Freetail Hopothesis F

Brewed by Freetail Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
San Antonio, Texas USA

Serve in Shaker, Snifter

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This fine offering from Freetail (love the label, by the way) has a dark orange colored body and a white head. The aroma is soft, but sharp with pine dominating... perhaps a slightly bready malt presence is also providing a nice balance. In the mouth it’s really a surprise and not what you’d expect from the nose. Sharp bitterness is up front, followed by an alcoholic, syrup-like creaminess. Bitterness and doughy sweetness persists into the finish. It’s soft, well-hopped, and sharp. Nice. Harsh, yes, but only slightly so.

(22oz bomber) clearish rich amber, soapy offwhite bubbles. Nose is very tropical, peach, mango, pineapple, light dank, sweaty. Taste is candied citrus peel, onion, grapefruit, creamy, dry palate finish, bitter linger.

Tap at brewpub. Clear amber with a thin cap head. Piney resinous aroma of hops, some grapefruit, and some citric sweetness on the nose. Strong flavorful citric hoppy taste of grapefruits and orange rind, floral hops, a little pine, with a big load of caramel malty sweetness. Big, flavorful, and hoppy with a tamed bitterness. Just lovely.

Tap at Freetail. The look is clear, amber in color, and beige head. The smell is heavily pine , citrus, lemon, alcohol, hops, zingy, and cleaning solution. The taste is pine, grass, hops, caramel, biting, and pretty good.

Copper in color with a good sized off-white head. Aroma is of leaves, rye, must, earth, dirt, hemp, VERY herbal, dank, some citrus. Taste is pine, earth, herbal hops, grass, caramel, hemp, with light citrus and mango.

on Draft @ Freetail .. . deep amber .. . lots of foam .. lacing is hours .. . quite a malt forward beer, some sap and pine greens too .. . pretty good but i need less malt, more hops .. . . Every sentence is a sexual innuendo if you think long and hard about it.

Tap flight at the brewery. Very dark amber pour. Looks more like a Barleywine or autumnal brown ale. Medium Earthy hop aroma. Taste is resin, circus peanut candy, and more bitterness. It’s good but more layered than blended. I wonder if. Few months of aging the key would bring the flavors together more so than they are right now.

Wow, the aroma is wonderfully complex. I smell lots of fruit, strawberries, rasberries, melons, juicy citrus- actually get an orange-strawberry-banana juice blend type of smell here and there, but in a danky hop kinda way. Delicious and almost as good to drink.