Farm Island Organic IPA
Peak Organic Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Shipyard Brewing CompanyIPA Regular
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Score
6.33
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Certified Organic
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pours gold with a white head. It smells of resinous hops with a little citrus. It tastes of earthy hops bitterness. Moderately bitter. Bready, grainy malt. Medium body. Fairly good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can from Trader Joe's in Novi. Pours a clearish gold with a full 2 fingers of foam that lingers. Malty nose with some oxidation and citrus peel. Palate is similar, right at the bb date, so definitely not in prime condition. Will revisit.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
12 ounce can from Trader Joe’s in Princeton, NJ. Hazy medium gold color. Large foamy dense beige head. Sharp citrus hop aroma has grassy notes. Bittersweet malt is balanced by a dank citrus hop profile. Notes of lemon pith and pine. Dry bitter finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can, from Trader Joe's. Pours clear dark golden with large foamy off-white head, very faint piney aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter piney taste, thin body, long medium bitter finish. Smooth and easy to drink.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12 oz Can, drank at my Son-in-Laws in California on 20th Dec 2019. Misty golden body, white topping. Hop centric with a citrus leaning in both the aroma and taste, aided and abetted by some piney, resinous hop action. Nothing too strong or overpowering, but pleasant enough.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a nice amber from a can. Pine/resin aroma and flavor, not bad. Good beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Crisp copper and bronze coloured body with a two centimetre tall tan head - frothy and long-lasting. Aroma of grass, hay, flowers, grain, candy and some mellow astringent hops that don't seem too bitter. Medium-bodied; Strong grassy and very herbal flavour with a deep medicinal and astringent metallic note with a touch of grain and light sugars that show through the floral and bitter hop notes. Aftertaste shows some light white grape notes with a distinct sweetness, but much more pronounced bitterness from the grass, hay, grain and slightly resinous hops that are pervasive here. Overall, a decent enough IPA that shows much stronger bittering hops than I expected, but the light sweetness and grainy flavours balance outw ell - a good beer, and at this price point, slightly better. Definitely not worth trying to find to get the IPA, but very good, if you can grab it when it's so cheap! I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Trader Joe's in Clarendon (Arlington), Virginia on 29-April-2019 for US$1,34 sampled at my house here in Washington on 28-May-2019, just less than a month later.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Can. Slightly hazy amber beer with a cream head. Light grapefruit and lightly sweet aroma. Grapefruit and pine flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and pine linger.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Can pour into nonic pint glass from Trader Joe's, Bedford, NH. Appearance is deeply hazy orange yellow with fair sparkle at the edges of the glass, massive 5-finger width white foamy head with good retention (wish it had been less since it was a bit annoying to wait) and light soapy lacing. Aroma is mix of sweet and tart citrus (much like the session version), background cracker pilsner malts. Taste is slightly dominant cracker malt over more tart than sweet citrus. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with dominant frothy texture, lively carbonation and weak finish with dry lingering bitterness. Overall, many drawbacks here. More malty than hoppy, head is massive, texture and carbonation are off. I'd prefer the session. Not good.