Air Mail IPA
Freehold Brewing Co.
- From:
- Freehold Brewing Co.
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.87 | pDev: 3.88%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 03, 2019
- Added:
- Feb 18, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
473ml can - named after the new at the time practice of delivering correspondence via airplane in Alberta at the end of the Great War.
This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with three zaftig fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some stellar snow rime pattern lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of funky yeast, bready and doughy cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus peel, some hard water flintiness, and plain earthy, musty, and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, an estery Belgian yeastiness, mixed and matched citrus and black stone fruity notes, a damp minerality, and more understated leafy, weedy, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-probing frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of yeast intransigence perhaps taking things down a notch or so from the ideal here. It finishes trending dry, the yeast and hops in a lingering two-step.
Overall - this comes across as one of the better versions of the style that I have yet encountered, with the IPA essences melding well with the old-school, Low Countries yeast factor. Which, now that I think about it, may explain why they're referencing the year 1918 on the label.
Feb 20, 2019This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with three zaftig fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some stellar snow rime pattern lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of funky yeast, bready and doughy cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus peel, some hard water flintiness, and plain earthy, musty, and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, an estery Belgian yeastiness, mixed and matched citrus and black stone fruity notes, a damp minerality, and more understated leafy, weedy, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-probing frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of yeast intransigence perhaps taking things down a notch or so from the ideal here. It finishes trending dry, the yeast and hops in a lingering two-step.
Overall - this comes across as one of the better versions of the style that I have yet encountered, with the IPA essences melding well with the old-school, Low Countries yeast factor. Which, now that I think about it, may explain why they're referencing the year 1918 on the label.
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