Cosmic Bloom
Foundation Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Rotating|
Score
7.12
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Grains
Pilsner, Pale, Wheat
Hops
Galaxy, Amarillo, Centennial, Azacca
Yeast
House British
ABV
5.5%
IBUs
67
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at the brewery. It's a cloudy, golden-light brown with no sparkle, thin cap of white head with fair retention and nice lacing. Aroma is a subtle mixture of grainy malt and light fruit. Taste is citrus, pear, pine, mild fruit and malt backbone. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, more conventional APA than all the flavors in the description. Good strength of aroma and taste for 5.8%.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Hazy medium orange-brown body, medium tight off-white head. Nose tart, lime and white grape. Pillowy-soft body, again mostly grape, grapenuts cereal, and grapeskin. Light, cerealy body. Solid, but $3.50/can is steep.
nimbleprop (16712) reviewed Cosmic Bloom from Foundation Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
16oz can pours a pulpy orange, clumpy white head. Nose is very inviting, super ripe stone fruits, wet melon, grassy notes, perfume too. Flavor is interesting, it's a degree or two off standard NEIPA, there is absolutely a weizen note lurking, banana maybe, chewed bubblegum definitely, melon, pineapple now, peach cobbler. Finishes pillowy. Super drinkable. Makes you want more.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Cosmic Bloom from Foundation Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Canned 8/10/17, drunk 8/12/17.
Super-pale, platinum blonde body shows light haze and a small, white head with med-low retention.
Orange juice, mango, juicy pineapple are all quite promising and alluring, up front. Add some fuzzy lime, passion fruit and more tropical character and the possibilities seem endless here. No resin, heavy grapefruit or alcohol and only sparse cracker-like malt.
Tons of tangerine, pineapple, mango and white wine in the mouth. Good, restrained bitterness. They do get a good complexity here from all the hops and it's not just another juice and honey rendition of the NE pale ale. Great passion fruit notes give tartness, earthiness and zesty spice on the end. With extended warming, it's just bursting forth with passion fruit character. Really evolves in to a glass of complex hop juice (albeit enjoyable hop juice). But I gotta ask, where's the beer? There's almost no beer character. Just a hop tincture.
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Cosmic Bloom from Foundation Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
28th August 2017
Level 42 Bottlshare. Thanks to Leighton. White haze on this gold beer, good pile cream colour head. Airy palete, semi-dry, good fine carbonation. Fluffy malts, light dry creamy sweetness. Good hop spice. Mild pine. Light spicy citrus. Floral citrus. Modest tropical fruits. More hop spice. A touch of fresh orange citrus. Light spicy finish. Nice.
CLW (16859) reviewed Cosmic Bloom from Foundation Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
16 oz. can thanks to Willrunforbeer on the share. Not really fair to drink this AFTER the four Trillium brews we had tonight but.... Hazy bright yellow appearance. Aroma is mild fruit, bready malt, and weak floral hints. Yeah, seems a little flat thing a canning date of 9-18-17. Maybe if I am in Portland I will re-sample on draft. In the can it just seems lack-luster. To be fair, no brewing flaws or anything off. We just drink real high end. We are privileged beer drinkers.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Poured from can thanks Willrunforbeer dated 9/18/17 hazy light lemon with a thin white head. Aromas of grain citrus pith light floral hops. Taste follows aroma with a thin mouth feel amd a lingering bitterness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours hazy, pale pear into a shaker. Bright white soapy head with medium retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Pineapple and papaya aromas. Dry with sweet pineapple and yeast upfront turning to a mild pith finish.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Cosmic Bloom from Foundation Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Sample at the taproom. Cloudy straw color with a medium thick ivory white head that diminishes gradually to a film. Partial rings of lace. Aroma of stone fruit, dank hops and malt. Light to medium body with flavors of pithy citrus, herbal hops and biscuit malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a lingering fruity hop aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Cosmic Bloom from Foundation Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Pours blonde, small white head. smell is intense, pine, hop, bitter, bit malty. Taste is sharp, mild bitter, very floral and intense fruit, mild pine.� Nice.