Green Flash Le Freak
A bottle of Le Freak Ale from Green Flash Brewing Company in Vista, California, at Håndverkerstuene in Oslo, Norway.
As the name implies, Le Freak is a freak of a beer made by mixing two very different styles - the San Diego-style imperial pale ale and the Belgian-style abbey trippel. At 9.2% abv this is no small freak!
It poured a slightly hazy golden orange color with a white head. Wonderful aroma; caramel, fruit, spicy yeasts and a dose of hops. More Belgian than pale ale me thinks. It had a creamy mouthfeel with stingy carbonation. The taste was fruity too, with an underlying caramel sweetness, plenty of spiciness and some bittering hops in the finish. A very interesting beer, I really enjoyed drinking it. And it reminded me a little of AleSmith's Horney Devil, another favorite from San Diego :-)
Green Flash Le Freak
A bottle of Le Freak Ale from Green Flash Brewing Company in Vista, California, at Håndverkerstuene in Oslo, Norway.
As the name implies, Le Freak is a freak of a beer made by mixing two very different styles - the San Diego-style imperial pale ale and the Belgian-style abbey trippel. At 9.2% abv this is no small freak!
It poured a slightly hazy golden orange color with a white head. Wonderful aroma; caramel, fruit, spicy yeasts and a dose of hops. More Belgian than pale ale me thinks. It had a creamy mouthfeel with stingy carbonation. The taste was fruity too, with an underlying caramel sweetness, plenty of spiciness and some bittering hops in the finish. A very interesting beer, I really enjoyed drinking it. And it reminded me a little of AleSmith's Horney Devil, another favorite from San Diego :-)