Short's / Half Acre Freedom Of '78
Freedom of ’78 is a medium bodied IPA with a wonderful, bright clarity and pleasing bronze hue. The aroma is a unique fusion of citrus fruit and subtle pine qualities. The distinct characteristics of the guava nectar are impossible to miss, and attributes of tangerine, nectarine, and even faint honey flavors are detectable. The finish quickly turns to an expected IPA bitterness that turns dry during prolonged tastings
3.7
174 reviews
Bellaire, United States
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Bottle. Pours an goldenish color. Aroma and taste are citrus, honey, and grapefruit.
Tap at CK Diggs, Mi on 08/12/16. Pours light, slightly hazy orange with a white creamy head. Aroma is wow, that’s a lot of guava, really sweet, mango, tropical fruits, orange. Flavor is guava heavy, nice medium heavy bitterness, orange rind, there’s a caramel malt backbone, sort of chewiness to it almost. It’s really solid. I actually like this a lot. One of my favorite offerings from Short’s so far. 3.9
Revisted on 07/12/17 via bottle from 03/17. Aroma is huge tart guava, plenty of blood orange, tart, adjuncty, some adjunct tangerine. Flavor is similar. Guava, blood orange, unripe passionfruit, orange. It’s fine. Clearly better fresh & on tap.
Aromas are heavily hops - grapefruit, pine and tangerine. A little sweet caramel malt.
Visually it’s a cloudy amber with an averaged sized off-white head.
Medium bitterness and some sweetness especially on the finish.
Medium body; oily/creamy texture; average to just slightly lively carbonation; fairly crisp and even slightly dry but with a long, fruity, slightly sweet finish. Overall a very nice mouthfeel.
Overall a very good IPA. There is a bit of sweet malt to balance the hops, but the hops are clearly front and center. I like the diversity/complexity of the hop flavors - grapefruit, tangerine and pine.
12oz bottle pours a lightly hazy orange/copper with a large off-white head. Very tropical aroma, heavy guava with piney hops and light caramel backing. Sweet guava, tropical hops meet piney bitter hop spice perfectly, cites, into light caramel malt and lingering dry bitterness. Yum! Great balanced and flavor flowing across the palate, very drinkable as well!
Bottle. 2 months from bottling date. It pours a golden color with an off whit ehead. The aroma has some caramel, pineapple and florals. The flavor is a little herbal with some pineapple, hints of pine, spruce and flowers. Strong spruce/flowery bitterness. Honey malt sweetness. Good.
Bottle shared with Paul, Max and Vinny. Pours a bright clear golden body with thin white lacing. Nose is citrus, melon, guava and spice. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with notes of spice, honey, fruity malt and grapefruit.
Bottle, pours golden color. Notes are dank guava and fake peach. Too much shorts influence in this one. Too much
Rated on 7-29-2016 (Bottle) The appearance is a medium sized frothy, fizzy white head that mostly diminished, slightly hazy amber body, lively, fast rising carbonation, and one ring of lacing. The aroma is guava, citrus hops, tropical fruit, very earthy, grapefruit, some pine hops, and malt. The flavor presents moderate bitterness, guava, moderately sweet, fruity, zesty, and light grapefruit. The mouthfeel is lively carbonation and this beer is medium bodied. I quickly discovered that my sense of taste does not like guava. It simply is not my thing.
Short’s always is the best with edgy beers. Beautiful orange with small white head. Nose is wonderful tropical fruit. Tropical fruit flavors plus guava with a slight bitter finish. Not for craft beer wimps....but a beautiful experiment
Draft at Railroad. Pours hazy straw with off-white head. Nose was resiny hops, grapefruit, mango. More hops in the flavor.
Nutty and guava flavors. Delicious but weird. Draft at Beermiscuous. Crazy fruit and earthy. Not nsd
On tap at Lunar Brewing Co. and shaker served, showing a cloudy, orangey gold color, with a presentable and rather persistent layer of white, thick & cakey froth, and patches & wavy spray of lacing. The aroma was an expressive nose of nectarine, guava, and some strawberry-like sweetness. Light to medium bodied, with decent carbonation, the taste added a citrus & rind bitterness that possessed some lingering quality, continued the subtle, fruity sweetness, mild malt, and finished with a bit of dryness. Nothing overpowering, but loved the nose, and found this quite drinkable.
Thanks to Justin for this great brew! Liquide orangé presque ambré, moyennement trouble et proposant une mousse blanche peu tenace. Arômes frappantes de clémentine, de goyave, de tangerine, de pain grillé, d’ananas et de melon. Une IPA des plus fruitées et surtout, de fruits que l’on ne rencontre pas si fréquemment! Très originaux ces parfums exotiques qui n’ont rien à voir avec l’habituel pamplemousse qui finit par devenir quelques-unes peu blasant. Belle effervescence en bouche alors que le liquide affiche un corps moyen. La combinaison des deux se fait toute en légèreté. Un habile truchement d’aiguille de pin et des mêmes fruits ressentis au nez. Buvabilité extrême! Ohhh qu’il fait soif en cette chaude Saint-Jean Baptiste! Malts cohérents avec l’ensemble fruité et d’amertume élevée. Unique en son genre, une IPA des plus originales et délicieuses!
Sampled on draft at 3R6P this beer poured a hazy bright golden color with a medium sized creamy white head that left a bit of lacing. The aroma was tart, piney and cactusy. The flavor was bitter, citric and piney with notes of cactus and pepper. Long finish. Medium body. Decent.
Nice fruity IPA. Hazy copper. Guava and lemon in the aroma, more fruitiness in the taste. Nice piney bitterness in finish, good stuff.
Pours a clear golden amber with a thin white ring. Tart citrus aroma. Taste is mostly citrus rind. Fairly harsh and bitter. I couldn’t taste any Guava. Not refreshing or enjoyable.
Bottle. Cloudy apricot with an average white head and great lacing. Aroma is full of guava. Grapefruit, citrus, and some tropical notes as well. Flavor is loaded with citrus and guava. Mild tropical flavors and pine mix with a bit of mild bread like malts. Average mouthfeel and super refreshing.
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 5/23/2016. Pours slightly hazy golden orange color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass. Aromas of big tangerine, grapefruit, peach, apricot, pineapple, papaya, guava, mango, light pepper/pine, light caramel, toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Fantastic aromas with awesome balance and complexity of juicy citrus/tropical hops, guava nectar, and moderate bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big tangerine, grapefruit, peach, apricot, pineapple, papaya, guava, mango, light pepper/pine, light caramel, toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine/herbal/citrus peel bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of tangerine, grapefruit, peach, apricot, pineapple, papaya, guava, mango, pepper, pine, toasted bread, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance of juicy citrus/tropical hops, guava nectar, and moderate bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance and zero astringent hop flavors after the finish. Light-moderate dryness from bitterness, lightly increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately sticky, and fairly creamy/grainy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is an outstanding fruited IPA! All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of juicy citrus/tropical hops, guava nectar, and moderate bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the balanced bitterness. A highly enjoyable offering.
Sample at Lock 27. The beer pours a cloudy copper-gold color with a medium thick foamy white head that diminishes gradually to a film. Stringy lacing. Aroma of tropical fruit, hops and malt. Medium body with flavors of citrusy hops, guava and malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a citrusy hops aftertaste. Above average overall.
355ml bottle. The smell is great, nice guava scent. Flavor is boring, it dirnks well for a near 7%er but not a huge amount of ipa.
Bottle. Slightly hazy, orangey-gold pour, big foamy white head with exceptional retention and nice lace. Nose is big tropical fruity dankness, basement full of cats, white grape juice, melon, cakey malt. Mouth is loaded with guava -- if you ever been lucky to find em fresh in your local produce market, you’ll totally dig this... anyway, lots of fruit and chewing gum gives way to bready malt, grassy, grapefruit, bitterness underpinning the whole shebang. Solid.
On tap at TJ’s. Poured a slightly hazy golden color with an averaged sized head. Earthy, grassy, some citrus and some lighter dankiness.
On tap at Champps in Brookfield. Golden copper pour. White head. Big guava nose with other tropical fruits. Light toffee. Taste is of sweet tropical fruit, toffee citrus. Lighter aside of medium bodied. The blend is well done. Solid carbonation. Little alcohol presence. Finishes very well blended between bitter and sweet. This is an excellent tropical ipa! 15
This kind of smells like a sausage. I don’t know how to describe the flavor its like a sausage pine tree... I am confused because that sounds awful but I don’t hate it. I don’t know what’s real anymore..
Pours a darker golden, slight haze, with a good-sized eggshell head that settles after a while and leaves some ropey, spotty lace. Nose involves really pungent and immediate tropical fruit. I haven’t experienced guava first hand to my recollection, so the aroma must be unmistakably guava. There are also some nice dank, piney, resiny hop notes under there, but it’s mostly just zesty, vibrant, eye-opening fruit. Some sweetness, quite bitter, some slight juicy tartness. Light to medium bodied, pretty active, bright on the palate with juiciness and bitterness, finishing dry and refreshing. A really cool beer that I’m so glad found its way to Indiana.
Samled at gabf. Golden with a big off white head. Truly unique fruit flavors. Tropical but more. A little pine. Good stuff.
Draft at brew pub. Aromas of spruce, resin, citrus, slight floral. Medium bodied. Golden orange color.
Savor 2015. Always make a point to see Short’s if they are there. Nice level of bitterness, nice amount of citrus. Hard to distinguish what type of citrus after a long evening at Savor.
Somewhere between a 2 and 4oz draft pour at SAVOR 2015’s Saturday night session. Poured a clear pale golden c9olor with a small white head. Aroma was a blast of pine notes, some bready malts. Flavor was strong resin, pine, floral and a very decent balance of malts. Wonderful.
Bottle. Opaque orange pour. Nice head. Sweet nose of dry hopped floral, grapefruit. Full body. Tastes of grapefruit, light citrus, floral dry hopping, honey. Delicious.