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Sebago Fryes Leap IPA

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763.21/5.03.17/5.05.2%27.4Shaker, Tulip
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We have followed the British tradition and created Frye’s Leap IPA which is one of the hoppiest beers in Maine at 55 IBU’s. Brewed with American 2-row, caramel 20L & 60L Highly hopped with Cascade, Centennial and Nugget and aggressively dry hopped with a mixture of Centennial and Cascade. Frye’s Leap IPA is an American-style India Pale Ale. It has a strong hop flavor and a medium body. Frye’s Leap IPA is light golden in color with a fruity hoppiness that comes from extra dry hop conditioning. The IPA is perfect on a summer day it pairs well with spicy foods, vinaigrettes and grilled vegetables. It also is great with oysters, clams and chilled soups.
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 GonZoBeeR (2160), ste-Eulalie, Quebec, Canada
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Sep 23, 2006  
Aroma:light bitterness nose... Appearance:clear gold,good lacing white head... Flavor:strong soap bitterness....


 Dickinsonbeer (3449), Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Sep 21, 2006  
Pours a deep gold, lots of chill haze, and a fluffy off white head and nice lace. Aroma is initially of fruity esters, citrus and orange peel lightly yeasty. Citrusy flavor, light pale malt- cracker-like and bready- and a nice bitterness. Somewhat harsh, but still easy drinking.


 da845 (139), new york, New York, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/515/20
Sep 1, 2006  
A bit like a pale ale or typical maine summer brew with a bit more flavor. A little bitter and sour but nothing too bad. Great for a maine warm summer day.


 BigBen2120 (688), Derry, New Hampshire, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Aug 8, 2006    Updated: Jan 29, 2007
ORIGINAL RATE (on-tap, summer 06): Gold body, thin head. Not much of a scent to this one... sweet? Yeast maybe? Tastes sweet for an IPA, but has hops plentifuly, particularly in the finish. Medium bodied and well ballanced. A very decent IPA.

RE-RATE (bottle, winter 07): Murky but somewhat translucent amber-orange body with over a half an inch off off-white head that leaves a fair bit of lacing. Smells strong piney and citrusy. Piney and citrusy hop overwealmingly dominate this beer, with only just enough malt to support it and very little other apparent flavor atributes. Flavor lingers afterward, as it’s just a bit sticky. Medium-bodied. A surprisingly hoppy IPA, very good. Also, this is a rare beer that I think might just be better bottled than it is on tap.


 kumite56 (461), Cordova, Tennessee, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/515/20
Jul 29, 2006  
THis is a good IPA and is well balanced. Nice appearance with moderate lacing and nice dark goldern color toped with a frothy white head. Aroma is of citrus hopps. Nice malty initial taste with a significant hoppy bitter balance in the finish.


 wickedpete (627), Lexington Park, Maryland, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/51/101/54/20
May 16, 2006  
Just unpleasant to drink. All hops, no character. It’s like this one fell off the bitter tree and hit every branch on the way down.


 ruggedman (619), Portland, Maine, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/103/512/20
Apr 13, 2006  
Pours a fizzy amber with a whiteish soft head. Citrus hops in the nose with a slight hint of floral. The taste is a little uneven, there’s a bit of a poor mix of the cascade hops that make this beer not what it could be. They add too many hops in the bittering cycle and not enough in the beginning. Gives the beer a shallow feel. It’s ok...don’t get me wrong I’d drink it again...but it’s not anywhere near a good IPA.


 porterhouse (1152), Alna, Maine, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/103/59/20
Mar 3, 2006  
(Bottle from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/maine/freeport/ target=blank>Derosier’s) Pours a murky yellowish amber with a big pillowy off-white head. Aroma is pretty strongly malty plus some hops; as head receded I picked up mild skunkiness. Poor lacing. Mouthfeel nondescript. Taste is pretty much just unpleasantly bitter, barely any hops or fruitiness at all. Sort of had a B.O. quality as well, also some grassiness. This wasn’t much of an IPA, seemed like a poor amateur attempt at something.



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