Green Flash Le Freak

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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Excelent beer! One of my all time top 5. Full bodied an with great aroma. The yeasts give it personallity and the hops make it a winner

2009 bottle, I’m told: Musty pear, apricot, and wheat malt, surprisingly bready for Green Flash. Hazy orange, medium yellow lacing head. Apple, shortbread, grapefruit flavor with hints of banana and pear as well. Lemon zest and apricot finish. Alcohol is well concealed. Fantastically complex, with ill defined transitions. Muddled, but oh so wonderfully delicious. Extremely unique. I swear I thought I rated this before, but I never remember anything tasting quite like this, and this is memorable. Maybe this is one of those beers that absolutely must be aged.

Pours a slightly hazed apricott color w/ a tall creamy head. Good head retention and lacing. Aromas of bitter sweet citrus and tropical spice. Full nectar w/ superb carbonation for a soft, semi creamy texture. This brew has a high pulp thickness w/ a very strict aspirin bittering component that sticks like a rabid ground squirl on a pigs back. Flavors are topical and citrusy w/ a fresh squeezed mild sweetness that tries to tame this bitter beast. The finish is long and bitter sweet. It really leaves an impression on me.

Bronze, orange-ish tone, strong but not overwhelming, taste wins over kick. Belgian comes through, pour from a bottle to a glass, great head on each pour, drink this now!

Strong and pleasant floral, yeast, and coriander aromas. Pours a cloudy pale orange colour. There is a thick white head that dissapates into a thin layer of foam. The hops can definitely be tasted, but the beer also has a medium sweetness to it. Medium bodied with lively carbonation. Slightly bitter finish. Overall a fantastic and interesting beer!

The aroma is lively with herbaceous hops. Smells more like a farmhouse ale than an Imperial IPA, but this is definitely a compliment. It has a reddish-gold color and is very cloudy. The head is lingering, pillowy and white. The first flavor yields all of the grassy hoppiness that you’d expect in an Imperial IPA, yet it’s far from overwhelming. The beer also does a wonderful job of masking it’s 9.2% ABV. While it has tons of hop flavor, it doesn’t have a harsh bitterness. The bitter flavors and hay-like malts linger for a while. This is an incredibly well-done American take on a Trippel.

Backlog spring 2011 Large bottle at Amundsen Golden color, ok foam Nice belgian aromas Full body & complexity It was love at first sight

i can’t stand to see a robot cry, let’s watch T.V.... ever drank a whole bottle of NyQuil just for shits and gigs? ... wheres the wick? $125 for rockstar shit? ... and who is dumb enough to buy a fast food sandwich for $8?... Le Freak, man, glad to try this in my neck of the fat sucked wheather mans neighborhood ... lots of belgian honey hops... damn frigidy good lacing and coco white head ... parole officer says i need an upgrade, or they won’t give me back my stabbin knife... wow, fantastic brew here.. bitter , sweeet, balanced like a eraser on a pencil erasing a doodle of a naked man at that porno dudes house ... so so easy to drink... smooth, enjoyable, the real mccoy ... at&t, ever been to brussels, cuz i want to kick your arse... quite an amazingly enjoyable and crisp bitter example of the hop (and the genius thinking out of the box yeast examples in this brew)and the playful sensation of bitterness on the tongue and complete coating of the trap... ballack, what a goal, but roons was tap-rific! ... i may not make sense to you the reader, who reads my crap anyway, but this is a great beer, great bitterness, smooth as silk, aggressive yet retarded kitten like... buy this if you see it, me personally will be buying quite a few more bottles of this wonderful elixer, or butt sex...

22oz. from trade with GMCC (Gabe)...Thanks man! Aroma is loaded with florals, sweet citrus fruits, spices, and yeast...Rivals Two-Hearted as the best beer Ive ever smelled. Pours a nice amber with a very thin white head. Flavor is unbelievable! Every sip is loaded with different spices, the perfect amount of hops, different citrus fruits, and some grasses...the unbelievable smell is impossible to ignore as you take every sip. The Belgian Strong - IPA hybrid is genius! Leaves a bitter aftertaste and a weird mouthfeel...this is definately the only downside to this beer. Overall...this beer is just fantastic...I need to find some more in this style because its a damn shame I cant buy it in my home state...Cant thank Gabe enough for sending it my way!

On tap at Cookie. Complex, and very well balanced. Aromas of caramel, flowers, nuts, bread, and citrus. Taste is sweet, with sour and bitter notes, and very long length. Palate is creamy, and full bodied. Amber, cloudy, with a frothy head.