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Forest & Main - The Brewery
- From:
- Forest & Main - The Brewery
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7.75%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.33 | pDev: 0.46%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 24, 2025
- Added:
- Dec 15, 2024
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Man, this beer really sings. It’s one of those beers that feel like if aliens wanted to know what an American IPA tastes like, you’d hand them this. We brewed it with good malted barley, hopped it with tons of Centennial and Chinook, and fermented it with the classic Chico yeast. It has notes of Ponderosa pine, golden honey, mixed citrus marmalade, a bowl of kumquats, poached pears, and freshly sliced apples.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by dano213 from Pennsylvania
4.35/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.35/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
16oz can purchased directly from the brewery as a mix-a-4 pack for $20. According to Instagram, this was released on December 10, 2024. So this beer is 4 1/2 months old.
Look: A very nice deep golden color that borders on "light orange". Nice clarity and very fine bubbles steadily rising. There was a solid two fingers of off-white, foamy and rocky head that slowly crumbled to a marshmallow cloud island.
Smell: Lots of pine and a good dose of caramel malt. Floral jasmine notes. Grassy. Very peppery with a toasty malt backbone. Grapefruit zest and orange zest. There's a bit of a tomato stock and vegetable patch note going on here that makes this very interesting. Green bell pepper on the finish after swirling the glass. I want to say that I am getting a faint secondary coconut note on the nose? Pretty cool for a Centennial & Chinook-hopped WCIPA.
Taste: This is really tasty. It has that classic West Coast IPA bitterness and dryness on the finish. The finish lingers long with tots of orange zest, grapefruit pith, and some pepperiness. Up front, it's actually a bit sweet initially with notes of honey and cereal gran initially along with pithy/citrusy and piney notes. The beer also has a nice amount of astringency and it just works for this style and this beer. It's very hoppy and it tastes like everything is balanced in the right proportions. It's so flavorful and also very crushable because it's so tasty. But because it's so tasty, you want to take your time drinking it and not have it be gone in three minutes.
Feel: Medium plus bodied with a relatively soft and somewhat oily mouthfeel. Perfectly carbonated. Very clean beer.
Overall: A delicious beer. I think that Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. would approve. Forest & Main continues to crush it. One of the many styles that they know how to do really well is West Coast IPA. Rock on, F&M!
Apr 24, 2025Look: A very nice deep golden color that borders on "light orange". Nice clarity and very fine bubbles steadily rising. There was a solid two fingers of off-white, foamy and rocky head that slowly crumbled to a marshmallow cloud island.
Smell: Lots of pine and a good dose of caramel malt. Floral jasmine notes. Grassy. Very peppery with a toasty malt backbone. Grapefruit zest and orange zest. There's a bit of a tomato stock and vegetable patch note going on here that makes this very interesting. Green bell pepper on the finish after swirling the glass. I want to say that I am getting a faint secondary coconut note on the nose? Pretty cool for a Centennial & Chinook-hopped WCIPA.
Taste: This is really tasty. It has that classic West Coast IPA bitterness and dryness on the finish. The finish lingers long with tots of orange zest, grapefruit pith, and some pepperiness. Up front, it's actually a bit sweet initially with notes of honey and cereal gran initially along with pithy/citrusy and piney notes. The beer also has a nice amount of astringency and it just works for this style and this beer. It's very hoppy and it tastes like everything is balanced in the right proportions. It's so flavorful and also very crushable because it's so tasty. But because it's so tasty, you want to take your time drinking it and not have it be gone in three minutes.
Feel: Medium plus bodied with a relatively soft and somewhat oily mouthfeel. Perfectly carbonated. Very clean beer.
Overall: A delicious beer. I think that Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. would approve. Forest & Main continues to crush it. One of the many styles that they know how to do really well is West Coast IPA. Rock on, F&M!
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