Green Flash Le Freak

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

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 from Monument in Corcord, CA. Label indicates 9.2%. Commercial description reworded slightly. Pours a hazy ripe apricot color with a decent white head that failed to persist for long. Smells like tripel candi with spice and fruity hop. Tickles my nose. Medium+ body with creamy carbonation. Flavor is quite bitter, balanced with candi, and the fruits are notable. The finish is more bitter than not, and it’s quite a taste treat. It’s definitely worth a try.

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.

Bottle (11/8/08): Slightly hazy orange bronze with a thick, frothy well-lacing off-white head. Aroma of big citrusy grapefruity hops and sweet caramel and biscuity Belgian malts and yeast. Body starts with good malty fullness and sweetness well balanced with bountiful citrus flavor and bittering hops before a crisp, slightly warming bittersweet finish.

Le Freak (which for those of you who do not speak French, translates to "The Freak") walks a fine line between Double IPA and a Belgian Triple. Is it a DIPA with Belgian yeast? Is it a Tripel with a lot of hops? Ultimatley the hoppy part win out, but there is alot of complexity, with pleny of yeasty banana and bubble gum to compliment the rough piney, citrusy hops. Good stuff. From Brawley’s, Charlotte.

Small white head with good retention and a nice droopy lace. Hazy, orange copper color. Nose is spicey, fruity, lighty tropical and yeasty, bubble gum notes as well. Body is medium, carbonation is lively, light acidity. Spicey, peppery flavors, citrus, light melon, bublegum notes with some light sweet malts , lightly grainy, nice fruitiness. Lightly sweet finish with a strong hop bite. Interesting, may age well?? Bottle procured @statelineliquors

Bouteille de 22 oz partagée lors d’une dégustation Ratebeer Montréal chez Goldorak. Arôme: Odeur de pamplemousse avec une pointe de poire et d’houblons résineux. Apparance: La couleur est blonde orangée voilée. Présence d’un mince col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût d’agrumes et d’épices avec une pointe d’alcool. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement huileuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Légère présence d’épices en arrière goût. (Rating #2394)

Beautiful golden soft pour with a large, frothy white head. Satisfying blend of green, grassy, dry hop cones with a slight saison funk, that pillowy yeast with hints of cobwebs and cheese, it works well here. Bright and flavorful, rich and frothy and soft on the palate, hoppy and bitter for sure, but also delicate, with the hop flavors complimented very well by the sticky but dry cheese-feet yeast note (still quite mild). I like it.