Athletic Brewing Company Free Wave

Free Wave

 

Athletic Brewing Company in Milford, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸

  Non Alcoholic / Low Alcohol - Pale Ale / IPA Regular
Score
6.17
ABV: 0.4% IBU: - Ticks: 39
Athletic Brewing Free Wave Hazy IPA is meant for the open road. Whether you’re cruising the highway in a convertible or tracing your way up the coast on your bike, Free Wave doesn’t cut corners. A soft and hazy wheat body let the copious amounts of Amarillo, Mosaic and Chinook Hops explode with their juicy, floral and citrusy character. You’ll want to grab a few for your next road trip!
 

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5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Pours hazy yellow and has a light citrusy aroma. The flavor is citrusy and malty with a malt profile that resembles many session IPAs. Not bad. The Sierra Nevada NA hazy is better, as is Athletic’s regular NA IPA.

Tried from Can on 29 Dec 2025 at 05:29


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Can - this is probably one of the more satisfying N/A IPA's I've tried, and is authentic enough to make me forget I am drinking an N/A beer - pretty decent heft to the body - hop profile is pleasant, herbal, and citric - the malt profile is more robust than you'll typically find in an N/A and is not at all watery on the tail end, which can also often happen - this is now my go-to N/A IPA.

Tried from Can on 07 Nov 2025 at 19:07


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2.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3.5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 1 | Overall - 1

Hazy pale yellow colour, large, quickly collapsing head; aroma of rottten watery pineapple and orange, some vegetables and grapefruity notes; taste is even worse with the same notes as can be felt in the aroma; it was a mistake to buy...and also to brew...

Tried from Can from Whole Foods Market - P Street on 01 Jul 2025 at 02:33

gave a cheers!

Can, hazy orange beer, small head. Aroma is sweet, wort, hops, fruit. Taste is the same, sweet, malt, wort, hops. Ok

Tried on 13 May 2025 at 07:41


7
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6

Straight out of the can during sightseeing. It does a pretty good job in covering the unpleasant worty sweetness that’s so usual for NA beers and in doing so it doesn’t go over the top with the bitterness so it doesn’t turn into that medicine-like clusterfuck many of these NA IPAs do.

Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:17


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Light hazy gold with a two-finger head. Aroma is citrus fruit. Taste is also citrus fruit.

Tried on 21 Jan 2025 at 05:38


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5

Like most of these new-wave N/A IPAs, tastes enough like a session IPA to fool the palate, but suffers from the same issues as any session beer. Eh.

Tried on 14 Dec 2024 at 18:57


7

Tried from Can on 13 Dec 2024 at 19:00


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Have had many cans of this in varying conditions. Sadly, like any IPA, sitting on the warm shelf (which most NA beers are relegated to), and for long periods of time (ditto), is ruinous to these. Especially given the lack of alcohol as a preservative (and the heavy filtering and centrifuging). But, if you get this fresh, it's about as good as any hoppy NA beer out there, and I daresay better than many hoppy A beers. Bright and juicy at its best with pleasing bitterness. This score reflects the beer in its prime, stored properly, as it should.

Tried from Can on 27 Aug 2024 at 19:52


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

355ml can found in an ice bucket at a 4th July party (2024), Laguna Hills. Light haze in the golden body, neat white head. Citrus nose and taste, not too bad for an Alcohol Free beer.

Tried from Can on 05 Jul 2024 at 01:00