Flash Flood IPA
Folding Mountain Brewing
- From:
- Folding Mountain Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.38 | pDev: 17.46%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 05, 2018
- Added:
- Jul 27, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
82
Good
82
Good
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews. | Log in to view more ratings + sorting options.
Reviewed by Hat_Fulla_Beer from Canada (AB)
3.72/5 rDev +10.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev +10.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
473ml can poured into Sam Adams pint glass.
Pours a clear golden yellow with one finger of white head that leaves erupting volcano lace as it recedes.
Smells of mixed citrus zest, crisp cereal grains, mild caramel, flinty water and some fairly tame piney hops.
Tastes of grainy caramel malt, mild orange and grapefruit, underripe pineapple and melon and more soft pine resin.
Feels soft and fluffy. Medium bodied with frothy carbonation. Finishes dry.
Verdict: Recommended. Not bad at all, but a little limp for what it claims to be.
Apr 18, 2018Pours a clear golden yellow with one finger of white head that leaves erupting volcano lace as it recedes.
Smells of mixed citrus zest, crisp cereal grains, mild caramel, flinty water and some fairly tame piney hops.
Tastes of grainy caramel malt, mild orange and grapefruit, underripe pineapple and melon and more soft pine resin.
Feels soft and fluffy. Medium bodied with frothy carbonation. Finishes dry.
Verdict: Recommended. Not bad at all, but a little limp for what it claims to be.
Reviewed by Detective from Canada (AB)
1.83/5 rDev -45.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
1.83/5 rDev -45.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
473ml can. There are really no hops or flavours of note. Bitterness is non-existent. I have a hard time believing this is an IPA, I have had far stronger ISAs this is more like a Keith’s. Extremely dissapointing, my only hope is that this was a bad batch or something but I won’t be wasting my time on it again.
Nov 11, 2017
Reviewed by TooManyGlasses from Canada (AB)
3.44/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.44/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Expectations dashed. At the brewpub on tap - really nice establishment. This pours a clear golden, with a faint citrus aroma and background caramel malt. Taste is minimally hoppy with a distant piney note - a bit thin. No significant residual bitterness. Smooth and easy drinking but...anticipated something different so...expectations dashed.
Oct 15, 2017
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.67/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.67/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
1L howler from the affable folks at the brewpub - if you're ever out to Jasper, I recommend stopping on by, but pay attention, as they're kind of difficult to see through the trees when blowing past at 110.
This beer pours a mostly clear, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent old forest growth lace around the glass as it gently recedes.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, a faint caramel sweetness, subtle generic citrus flesh, a touch of earthy yeastiness, mild stoney notes, and very tame leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, indistinct tropical fruit, an understated damp flintiness, ephemeral citrus rind, and more relatively benign earthy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a normal guy middleweight, and generally smooth, with a minor airy creaminess pretty much there from the outset. It finishes off-dry, the muted malt and wan blended hops seeing us to the exit without fanfare.
Overall - while this is hardly an unpleasant offering, it comes across as much more of a simple, well-crafted pale ale, than the 'NEIPA' that the brewery claims it to be. Maybe it's the German hops that take away some of the Yankee can-do bitterness, but I gotta say, temper your expectations with this one.
Jul 29, 2017This beer pours a mostly clear, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent old forest growth lace around the glass as it gently recedes.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, a faint caramel sweetness, subtle generic citrus flesh, a touch of earthy yeastiness, mild stoney notes, and very tame leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, indistinct tropical fruit, an understated damp flintiness, ephemeral citrus rind, and more relatively benign earthy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a normal guy middleweight, and generally smooth, with a minor airy creaminess pretty much there from the outset. It finishes off-dry, the muted malt and wan blended hops seeing us to the exit without fanfare.
Overall - while this is hardly an unpleasant offering, it comes across as much more of a simple, well-crafted pale ale, than the 'NEIPA' that the brewery claims it to be. Maybe it's the German hops that take away some of the Yankee can-do bitterness, but I gotta say, temper your expectations with this one.
We love reviews (150 characters or more)! Check out: How to Review a Beer. You don't need to get fancy. Drop some thoughts on the beer's attributes (look, smell, taste, feel) plus your overall impression. Something that backs up your rating and helps others. Thanks!