Foam Brewers
Microbrewery
in Burlington,
Vermont,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Foam Brewers
Established in 2016
wombat23 (6010) reviewed Ugly Casanova from Foam Brewers 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft at the source. Murky orangish-bronze, foamy white head. Aroma of citrus, resin, orange zest. Taste follows nose with the strawberry now coming through. Some caramel malt. Pine. Juicy bitter finish.
wombat23 (6010) reviewed Pavement from Foam Brewers 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at the source. Hazy orange-copper, foamy white head. Aroma of citrus and passion fruit. Taste is citrus, grapefruit, passion fruit, caramel. Finish is nicely balanced - both bitter and sweet.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Quasi from Foam Brewers 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Draught at the brewery, 5/26/17.
Little/no head atop this brassy, canteloupe-golden-colored beer with a solid haziness.
Yum, sulfur! Lots of funk and poignant acetic notes punctuate an oaky, sour, lemony, very gueuze-redolent nose. It’s certainly rich and sumptuous, if you can say that about a sour ale, though I don’t find it too oaky nor too acetic-forward; obviously that will not be true for everyone. No alcohol of flaw. Quite an impressive amount of aroma there for only 5.5%.
Soft, malty texture showcases a funky, tart/lightly sour character that is highlighted by lemon, moderate oak and big fruity acetic and Brett combinations producing something of a red and yellow fruit character that is highly flavorful. Oak tannin further comforts and helps mitigate the acidity and only the slightly loose carbonation detracts. Biscuity wheat plays well with the fruity Brett and plentiful lactic acidity with sulfur in the mix for the full-on lambic-like experience. Honey-like malt, oak and tart Brett/lacto lingering.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Northern Culture from Foam Brewers 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Draught at the brewery, 5/26/17.
Lightly hazy, copper-amber with deep maize hues and an off-white head that recedes quickly to a ring, as expected for the style.
And as expected in the nose, it’s a full on assault of lactic acid, sourdough and crazy esters/alcohols. Light caramel-like sweetness that you’d expect from a kvass but obviously considerably more sour and funky. This is certainly no commercial, lightly tart, moderately sweet, bread and rye kvass and is much more akin to a mixed fermenation American sour due to the saison yeast and the strong lactobacillus presence. Still, it’s very interesting and retains the spirit of a kvass with all of this crazy bread/dough/rye character. Lemon and caraway are done lightly and provide no overt character of their own but are integrated nicely.
Quite dry, obviously well-attenuated with tons of complex bread/dough/yeast/bacteria funk and rustic qualities. A lemony-lactic-yogurt-like edge to it keeps it crisp and tart on the finish but the beer has a soft texture, nonetheless, and with low but tight carbonation. Very interesting, well-done and while certainly no traditional kvass, a fun sour in the spirit of one.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Ugly Casanova from Foam Brewers 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught at the brewery, 5/26/17.
Murky/soupy, very New England IPA-y appearance is a copper-caramel color with an immediately-disappearing, white head.
Similar aromatically to Experimental Jetset though a little more classic pine/grapefruit character with less spice and lush dankness. More overtly tropical, as well, with mango pit and kiwi augmented by a lightly caramel-accented honey-like malt sweetness. No resin or alcohol and the pine doesn’t dominate. I like that many of their DIPAs are quite different from one another; not just juice bombs with the same exact yeast and tropical fruit character like so many in this category.
Quite malty with caramel, bread and biscuit creating a soft, supple texture with light, engaging carbonation and good attenuation overall. The malt is a bit more forward here than in many of their IPAs but to combat that, this one is also very, very juicy. Kiwi, mango and trailing pine and grapefruit add back some balance via more dry, bitter notes as spicy, Galaxy-like notes linger. Another nice one; drinks very easy for its size.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Experimental Jet Set from Foam Brewers 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught at the brewery, 5/26/17.
Soupy one here with the typical brass-golden color that goes with it and a white head atop showing low retention.
All sorts of dank, rather spicy hop notes with pepper, pine and lush vegetal greenery. I wouldn’t call it overly tropical, though. As usual, it feels like it’s quite dry based on the nose, as very little malt breaks through. Cracker and biscuity wheat-like notes with soft guava and light earthiness as it warms and breathes. Clean, with no alcohol noted and pretty low on the resin despite there being quite a bit of pine and other spicy notes.
Surprisingly sweet in the mouth, though it’s certainly still on the dry side. I suppose it’s just more of a relative thing. Malty sweet with honey-like notes and tons of buttercream-like wheat character that really helps to balance (maybe overbalance) the hop character. Pine and spicy, lush, green (aka dank) notes abound and the bitterness seems all but soaked up by the malt. Kind of an extreme or very prototypical example of the NEIPA, though importantly, it’s not yeasty. Melon and guava linger gently on the finish. Interesting and quite nice. Maybe a bit sweet, but tough to really complain about that.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Patterns & Pictures from Foam Brewers 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at the brewery, 5/26/17.
Large, white head is very well-retained and there’s a big haziness, though not soupiness, throughout this peach-bronze beer.
A big shot of pine is noted initially, though it isn’t overly resinous. Spicy, fragrant, dank notes and base malt on the end, mixing to create a light sourdough-like character (could be light yeast in there, as well) sit somewhat ominously, yet no resin or twang comes...As it warms/breathes, some fun cherry and red grapefruit notes creep in and the beer opens up a little more. All the while, the malt adds honey and cracker to help balance. No alcohol or flaw. Lots of pine, but a fair amount of juiciness, as well, as Mosaic is apt to show.
Similar profile in the mouth, as the nose; tons of spicy, piney, dank and light-to-moderate juiciness with a soft, malty texture and tons of dryness overall. While there is some good cherry, ruby red grapefruit and other light juiciness, the pine still comes off very austere and a touch acidic. Yet the beer is executed so flawlessly otherwise, that it almost completely mitigates this. Perfect attenuation, texture, cleanliness, carbonation....Very nice beer and not just another cookie-cutter NE mosaic IPA.
Dogbrick (24152) reviewed Galaxie 500 from Foam Brewers 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample from growler at the ’Smoked Meats and Beer’ tasting on 05/27/2017. Hazy bronze-orange color with a medium bone white head that recedes gradually to an outer ring. Stringy lacing. Tropical fruit, hops and malt aroma. Medium body with flavors of grapefruit, resiny hops and malt. The finish is pineapple and hops. Above average overall.
Dogbrick (24152) reviewed Pavement from Foam Brewers 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Sample from growler at the ’Smoked Meats and Beer’ tasting on 05/27/2017. Hazy orange color with a medium white head that dissipates steadily to an outer ring. Partial rings of lacing. Passionfruit, hops and malt aroma. Medium body with flavors of tropical fruit, herbal hops and malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a fruity hop aftertaste. Good beer all around.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Television from Foam Brewers 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught at the brewery, 5/26/17.
Moderately hazy, though not soupy, ruddy-copper-gold with plentiful, well-retained, white head.
Very juicy, Nelson-Galaxy-like nose. Dank, lush, green, almost spicy notes with pine interludes for sure. Malt is kept to a bare minimum adding only light cracker in the background, yet the low acidity overall prevents it from feeling heavy or overdone with pine (which itself isn’t resinous). No alcohol or flaw.
Soft, wheat-laden texture with tons of white wine and more dry pineapple that give it intensity and depth without any big acidity or heavy citrus. Quite dry, sporting only cracker and biscuit-like malts, yet amply malty with no yeast presence. Juice lingers with light lime and spice. Hint of candied orange and pine trailing off with no alcohol or flaw. Very typical, but great, NE IPA.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.97 |
| Beers | 336 |
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