Brew Free Or Die IPA
Overall: 7.6/10 by 1 dude
Dudes: 7.6/10
Trend: 7.6/10 over past 5 reviews 
Style: American IPA
ABV: 7.00%
IBU: 70
Seasonal: Year Round
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- scot from Oswego, IL
- Date reviewed: Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 18:31:31
- $1.99 for 12 oz. bottle
- 856 beers rated with a 7.8 average rating
Date tasted: August 21, 2010
Color: Gold
Rating Breakdown
Aroma: 8 (25%)
Taste: 7 (25%)
Look: 9 (15%)
Drinkability: 7 (35%)
Overall: 7.6
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Pours clear with a huge amount of white, fluffy foam. Retention is quite good with lacing beginning before the glass even tips: sticky and web like.
Aroma of sweet caramel and toasted malt with honey fill the nose quickly. The hop profile is fruity and somewhat tropical: lemon, orange, etc. Some pine resin is there too.
Taste is caramel malt all the way through, including honey, that leaves a sweetness, almost cloying in the finish, thick, and syrupy. Toasted malt is there too while the fruity nose is lost. Not much of a bitter aftertaste, maybe none.
This is a medium mouth feel with light carbonation. There is a syrupy feel there too.
This beer has some good qualities. Easy to drink but I can't say refreshing as the sweetness is over done as stays with me. I would have it again, but there are a ton of west coast IPAs that would quench my thirst before I ever thought of having one of these. Enjoy!