passion fruit and papaya. There is a dank edge as well.

Taste: follows the nose (but a bit more muted imo). Starts off with the tropical fruits and lemons followed quickly with a dank wheat husk/hay character. Medium- bitterness dries it out nicely.

Feel: not the best mouth feel of a NE IPA, but decent.

Overall: a really solid beer. Quite unique. Fox farm is good.

Poured from a 16oz refrigerated can stamped 06/02/21 to a Nonic.
Small white head sits on a yellow hazy body that kind of glows, but maybe thats my local lighting. Head fades quickly, but does lace somewhat.
The aroma is hoppy, slightly musty with a note a sweetness. Pleasant.
Taste has a nice bitter start and finish. In between there is a sweet hit of orange and pineapple.
Medium mouthfeel suits this beer well.
A nice beer overall.

 

 

 

 

 

Pours hazy, gold in color with 1/4 inch head. Taste is wet dank hops and slight peach. Medium bodied, slightly bitter with moderate carbonation. Makes for a solid dank ipa. Slightly above average.

Canned on 6/10/20

Pours a hazy, bright golden lemon body topped with one and a half fingers of tight, white foam; okay head retention leaves a spotty few islands of paper-thin cap, a frothy collar, and a consistent smattering of webby lacing ringing around the glass.

Aroma bursts with a tandem of passionfruit and dank white grape must upfront, steadily inviting hints of grapefruit rind and bright lemon peel across the middle; tangerine and orange peel come through toward the back end as a vague creaminess lies deep in the background alongside a well-integrated flaky malt presence.

Taste opens with a familiar passionfruit tone, accompanied by spiced peach skin, orange peel, and underripe white grape into a mid-palate showcasing a light creaminess into prickly lemon; delicate herbal hops accent the entirety of the profile over the back end and into the finish.

Mouthfeel brings a medium-light body and a subtle carbonation on the lower end of moderate; a silky, semi-creamy mid-palate offers a gradual transition to a zesty finish, where a mild lingering of pillowy acidity and bitterness find harmony.

A subtle and soft profile is propelled upward by a body with focused, effortless structure, amplifying a citrusy, dank brightness and highlighting the overall roundedness that makes this IPA a truly easygoing, casually expressive brew.

 

L: Straw color, hazy but not opaque, some lacing.
S: Grain, dank, citrus
T: Zesty orange, light grainy sweetness, dry finish.
F: Mouthfeel is light and dry. A little thin.
O: Really nice, easy drinking. This is the type of NEIPA that I look for, balanced and not a juice bomb. Similar to hill farmstead. I just wish the mouthfeel was slightly fuller.

 

 

 

This one pours a fairly hazy golden yellow color, with a fluffy head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like pulpy orange, earthy citrus, pine, clean grassiness, and candied melon.

This is really HF like in execution. The bitterness is clean and refreshing. There’s some melon and pineapple, with a touch of sweetness and no maltiness.

This is crisp and super clean, with a great level of drinkability.

This is one of better IPAs I’ve had in a little bit.