Smartmouth Brewing Company Free Thought

Free Thought

 

Smartmouth Brewing Company in Norfolk, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular
Score
6.63
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 38 Ticks: 3
This beer gets its name from the independent spirit of our brewery and a desire to break the fall seasonal mold. We found some exotic hops, Mosaic and Galaxy, and brewed a beer we just wanted to drink. The result is a pale ale that’s quite sessionable, with tropical fruity notes and aromas of passion fruit and citrus.
 

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5.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Crisp, fairly hazy copper and bronze coloured body with a thinnish, relatively fast-dying off-white head. Aroma of very bright and tropical fruits with some light pine, a touch of grass and perfume and ending with some light sugars and a bit of guava and oranges. Light to Medium-bodied; Assertive biscuity and grainy malt flavour at first with a heavy hand of amarillo and more earthy and grainy hop flavourswith a touch of grass near the end. Aftertaste shows the pure biscuit flavours, a bunch of yeast, a larger dose of more earthier, mushroomy and oatmealish malts with a high bitter quality from the hops without too much complex characteristics. Overall,a relatively potent and pungent APA with some nice tropical fruit notes and quite a big earthy quality that shows well. Nice enough to sample, but not worth going way out of the way for or trying to find. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Food Lion in Onley, Virginia on the Eastern Shore of Virginia on 27-January-2018 for US$1,67 sampled at home in Washington on 30-January-2018 just three days later.
Tried from Can on 31 Jan 2018 at 08:17

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
12 ounce can from Wine Warehouse. Hazy orange, large foamy white head, good retention. Aroma of orange-pineapple juice and pale malt. The taste is bitter, dry pineapple, pale malt and a bit of canniness. Medium bodied, lingering bitterness.
Tried from Can on 30 Dec 2016 at 01:10

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
$1.95 can from Wine Warehouse. Pours hazy golden with only a dusting of a head. Heavy hop aroma - lots of citrus peel, pine, flowers. Taste is a bitter black tea with grapefruit peel, light tropical fruit, light caramel, and light toast.
Tried from Can on 25 Sep 2016 at 16:39