Firefly
Odd Side Ales in Grand Haven, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
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6.96
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Pale ale brewed with papaya and habanero. This beer provides an ideal mixture of sweet tropical flavors, piney hops, and spicy heat that will keep your taste buds tingling.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tried
on 02 Jan 2023
at 00:10
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can. Unclear golden color with white head. Aroma is resinous, exotic fruits, white sugar. Taste is exotic fruits, resin, pale malts, not so much hababero, just a bit of a heat catch. Oily mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Not bad.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Dec 2019
at 18:11
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass; no bottle dating, but is a recent release. Pours moderately cloudy golden amber color with a small dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of big papaya, peach, mango, orange zest, lemon zest, pineapple, honey, bread, floral, grass, and floral earthiness. Damn nice aromas with good complexity and balance of fruit, hop, and malt notes; with good strength. Taste of papaya, mango, peach, lemon zest, honey, bread, floral, pepper, and floral earthiness. Fair amount of pepper heat/spice on the finish; with lingering notes of papaya, mango, peach, lemon zest, honey, bread, pepper, and floral earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Good balance and complexity of papaya, pepper, hop, and malt flavors; with a great malt/spice balance and no cloying flavors after the finish. A little lacking in flavor robustness. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth and slightly sticky mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very good spiced pale ale. Good balance and complexity of papaya, pepper, hop, and malt flavors; and very smooth to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2014
at 20:00
8/10
Nice spicy sweetness. Very solid
Tried
on 13 Dec 2013
at 19:39
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Hazy straw body, thin to medium clumping cream head. Earthy, herbal, candy corn nose with diacetyl notes. Bready, caramely body with the same diacetyl notes that pretty much ruin the experience.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2013
at 19:57
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
GABF 2013
Aroma is fruity and green peppers. Flavor is bready and mild green peppers
OK, mild
Aroma is fruity and green peppers. Flavor is bready and mild green peppers
OK, mild
Tried
on 14 Oct 2013
at 19:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft at GABF. Pours cloudy gold with white head. Nose and taste of pineapple, caramel malt and hops. Lighter medium body.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Oct 2013
at 18:53
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Odd Side. I have waited a long time for this beer. Every time I show up I has just kicked the day before or something like that. Well here is my moment... Pour is a slightly hazy gold with little head and magnificent aromas of tropical fruit (citra?) firs sip reveals that this would be an excellent IPA and then the heat kicks in. I love it. It’s hotter than I expcected. Darn good stuff.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 May 2013
at 13:14
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sampled from the tap at the 15th annual MBGSF. Pours a hazy peachy gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has light citrus and tropical fruit with a bit of pine and a hint of spice in the finish. Flavor again has light tropical fruit with a bit of bitterness with a light spice and grain backbone. Really drinkable.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Aug 2012
at 18:50