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Overall similarity
hopIQ take
Floret if you want a session-friendly pale that won't fatigue you,
Garage Project Fugazi if you want more texture and complexity in the glass.
Both sit at the refreshing end of pale ale territory—same IBU floor, half a percent apart on ABV—but Polly's leans into restraint while Garage Project builds a bit more body. It's the difference between a pale ale that disappears easy and one that sticks around.
At a glance
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Beer DNA
Body
Δ 8
Sweetness
Δ 3
Situations
In words
Floret
Floret drinks like someone finally figured out what a 4.5% pale should actually be. There's a snap to the hop character—citrus pith and a thread of herbal greenness—but it never gets sharp or aggressive. The low ABV feels intentional, not like they couldn't push higher; it's a beer built for the second or third round, when you want flavor but not weight. Clean, bright, almost mineral on the finish.
Garage Project Fugazi
Garage Project Fugazi has more going on. That extra 0.5% ABV doesn't sound like much, but you feel it as a slight richness in the malt base—almost a gentle sweetness that makes the hops land differently. It's got the same hop bite as Floret, but there's something more structured underneath, like the beer's actually holding your attention longer. It's still very much a pale ale, but one with opinions.
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Similarly hopped
Within Δ 0. Neither reads as noticeably more bitter on this axis.
Bitterness 44 vs 44 · Δ 0
Bitterness
Δ 0
Texture
Δ 4
Only Floret
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Shared character
Only Garage Project Fugazi
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