BFF
Pizza Port (Carlsbad) in Carlsbad, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Stone BrewingPale Ale - American Style / APA Regular
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Score
7.05
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jgb9348 (11828) reviewed BFF from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Super clear golden coloured body with a ton of effervescence and a thick, billowy and microfoamed off-white and creamy three to four centimetre tall head that fades pretty quickly and leaves a very spotty lace on the sides. Aroma of light citrus fruit, grass, hay, flowers, perfume and a slight metallic astringency with more hops than malt, and seemingly an older school West Coast IPA scent. Light to Medium-bodied; Very crisp, grassy, herbal and floral hops show at first with a lot of bitterness from the alpha acids, with some citrus fruits noticeable, ending with a biscuity and bready bite from the yeast and malts. Aftertaste is fresh, dry, grassy, herbal and balanced pretty nicely, almost showing an APA-like cleanness, but some richer citrus fruits and bitterness bring out some IPA notes, but the yeast and biscuits almost make this seem like a Lager! Overall, a nice and very crisp, herbal and perfumey beer that's sort of all over the map, but is nice and reminiscent of California itself. I was hoping for better with these two breweries, but it was still worth the space in my suitcase from California to Oklahoma and finally back to Washington to be able to sample it on the other coast that it was brewed on. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Trader Joe's in Fairfield, California on 23-August-2022 for US$2,25 (great deal!), canned on 22-July-2022 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 07-October-2022.
Sledutah (12313) reviewed BFF from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
On tap at The Brass Tap in Vacaville. Pours cloudy yellow with a medium sized white head, good lacing. Tropical fruit, melon, pineapple. Good
Oakes (33493) reviewed BFF from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Golden. Not much head. Mild bready malt, medium bitterness and citrusy hop.
bb (18428) reviewed BFF from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can. Amber beer with a cream head. tropical fruit and grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit and pine flavor with light tropical fruit. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and pine linger with light tropical fruit.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed BFF from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Poured up on tap at Tipsy Cactus where it exhibits a near clear deep gold body that supports a thin white head of foam. The aroma offers up onion, grapefruit, faint strawberry and then some mango. The taste delivers spicy dank onion hops, a dash of tangelo juice and then firm levels of soft juicy mango and cantaloupe. This does maintain a bitter hop forward balance as well as a modest pale ale malt base. Solid Pale.
WingmanWillis (38284) ticked BFF from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 7 years ago
Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed BFF from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at GBBF '18, day 3, 09/08/18. Hazed golden orange with a well presented off white covering. Nose is lIght pine needle, citric pith, melon, tangerine, light breads. Taste comprises orange pith, bread dough, toasted malts, light grapefruit zest, pine resin, grassy bite. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close splashed with juicy hop bitterness. Solid cask pale.
Convair880 (6926) reviewed BFF from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at GBBF 2018, Olympia, London. A golden/yellow coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Hoppy, malty, orange aroma. Tastes hoppy, malty, citrus, orange, slightly sweet. Nice one.
Fergus (31329) reviewed BFF from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask at the GBBF 2018 day 3 09/08/2018. A clear yellow coloured pour with no head Aroma is decent zesty orange, tang, pine. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, sticky hop oils, orange rind, zesty, resinous.. Little raw grains. Palate is oily, resinous, lowish carbonation. Ok
fonefan (84534) reviewed BFF from Pizza Port (Carlsbad) 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2018 - Day 3 🇬🇧 [ Great British Beer Festival 2018 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.
[ As Pizza Port / Stone BFF (Beer Friends Forever) ].
ABV: 6.2%. Cloudy medium orange colour with a average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, fruity malt, moderate hoppy, citrus, fruity hops, sweet fruit, dried fruit. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light heavy bitter with a long duration, sweet malt, pale malt, fruity malt, rich, sweet fruit, malty, dried fruit. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20180809]
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