Harvest Ale
Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Autumn|
Score
7.49
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Each fall, our brewhouse looks more like a greenhouse as thousands of pounds of wet hop cones arrive within hours of being picked by some of our favorite local hop growers. Acting quickly, we then load up these wet hops into what will become Harvest Ale – an impossibly aromatic and bright IPA bursting with fresh pine, melon and citrus notes. Our ode to the beauty that is the wet, American hop.
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obguthr (12524) reviewed Harvest Ale from Founders Brewing Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Honey, marigold nose. Clear amber, thin head. Potting soil, marigold. Lilly finish. Medium body, easy carbonation.
Weihenweizen (7417) reviewed Harvest Ale from Founders Brewing Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Refrigerated 12 oz. squat brown bottle, bottled on September 30, 2015, poured into a glass. Hazy light orange with small white head. Aroma is herbal hops, medium body, medium/light carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is herbal hops and bitter finish.
thorongil (8283) reviewed Harvest Ale from Founders Brewing Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
(bottle) clear bright yellow amber colour with a small beige head; creamy palatearoma of dankness, citrus; balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish
wombat23 (6046) reviewed Harvest Ale from Founders Brewing Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Shared 12 oz. bottle. Straw in color with white head. Aroma: citrus. Taste: citrus, grapefruit, pine. Fairly bitter. Very fresh.
Jow (8450) reviewed Harvest Ale from Founders Brewing Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home. Fairly golden orange pour small white head. Nose is floral and bready and juicy hops. Tastes of grapefruit, florals, bready, resinous hops, some spice. Medium to thin body. Nice finish.
joeneugs (1999) reviewed Harvest Ale from Founders Brewing Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Fresh on tap at Beer Baron. It pours a clear pale gold color with a white head. The aroma is nice and sweet with tropical fruit, pineapple, mango and a hint of grapefruit. The flavor is low in bitterness with a good amount of light toffee/toasted malt presence and floral, citrus and tropical fruity hops. Hint of cookie in the finish. Light bodied and clean. Good.
Gripweed57 (8835) reviewed Harvest Ale from Founders Brewing Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Growler from Joe Canal’s in Iselin, NJ. Brassy gold color topped by a moderate frothy beige head that yields nice lace. Fresh citrus hop nose is complex and big. First sip is bittersweet with a toasty caramel maltiness that morphs to the wonderfully complex hoppy hoe down. Juicy, fruity and citrusy with notes of grass and pine. Deliciously and arduously balanced to make this a real sensory pleasure for the tastebuds. A must have.
bookman65 (6211) reviewed Harvest Ale from Founders Brewing Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a clear golden-yellow, with thin head and lots of effervescence. Strong floral-hop aroma, with some hints of citrus and tropical fruit. Flavor is quite bitter, but very smooth, with a ton of pine-hop bite. Some citrus notes as well. Pretty good stuff.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Harvest Ale from Founders Brewing Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught at Sunset Grill, 10/19/15.
Very clear, lightly carbonated blonde liquid with a small, moderately-retained white head.
Light cascade-like notes in the nose; orange rind, lemon, bit of grapefruit and perhaps a touch of mango. Some crackery, and white dough maltiness, with a very clean feel to it and maybe a touch of light resin. No alcohol, but rather low on aroma strength.
Peanut butter, peach, orange and toffee in the flavor. I don’t know, but I’ve got to guess they had Purple Monkey Dishwasher on this line. It sucks, because my god damned IPA tastes like peanut butter. For a while, I wouldn’t rate these beers, but fuck it, if a brewery gets mad at someone rating their beer in poor condition, they can go ahead and contact the bar who can’t clean their damned lines. Sure, this is more an indictment of Sunset, which I’ve indicted my entire rating career (to no avail), but who knows, maybe enough people will figure out that this place dosent clean their lines and finally a distributor or brewery rep will say something (unlikely, I know). Anyways, I’ll try this beer again at a later point and rerate it. In the meantime, it seems pretty mild and drinkable, if a bit underwhelming in the hop department.
tsd08460 (2379) reviewed Harvest Ale from Founders Brewing Co. 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Aroma: floral, citrus, Appearance: clear gold, off-white head Taste: light sweetness, medium bitterness, Palate: medium body, creamy, average carbonation, long finish, Delicious