Foundation Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Foundation Brewing Company

Established in 2014

Contact
1 Industrial Way, #5, Portland, ME, 04103, United States
Description
Foundation Brewing Company uses classic styles as the inspiration for brewing exciting beers that push conventional boundaries. Founded in 2012 and opening in 2014, Foundation is located at 1 Industrial Way in Portland, which has been a breeding ground of World Class Maine beers.

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7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Pours cloudy gold into a shaker. Bright white head with medium retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Pineapple, mango and papaya aromas. Dry with mild garlic and hot pineapple upfront turning to dry bitter pith in the lasting finish.
Tried on 28 Feb 2018 at 03:40

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Tap at Ginger Man, Boston. Colour is clear brown with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Chocolate, some coffee, dryness, hops and malts. Clean and hoppy.
Tried from Draft on 13 Feb 2018 at 18:47

8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 7
Tap at Ginger Man, Boston. Colour is cloudy golden with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Fruits, tropical fruits, hops and malts. Pretty dank! ...and very good. Lots of dry grape.
Tried from Draft on 13 Feb 2018 at 17:48

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can at LKS. Big thanks. It pours clear yellow with a medium white head. The aroma is fresh, green, pine needles, grass, lemon sherbet, clean, bread and cracker. The taste is crisp, clean, dry, good bit of bitterness, grassy, cracker, pine dust, touch of herbal and straw with a dry finish. Medium body and fine, prickly carbonation. Fresh and chuggable.
Tried from Can on 03 Feb 2018 at 19:58

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle shared at Leighton's place 03/02/2018. A clear golden ywllow coloured pour witha fine white head. Aroma is sweet, floral citrus, pollemn, grassy, crisp. . Flavour is composed of grassy mango, melon, grassy, light wheat, . nice. . Crisp and
Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2018 at 19:58

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Pours hazy gold into a tulip. Bright white head with medium retention recedes to hug rim. Mango, papaya and pineapple aromas. Soft with sweet pineapple and apple front to back. Lasting dry yeast and mild pith finish.
Tried on 14 Jan 2018 at 21:05

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Canned 8/10/17, drunk 8/12/17.
Super-pale, platinum blonde body shows light haze and a small, white head with med-low retention.
Orange juice, mango, juicy pineapple are all quite promising and alluring, up front. Add some fuzzy lime, passion fruit and more tropical character and the possibilities seem endless here. No resin, heavy grapefruit or alcohol and only sparse cracker-like malt.
Tons of tangerine, pineapple, mango and white wine in the mouth. Good, restrained bitterness. They do get a good complexity here from all the hops and it's not just another juice and honey rendition of the NE pale ale. Great passion fruit notes give tartness, earthiness and zesty spice on the end. With extended warming, it's just bursting forth with passion fruit character. Really evolves in to a glass of complex hop juice (albeit enjoyable hop juice). But I gotta ask, where's the beer? There's almost no beer character. Just a hop tincture.
Tried from Can on 10 Jan 2018 at 11:49

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
4 oz. sample draft at the source. Aroma shows me very green whole cone hop cones. Flavor is earthy pine, mild/ weak tropical hints in the center. Malt bill is subdued. Ends with a mega ton of dirty/ dry earthy hops. Bitterness is on the stronger side.
Tried from Draft on 30 Dec 2017 at 12:21

7.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
4 oz. sample draft at the source. Aroma shows me tropical fruit; pineapple, guava, and a bready malt backbone. The bitterness is really low in strength. Juicy texture. Nicely juice. Yep go ahead and say it.... “It is a juice Bomb”
Tried from Draft on 30 Dec 2017 at 11:54

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
4 oz. sample draft at the source. Pours cloudy yellow with a fine-bubbled head. Aroma typical sweet malts and yeast. Flavor is is close to a German Helles. Shows me malty corn, sweet grain, and light yeasty notes. Mouthfeel offers light body and steady carbonation. Pretty much what it should be.
Tried from Draft on 30 Dec 2017 at 11:46