Free Wave
Athletic Brewing Company in Milford, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
Non Alcoholic / Low Alcohol - Pale Ale / IPA Regular|
Score
6.03
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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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5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Can: Poured a hazy/cloudy murky color ale with a medium size off-white foamy head with good retention and light lacing. Aroma of citrusy hops notes with light grainy notes. Taste is also a mix of citrusy hops notes with some grainy notes and light bitterness. Body is pretty full for style with good carbonation. Grainy off taste kinda ruined this one for me.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Jan 2024
at 02:26
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours a murky yellow colour and a small white-ish head with little retention. Aroma's: dank and piney hops, a bit tangerine. Retronasal it's dank, light fruity, light bitter. Flavour is fairly bitter and grainish. A bit thin on the palate. Finish is grainish and above moderate bitter. Not too bad.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Oct 2023
at 01:33
6.5/10
RB 3.2 = 6.4 tick
Tried
from Can
on 18 Sep 2023
at 01:09
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12oz can. Hazy orange golden pour, lasting white foamy head. Light malty, bready aroma, citrus. Taste is malty with a faint hit of orange peel. Abrupt finish.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Sep 2023
at 22:00
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Ever so slightly hazy golden and straw coloured body, with a large, three centimetre tall soapy off-white head that breaks down quickly, above the 70 per cent opaque body. Aroma of light citrus, soap, grass, hay and flowers, with a dash of yeast and bread noticeable, too. Light-bodied; Slight hoppy bitterness noticeable up front wiht a nice dryness and even piney flavour, without much malt at all, and almost a rice-like finish which just amplifies the hops and the associated bitterness, too, with the drying notes very strong at the end. Aftertaste is enjoyable with some good bitterness coming from the alpha acids of the hops, no sweetness at all, and no real yeastie or bready finishes, with a faint dose of grapefruit and lemon zest, but nice throughout and actually bitter - nice! Overall, a good example of a Non-Alcoholic IPA that, I feel is more PNW (or pure West Coastie at least) than New England, but with the 'haze' it's easy to over-simplify, but this is worthy of a drink if you don't want any alcohol, but do want a bitter IPA! Thanks Dad for getting me this one - a nice drink, for sure! I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased by my Dad at Total Wine in Alexandria (Potomac Yard), Virginia on 02-April-2022 for US$10,99/six pack, packaged on 09-February-2022 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 06-April-2022 - Thanks Dad! 8,4,7,3,15
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jul 2023
at 20:27
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 7
Overall 6
Can from Trader Joe's. Pours a hazy straw gold with a full two fingers of foam that lingers. Great lacing down the glass. Light pineapple and grapefruit aromas on the nose. More of the same on the palate. Light, but nice carbonation. Drying finish but a little muted. I think I prefer the regular IPA better.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jul 2023
at 16:32
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 4
Can. Pours hazy yellow. Grain, vegetal, carrot, stewed turnip, orange, Bouillon cubes. Medium body. Bad.
Tried
from Can
on 16 May 2023
at 22:15
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Poured just like you'd expect to, decent head to it, good yellow golden color. Quite impressed with this, bitter hop leaf. Light orange juice. Not as good as the real thing, but holds up just enough to be honest. Wow, looks like the ratings jump between acceptable (3ish to hate it). I'll put myself into the former category. I liked it enough. I've found I've liked having a few NA beers during the heat of a summer day and the trend away from IPAs below 7% is more than a bit frustrating.
Tried
on 16 May 2023
at 01:19
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tried
on 14 May 2023
at 19:55
6/10
Hazy golden body medium fizzy white head. Citrus fruity aroma. Citrus fruity flavor. Medium light body moderate carbonation. 6/2/6/3/12 2.9
Tried
from Can
on 16 Mar 2023
at 22:01