Green Flash Le Freak

Brewed by Green Flash Brewing Co.
Style: Abbey Tripel
Vista, California USA

decaturstevo’s 2008 Zapit Tasing Tasting. Sample from a bottle thanks to Beer_Hawk. Yellow pale color with a thin small bubbled head that clings to a small sheet on to top of the brew. Clove nose, dry grassy hoppiness. Taste is more clove spiciness, and powerful pepper, lots of herbal hops.

Bomber from Country Club Liquors; Nose of flowery hops, coriander, and ginger; hazy orange with a big yellowish, glass-lacing, off-white head; flavor is lightly bitter, with peppery spiciness, caramel, and some light fruity notes; finish lightly bitter!

Pours a hazy bright orange with bubbly froathy white head. Aroma is citrusy and sour but also has a lot of typical belgian yeast aromas - coriander, dough and lemon. Flavor is very very different. Combines a lot of hop bitterness and grapefruit flavors then bubblegum and banana and becomes sweeter. Definitely worth a try just because it is very unique.

draft @ Najas - cloudy, deep orange with foamy white head; in your face bitterness in both aromas and flavors; too much for me as it overwhelmed everything; drinks much stronger than 9%; out of balance and quite harsh; this was a strange beer and not what i expected

Draught at Falling Rock Taphouse. Clear amber - white head. Light sourness, bretty, grape, citric, fruity, light roasted notes, knækbrød, honey sweetness, high drinkability, nice sweetness.....Again: #10 - Amerikaner Blind-Smagning 12-Jun-2009 hos Papsoe. Bottle. (7/3/7/4/16).

draft at coles- this is without a doubt my favorite of the new ’’Belgian Style IPAs’’, mainly because this beer was not overwhelmed by the yeast/spice flavors of the belgian strain- rather the same hop brightness and flavor so often found in gf beers was dominant here, as they should be in an ipa. well done. re-rate- pizza plant, 5/1/09- much of the belgian notes i stated were restrained, were far more dominant this time around muting the hop presence- still an occasional thing, but not outstanding.

Pours deep gold into a tulip. Bright white head recedes leaving spot lacing to hug rim. Pineapple and apricot aromas. Crisp with upfront biscuit and pepper with a lasting grapefruit finish.

22 oz bottle, served in tulip. Pours a clear amber that clouds when you reach the sediment on the bottle floor. Sizeable off-white head fades slowly, leaving little lacing. Medium carbonation. Aromas of bananas, peppery spice, yeast, and citrus. I pick up more of the trippel in the aroma than the IPA, but there is a hop crispness there. Medium-bodied mouthfeel with soft carbonation. The trippel shows in the flavor right up front, where you get a hint of the alcohol and banana flavors prevalent in the style, but it turns to a puckering grapefruit rind, with a bitter, slightly piney, lingering finish. I’m not a huge fan, but have never been partial to heavily hopped belgian-style ales, as the style is a bit confusing to the palate, and I don’t think the flavors blend well. An interesting beer, but not something I’ll seek out.