Finback Brewery

Finback “Brain Scan” Triple IPA

Name: Brain Scan Brewers: Finback Brewery (United States) Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: American IPA) ABV: 10.0% Review Year: 2022 Brain Scan is a “Triple IPA” brewed by Finback Brewery (New York) that features Triumph, Citra, Simcoe, and Sabro hops. STYLE GUIDELINES This beer is being evaluated as a Mixed-Style Beer (34B) with the American IPA (21A) (but brewed to “Triple” strength) as the …

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Finback “Social Fabric” DDH Double IPA

Name: Social Fabric Brewers: Finback Brewery (United States) Style: Mixed-Style Beer (Hazy IPA + Double IPA) ABV: 8.0% Review Year: 2022 Social Fabric is a double dry-hopped Double IPA brewed by Finback Brewery (Queens, NY) with Mosaic and 007 hops. Reviewed last July 2022. STYLE GUIDELINES This beer is being evaluated as a Mixed-Style Beer (34B) combining Hazy …

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The Finback x Bottle Logic Omura Trilogy

Omura is a massive Imperial Stout brewed by Bottle Logic Brewing (California) and Finback Brewery (New York) sometime in 2019. This behemoth was aged in Willet bourbon barrels for 10 months and manifested in three versions– Black, Orange, and White– each featuring different combinations of ingredients such as chocolate, coffee, orange, cinnamon, coconut, and almonds. …

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Finback “Banana Drip” Imperial Stout

Name: Banana Drip Brewer: Finback Brewery (United States) Style: Fruit and Spice Beer (Base Style: Imperial Stout) ABV: 11.5% Review Year: 2020 We revisit a very memorable beer from the Queens-based Finback Brewery. This is Banana Drip, an Imperial Stout brewed with bananas, peanut butter, coffee, and vanilla. This is the first Imperial Stout that featured bananas we …

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Finback “Archipelago Breeze” Pilsner

Name: Archipelago Breeze Brewers: Finback Brewery (United States) Style: Fruit Beer (Base Style: International Pale Lager) ABV: 5.4% Review Year: 2020 We continue our documentation of the various artistic interpretations of the world’s most familiar beer style– the “lager.” Archipelago Breeze is a “pilsner” brewed with apricot and lemon zest by Finback Brewery from Queens. STYLE GUIDELINES …

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Northern Monk x Finback “Patrons Project 3.05: Once, Twice, Three Times a Whale” Mosaic IPA

Name: Patrons Project 3.05 // Double India Pale Ale // Mosaic Edition // James Butler // Once, Twice, Three Times a Whale // Finback Brewer: Northern Monk (United Kingdom), Finback Brewery (United States) Style: Double IPA ABV: 8.2% Review Year: 2019 The Patrons Project is an initiative by Northern Monk to foster collaboration, creativity, and community between …

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Finback Brewery “Six Year” Triple IPA

Name: Six Year Brewer: Finback Brewery (United States) Brewers: Mixed-Style Beer (Base Style: Specialty IPA: New England IPA) ABV: 10.1% Review Year: 2020 The Queens-based Finback Brewery celebrates its anniversary by releasing special one-off brews. Last year, we were able to grab some of these essential goods from their taproom, and ever since we reviewed the Five …

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2019 Young Master Invitational Beer Festival

Last 25-26 May 2019, Hong Kong-based brewery, Young Master kicked-off the second Young Master Invitational Beer Festival (YMIBF) in the iconic House 1881 in Kowloon. The festival featured 22 craft breweries from Australia, China, Denmark, Estonia, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the United States. The beer festival was divided …

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