Green Flash Le Freak

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

Tap @ The Gate in English Pint glass for some reason. Hazy golden with puffy lasting head and lace. Hoppy sweet vanilla yeasty lemon pastry aroma, Sweet vanilla marshmallow with melon and very spicy hoppy finish. Medium body and medium carbo. Excellent Belgian soft mouthfeel. Well hidden alcohol. Delicious and deceptively strong.

Pours a golden orange with fizzy white head. Bready malt, candy sugar, orange peel, banana, belgian yeast, and floral hops. Herbal with notes of spice and coriander. The bitterness of the IIPA doesn’t really come through, but the alcohol is fairly well hidden.

22oz bottle from hophead22.... a cloudy orange caramel brown pour with a moderate soapy white head... aroma was mustiness that coincides with orange peel and tropical pacific northwest hops.... flavors had a medium degree of grapefruit rind bitterness. pretty astringent through the finish and beyond which ultimately became off-putting. some sweetness to start but quickly turns into a bitter beast.

Bomber brought back from my CA trip. I had this at Hamiltons, but I was too blitzed to rate it. Pours a nice translucent orange amber, with a nice off white head and hypnotizing carbonation. Aroma of wheat malts and Belgian phenols. Medium bodied with average carbonation and a slight dryness on the palate. Flavor of wheat malts, candi sugar, honey, pear and white pepper. Not overly attenuated, but there is some sweetness there. Semi dry and bitter finish, with the alcohol only slightly detectable. Not bad, but lacks some cohesiveness.

22 oz bottle. Pours a hazy golden orange honey with a medium sized white head. Aroma of coriander, herbal tea, bubble gum and candied sugar. Taste of bubblegum, coriander, candied sugar, tea and spice.

Clear gold with almost no head. Effervescent hop aroma with bubble gum and corriander. Taste contains some of the above , with an unexpected, stinging tannic bitterness. Finish is estery, with rubbing alcohol aftertaste, and lingering bitterness. $10/22oz

On tap at Smoken Joes in the southside. Slightly cloudy but for the most part this is a pale lager looking beer. Lots of sparkling carbonation is clinging to the inside of the glass. Yep, smells like a trippel, candylike volatile aroma. Very thin white head. Quite strong on the initial onslaught but possibly not as strong tasting as many of the other american versions of belgie strongs I’ve had. Certainly does not taste like a 9%’er. IMHO could have a little less alky impact but then it would not be a strong ale, would it? Overall, could be a little more refined like most of it’s civilized bretherin. I would say this is more like a trippel than a strong ale. Nice transparent lacing. Did not taste hardly any hop in this brew, in spite of it’s name. Just had a hommel strong ale, much more enjoyable than this.

22oz. pours hazy golden with small white head. aroma is earthy, spicy, and some floral hops. mouthful is dominated by spice and then followed up by a nice bitter hop finish.