Green Flash Le Freak

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

Draft. A hazy amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of sweet malt, lemon, grass, peaches, and a bit of brettanomyces. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, peaches, lemongrass, and other spices, as well as lighter notes of alcohol, leading to a lightly tart finish.

Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of fiver29. Pours a hazy and opaque golden with an off-white head. Aroma of yeast and aroma hops - very fresh. Medium body, fruit and yeast and a solid hoppy finish. 120609

From tap at the brewery. Pours hazy orange with a creamy slight off-white. Aroma is mild yeasty and caramel malty. Light spiced too. Spiced and yeasty favour. Smooth caramel and spiced providing just enough edge. Ends mild hoppy and slight spiced.7-4-8-4-15=3.8

From bottle, blind #10. Pours hazy orange with a slowly collapsing white head. Dry peppery yeasty and slight hoppy aroma. Sweet, peppery, hoppy, spiced and caramelish base flavoured. Medium dry and orange fruity to grapefruity hoppy next to the lasting saison yeast impression. Dry and peppery flavoured finish, smooth with a small edge. Nice one.8-3-8-4-16=3.9

Bottle 1pt. 6fl.oz. @ home.
Clear medium orange color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, moderate to light heavy hoppy, perfume, orange, moderate yeasty, coriander. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light heavy bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090128]

bottled@Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Golden colour, small beige head. Aroma is hops, quite much Belgian tripel with fruity and lots of sweet fruityness. Flavour is at first veyr typical fruity and yeasty Belgian tripel with a big kicking grassy, flowery and fruity kick in the sftertaste. Very pleasant stuff.

Draught at Falling Rock. Clear amber coloured with a small off white ehad. Fruity aroma of spices, hops and pine needles with notes of barnyard. Fruity flavour of hops and pine needles with notes of spices and yeast. Spicy and hoppy finish. 7-3-7-4-14 Rerate : Bottle #10 at Papsø’s blindtasting. Hazy golden coloured with a huge white head. Fruity aroma of spices and brett. Fruity flavour of spices, vanilla, brett, hops and oak with notes of grape fruits and hops. Dry hoppy finish. 7-3-8-4-16

Date: 09/13/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brusin Ales, Asheville NC

Appearance: hazy gold, wispy white head, streaks of drippy lace,
Aroma: sweet crystal malt aroma, lots of spicyness, light fruity citrus,
Flavor: rich malt flavor, crystal sweetness, lots of hops, lots of spicy phoenolics mixing with the spicy hops,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Sweet, sugary aroma with pear esters and thick caramel. Bitter, slightly fruity, but then spoiled by an icing sugar fruitiness. Belgian yeast and Green Flash aren’t getting along right now. Too bad. That stuff’s got to attenuate better to make the stuff drinkable.