Chasin' Freshies (2013)
Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - West Coast Autumn Out of Production|
Score
7.26
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Like fresh powder, it’s a seize-the-moment thing. This year we've chased down Virgil Gamache Farms' famed Amarillo hops. At harvest, we rush the hops from the vine to our kettles to ensure we capture the purest, juiciest essence of the hop flower in every beer. Enjoy the bright, bold aroma and flavor that comes but once a year.
Malt: Pilsner Malt, Flaked Oats
Hops: Bravo, Fresh Amarillo
Malt: Pilsner Malt, Flaked Oats
Hops: Bravo, Fresh Amarillo
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Brewery Creek, Vancouver
Hazy blond color with creamy head. Delicate aroma of cereals, chamomile, grass, yellow polenta. Lean and dry mouthfeel; the flavor has some hay and cereals accent; strong bitterness; soft hop resins, but lacking a bit in the fruity side; balanced and long final.
Good beer, but a bit disappointing compared to expectations.
Hazy blond color with creamy head. Delicate aroma of cereals, chamomile, grass, yellow polenta. Lean and dry mouthfeel; the flavor has some hay and cereals accent; strong bitterness; soft hop resins, but lacking a bit in the fruity side; balanced and long final.
Good beer, but a bit disappointing compared to expectations.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2014
at 01:13
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle: Pale yellow with a light haze. Mountainous fluffy white head, thick sheets of lacing. Aromatic with pine resin and citrus. Not overly intense, but nice. Same goes with the taste. A bit more citrus fruit, softer on the pine, and caramel. Great hop flavor. A couple weeks past the ‘drink by’ date, but still a champ. Much improved over the Cascade batch.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2014
at 15:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours a clear, light gold-yellow, with minimal, fast-vanishing head. Floral, hop aromas. Flavor was very citrusy, at first, but with a strong, bitter hop finish to it. Feels a bit watery. This one started out strong, but got less and less notable as I drank it.
Tried
on 07 Dec 2013
at 14:41
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
I had this on tap at the John B, however it was on a tap that was previously used for Pyramid Apricot, and that fouls the lines, so this isn’t a proper rating.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Dec 2013
at 17:25
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber. Pours a hazy straw color with little head and aromas of pineapple, lemon and honey. Flavor is that. Pineapple, honey and lemon. Nothing more, nothing less. Mouthfeel is a little undercarbonated and it doesn’t move around or develop across the palate much. Good stuff.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2013
at 19:56
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22oz bomber pours with a clear gold body that supports a tight near white head of foam. The aroma offers up soft pear like cotton candy, a bit of mango lime and earthy dank hops as well as a spicy woody type note. The taste begins with sweet malts and mild apricot fruitiness. It then quickly rolls into more and more bitter hop lime and mango and a little bit of dank garlic like earthy hops. Between those notes it gets a bit resiny with hops from time to time. Pretty nice.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Nov 2013
at 12:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle @ home, picked up at Wilbur’s Fort Collins. Pours a hazy golden yellow appearance with a creamy white head. A bit chalky, grapefruity, somewhat dank, weedy, marijuana, slight lemon juicy, light tropical fruity aroma. Tangy melon, grapefruit juicy, leafy/herbal, somewhat chalky, a bit spicy hoppy flavor that finishes dry and a bit powdery. I’m not overly crazy about this but it is pretty clean and easy to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2013
at 18:44
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
draft at a sampling event. From notes. Grapefruit and floral notes. I could drink this everyday.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Oct 2013
at 22:18
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bomber bought at the fairly new Smokes and Suds in CDA, ID. Aroma is doughy, rubbery, sulfur, grapefruit, chalky chewable vitamins, floral. Pours an extremely pale slightly hazy golden hue with a two finger white head with nice retention; sudsy lace sheets the glass after dissipation. Taste is lightly bittersweet, with the bitterness lingering long after the swallow; lemony, bready flavors. Creamy mouthfeel, light carbonation for style, medium body. Not too bad, but that rubbery sulfur smell is distracting. I wonder if too much sunlight got to it.
Tried
on 29 Oct 2013
at 17:07
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bomber from the Davis Co-Op (CA). Pours translucent gold with a foamy white head. Aroma is citrus zest, almost, with earthiness. Full bodied til the carb leaves. It’s very hoppy. Very zesty. Orange. So strong that burnt rubber comes to mind. Why? Don’t know. It’s not all that bitter compared to the hugest NW IPAs, but it does not lack flavor and bitterness. I cannot recall a fresh hop beer that is so striking as this. It just bowls me over. Brilliant effing ale.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Oct 2013
at 18:51