Freedom West Coast Pale
Go Brewing

 

Freedom West Coast Pale pours a copper color with little head. The aroma has a cooking broccoli flavor. The flavor has notes of steaming broccoli, a very odd, harsh, sharp, bitter flavor, with notes of rotten vegetables. Good feel. Overall, tastes very off, damp, rotten vegetable flavors.

 

A: crystal clear; very slight haze; a 1 finger finely pored white head that receded to a wispy cap with a moderate tight collar; nice lacing;

S: soapy pine;

T: pine from start to finish; moderate bitterness at the end;

M: light bodied; moderate carbonation; moderately dry finish;

O: needs some malt character to balance out the pine;

Can purchased and drank at Fattey Beer Company in Rochester, NY.

This one pours a light golden clear orange color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like slightly astringent piney hops and bready malt.

There’s some decent flavor here but it finishes so watery and empty, like so many NA beers. NA IPA is really hard to pull off, it feels like.

This is light bodied, super thin and watery, and kind of astringent with a faint peppery whisp on the end.

I don’t love this, it’s pretty basic for the style and doesn’t stand out much.