Free Wave
Athletic Brewing Company in Milford, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
Non Alcoholic / Low Alcohol - Pale Ale / IPA Regular|
Score
6.17
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patrick767 (7169) reviewed Free Wave from Athletic Brewing Company 1 month ago
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.
notalush (7339) reviewed Free Wave from Athletic Brewing Company 2 months ago
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.
lore (7878) reviewed Free Wave from Athletic Brewing Company 7 months ago
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...
SVD (7137) ticked Free Wave from Athletic Brewing Company 8 months ago
Can, hazy orange beer, small head. Aroma is sweet, wort, hops, fruit. Taste is the same, sweet, malt, wort, hops. Ok
midovark (6747) reviewed Free Wave from Athletic Brewing Company 10 months ago
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.
tnkw01 (4059) reviewed Free Wave from Athletic Brewing Company 1 year ago
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.
MrSpooks (5447) reviewed Free Wave from Athletic Brewing Company 1 year ago
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.
kristincedar (7052) ticked Free Wave from Athletic Brewing Company 1 year ago
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Free Wave from Athletic Brewing Company 1 year ago
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.
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Free Wave from Athletic Brewing Company 1 year ago
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.