Chasin' Freshies (2012)
Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Autumn Out of Production|
Score
6.84
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Best by Dec 18, 2013.
Pours a straw yellow with a 2 finger head of foam and has some nice lacing.
It smells of floral hops with some notes of citrus, grapefruit and more of a lemon. Malt sweetness is there but light.
Very juicy hops greet my taste buds from the get go. Lots of floral hoppiness minus a real bitter bite with lemon citrus and a light biscuit malt backbone.
Medium bodied though at times it feels fullish, good carbonation.
Overall, a nice brew that just misses my comfort zone by a tick as the juiciness of the fresh hops wears on me as the glass empties. Definitely worthy of a try though.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
1st December 2012
Surprisingly pale gold beer, hazy and with a tidy white head. Palate is smooth and light and semi dry with fine carbonation. Interesting IPA! Smooth minty pine. A little banana ester, slightly spicy. Trace of orange citrus and pith, with mild grapefruit. Finishes dry with more minty pine. Hugely drinkable!
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Chasin' Freshies (2012) from Deschutes Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Crisp, very light golden coloured body with a thick, four centimetre tall white head and a honey glow - very nice, albeit light colour. Aroma of malt, alcohol, corn, coriander seed, hay, grass, and yes - a tiny bit of hops - not as much as expected - perhaps just the dry hopping is lacking? Medium to an Odd-Full-bodied; Strong malt flavour up front with a very interesting hop flavour right afterwards, more of grassy and resinous hops, but with a big full body that goes down like syrup. Aftertaste shows only a bit of the hops, mostly malt with cardboard mixed in, some lighter hay and grass notes and a hint of syrupy sweetness on the end. Overall, a very interesting beer - not like most fresh hop I/APAs, but more of a syrupy, resinous APA that doesn’t show enough complexity to be considered great or even good. Drinkable for sure, but not worth the money or space in the suitcase. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Texas Liqour in Carlsbad, California on 19-March-2013 for US$6.99 sampled at home in Washington on 24-March-2013. Sampled within five days of purchasing the beer - albeit the best by date on the bottle is 27-December, it seems like the store had it for quite a while.
Sledutah (12313) reviewed Chasin' Freshies (2012) from Deschutes Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
22oz bottle picked up at Texas Liquor in Carlsbad
Appearance: Cloudy straw yellow with a big white head and some lacing
Aroma: Coriander, berries, wheat and citrus
Taste: Floral, berries and citrus
A nice beer, refreshing flavors.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle: Golden color with a fluffy off-white head. Mild nose, florals and herbal. More florals, earthy, and herbal taste. Not the ripe, pungent hoppiness that I was hoping for.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
650 ml bottle. Pours a clear yellow/gold with medium head. Aromas of light pine and lemon. Flavors of peach, pine, citrus, and a bit of phenol. Expecting more...
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Chasin' Freshies (2012) from Deschutes Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Clear golden pour with a medium foamy white head that evaporates steadily. Partial rings of lacing on the glass. The aroma is hoppy with notes of grapefruit and malt. Medium body with flavors of grassy hops, citrus and biscuit malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a citrus hops aftertaste. Decent overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bomber at the Beerhive. Pours a clear amber color with a medium white head. An odd nose of green hops and something like a wit beer. A light herbal flavor, no robust hop flavors, more biscuit and dry earthiness, light grass. Smooth. Decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
22 oz bomber purchased at Royal in Kansas City, Missouri. Best before 12/27/12 on label. The pour is light haze golden, with a two inch clear white head. The aroma is soft floral, hay, some herbal lemon, and some citrus rind. Fresh interesting nose. The taste is really big, and has an odd menthol citrus rind right away. Under that is some honeydew fruit sweetness, herbal, grass, and some ester yeast in the back. The palate is medium bodied with soft carbonation and a drier finish. The flavors really surprised me, much bolder (and odder) than the nose prepared me for. Well made, just not entirely my cup of beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
22oz bomber pours crystal clear gold with light tan head of foam. The aroma has floral malt sweetened notes, floral hop bitterness and a sense of kiwi fruit. Interesting taste as I get sugary sweetness, bold bitter floral hops and filled in there sort of between those notes, that are at odds with one another, are malt sweetened mango like tropical fruitiness. The sweetness, the hop bitterness and somewhat sweet tropical fruitiness go pretty well together. This wasn’t stellar but fairly enjoyable but I’m not sure I would buy it again.