Downcoast
Fox Farm Brewery
- From:
- Fox Farm Brewery
- Connecticut, United States
- Style:
- India Pale Lager (IPL)
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 17, 2026
- Added:
- May 17, 2026
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Just two months ago we introduced Upcoast, our first exploration into the new world of West Coast Pils. At the time we expressed our enthusiasm for the style - one that combines pilsner sensibilities and lager yeast expression with the clean and punchy hop profile of modern West Coast pales. Wasting no time, we quickly set about brewing Downcoast, a companion beer meant to deepen our understanding and further immerse ourselves in the style. Unlike Upcoast, Downcoast stands on a 100% pilsner barley malt grist. On the hot side it has a similarly complex and layered hop bill but its dry hop stands alone with a combination of Simcoe, Nelson Sauvin, Tangier and Celeste - an exciting new hop (from our friends The Hop Guild) we knew simply as “2B” when it was added to the beer but now has a name all its own.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thebeers from Pennsylvania
3.73/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.73/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Pours a clear urine-gold color with strong effervescence and two fingers of airy, near-white head. Rocky dissipation settles into a healthy cap with some solid soap bubble lacing.
Grass, light cat piss and dull orange citrus in the nose.
Light IPL taste: biscuity malt, very light honey, and even less orange peel, with a mild mineral water component and modest tea-like bitterness in the finish.
Soft, pillowy mouthfeel with just a little zip to the carbonation.
An inoffensive beer I’d peg as an English IPA-inspired IPL. There’s nothing in here that says pilsner to me.
May 17, 2026Grass, light cat piss and dull orange citrus in the nose.
Light IPL taste: biscuity malt, very light honey, and even less orange peel, with a mild mineral water component and modest tea-like bitterness in the finish.
Soft, pillowy mouthfeel with just a little zip to the carbonation.
An inoffensive beer I’d peg as an English IPA-inspired IPL. There’s nothing in here that says pilsner to me.
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