Free State Copperhead Pale Ale
While walking through a field and enjoying a lazy summer evening, our head brewer Steve stepped on a stick that popped up and nicked his leg.
Or so he thought, until he found two puncture marks on his ankle. The copperhead bite may have caused a trip to the hospital for Steve, but it also provided just the inspiration he and Chuck needed to name their new beer – yep, one lowly snake in the grass is the namesake of one of our most popular beers.
Or so he thought, until he found two puncture marks on his ankle. The copperhead bite may have caused a trip to the hospital for Steve, but it also provided just the inspiration he and Chuck needed to name their new beer – yep, one lowly snake in the grass is the namesake of one of our most popular beers.
3.4
218 reviews
Lawrence, United States
Community reviews
12 oz. bottle into glass. Pours clear Amber. Aroma of hops and malt. Medium body with a bitter finish.
Bottle. Pours clear copper with off white head. Nose is mild hops and earthy. Taste is some pine. Some metal in the aftertaste. Ok.
Copper pour. Small off-white head. Nose is toasty malt, earthy hops, burnt sugar. Burnt-toast malty profile, slight sweetness, earthy and piney hops. Medium body. Resin and bready malt in the finish. Not a terrible beer, but I liked the aftertaste better than the beer itself.
Pours a medium amber color with white head. Light pine, citrus, and caramel notes on the nose; follows onto the palate. Finishes with a little hop resin.
On tap. Pours amber with a small white head. Aroma is of wheat, pine, and very muted hops. Taste is of wheat, very light hops, and malt. The hops are very muted. Has a slightly earthy taste to it. Mouthfeel is crisp and carbonated. Body is thin. I do not like this one.
Bottle:
Bubbly amber, with a small off-white head.
Orange, bready malt aroma.
Caramel, bitter citrus-peel taste.
Metallic, dull, stale.....
Not pleasant.
Bottle. Light toffee malt and metallic orange peel aroma. Copper with small head. Sweet toffee malt and moderately bitter metallic lemon peel flavor. Below average.
Bottle from hy-vee. Copper color. Thin white head disappears almost immediately. Not much aroma. Flavor is straight ahead pale ale, a bit of sharpness in the finish. Medium body.
12 pour from a refrigerated bottle into a pils glass. Great pour. Very fluffy head. Lasting with good lacing. Great copper color, nice carbonation, and clear as day. Beautiful beer. Creamy mouthfeel. Nose is malty, a little piney, a little resiny. Taste is bitter, light hops, light malt. Very balance beer. A great pale ale.
Sourced from a 12 oz bottle. Remimds me a lot of thin maple syrup. Acid at the front, hops and then a sweet finish. This thing is hoppy, its more of the english style hoppy beers rather than a citrus style.
Flight pour on tap at the brewery (Lawrence, KS). Pours a nice glowing copper pour, a bit fiery and near transparent with that luscious ruby red body and glow. Frothy offwhite head is sizable, cakey with good retention and lacing. Aromas present grapefruit and citrusy hops, touches of gentle bready malts, a bit of biscuit and earth. A bit spritzy, hoppy and citric as it settles and warms. Initial is fuzzy and bitter, a good hit of "C" hops gives floral bitterness, pithy grapefruit and rind oils. Some gentle bread and earth, grass. A firmer hop profile and bitterness grows as a wave on the palate. A bit earthy, bready, that cool and bitter citric and grapefruit element flows well, hits the senses with a nice hop character. While the malt bill shows just a touch of depth, this one ends up fairly C hop-centric and bitter, a bit earthy and fairly session worthy. Nice stuff. Potent hoppy nose, good look and a nice flow on the palate with a firmer hop element that it’s overwhelming. Tasty.
On tap at Grinders downtown KC, pours a nice copper-orange with a thick white head that lasts. Aroma is hops, some pine. Taste is a more subtle hops, slightly mild for an IPA. Finish is clean, recommended.
mediocre dense head and middling lacing, pale brown and sparkling, acidic, alcoholic nose, roasted malts; citric acidity, rounded, sparkling, clean palate and quick finish, very good.
bottle from Michigan, brought ome from snowmobile trip, cloudy dark orange pour with white head, aroma and taste is hoppy
On tap at 2014 GTMW, pours a dark copper amber with an off white head, the aroma has some pine and hops on the nose with more of a malty touch to it, the flavor has a nice hop front end with a pretty balanced caramel and malt finish, pretty easy drinking and not that bad at all.
Deep copper pour from a 12oz bottle with a nice white head. Citrus nose with a slight malt character. Easy drinking, nice hop profile, just a little bitterness in the finish. Solid.
12 oz bottle poured into a tulip glass. Pours a crystal clear light copper with a small white head that dissipates quickly. Smells of floral, piney and caramel. Tastes of caramel, pine, floral, and light citrus. Light bodied with a drying finish and a moderately high bitterness. Nice and refreshing, a good beer.
Poured from a bottle. Light copper with a small, quickly receding head. Slightly fruity, with a nice, lightly hoppy finish.
Amber/light amber. Short head. Clear. Nice hop aroma kinda fruity and earthy.Want to say a mix with fuggles possibly, haven’t smelled this armoa in a while, planty herbal with a bit of mint. Slightly vegetably,slight spice pepper. Want to say dank and resiony but has a bit of vegetable/plantyness. Overall better experience with aroma in this than many good pale ales. Same in taste with hop flavor and some acidity orange and carbonic sting, good caramel and a mild/medium malty toast buiscuit , just about the right about of sweetness maybe a bit more. Not real dry, think I would like this more if it were a bit drier and a tad less sweet. But its a pretty nice fullish bodied tastey rounded pale ale. Really nice drinking though altogether.
Clear copper to peach gold pour with a 1 finger creamy to soapy off white-yellowish head. Aroma is perfumey and slightly soapy floral hops, sweet citrus, a hint of dank pine, sweet caramel and an earthy pine note just peeking in. Flavor is full of toast and biscuit up front, some caramel, light nutty toffee, sweet citrus, candied floral and earthy herbal hops, with a piney finish that has a peanut butter-like nutty note coming in just for a bit at the end, weird. Light body with a slightly creamy entry but overall fairly dry feel and light to medium carbonation. Good stuff overall.
Aroma is citrus, light hops and fruit. The flavor is citrus, light tropical fruit, fruit, malts and a slightly dry/bitter/tart finish.
In 12oz bottle. Piney citrus aroma. Flavors of orange, toffee, maybe a bit of honey. Beautiful.
As malty an IPA as you’ll find. This beer is defined by its bready backing more than its hop finish, which is understated.
On tap @ Flying Saucer St. Louis. Copper/orange pour with a white head. Caramel, pine, and grassy hops on the nose. Slightly herbal, lots of bread, and toasted malt as well. Flavor of grass, herbs, and piney, woody hops. Fairly bitter, but also a heavy caramel malt sweetness. Quite a bit of toast and mild apple.
Draft. Pour is a very clear copper color with small white head that laces well on the glass. Moderate bread and crust malt aroma with some grassiness. Citrus hop up front with a tropical flavor to it and some underlying citrus. Drying clean finish. Very sessionable and dangerously drinkable.
This beer pours a clear darkish orange with a small white head that fades somewhat quickly, and the aroma blends slightly nutty malts with resin and grassy hops. The taste is mildly bitter with grassy hop flavor, which is balanced out by a slight sourness; the palate fuses a medium body, soft carbonation, slightly sticky texture, and a grassy finish that is only a little bitter.
[Bottle] Amber in color, with a quickly receding fizzy foam head. Moderately hoppy aroma also features a decent malt backbone. Caramel sweetness and an average amount of floral hoppiness in the taste. Lingering malty sweetness is more dominant than the hop flavors. More of a hoppy amber ale in my mind. Tasting notes from 11/2011.
Just a really solid classic microbrew IPA. Citrus and pine nose with a crisp flavor that just tastes like "beer".
tap. amber copper with small head. medium malt body with moderate hops. solid but unexceptional.
Clear, copper pour with an off-white head. It has an floral and light pine hop aroma with a touch of caramel. The medium body has a slightly oily texture with lively carbonation. The bittersweet taste builds to a more bitter finish that slowly melts away. This is a good anytime beer.