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Alexander Keiths India Pale Ale

Alexander Keiths India Pale Ale

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11
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A Golden Ale/Blond Ale brewed by
Oland Brewery (Labatt-InBev)

Halifax, Canada

bottled
common

on tap
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4122.27/5.02.27/5.05%6English pint, Shaker P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Nova Scotia’s most popular beer, Alexander Keith’s India Pale Ale is fully fermented, mellow-aged for smoothness and uses balanced North American flavour and bittering hops to create a unique, malty flavour. Alexander Keith’s India Pale Ale is smooth with a slightly floral hop character and a sweet flavour delivery.

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 TipsyMcStager (830), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/59/20

Feb 26, 2003  
Suprisingly low hops when they are marketing this as an IPA. Pours a light yellow, high carbonation and a thin head. Mild sweet undertones.

 BOLTZ7555 (600), Phoenix, Arizona, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/510/20
Nov 18, 2008  
10 karat gold with a 1/4 inch white head. Citrus, minimal pine, and just enough honey to round this out. Very average in every way.


 terrybail (185), , Ontario, Canada
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/53/102/58/20
Oct 28, 2008  
Bottle at TJ Baxters Standard mass pruduced pale ale Really tasteless Just average for me dude!


cakanator (40), Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
0.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/51/101/53/20
Oct 27, 2008  
oh my god really... this is the last thing from being an IPA. No hop profile, its sour with no flavor whatsoever. Thank god I don’t live near this beer.


 PaulHegedus (177), Brampton, Ontario, Canada
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/53/102/56/20
Oct 12, 2008  
IPA what? This is the most notoriously mislabelled beer in the world. It is regularly sold as a premium here in Ontario, though a blind taste test would make it hard to separate from other commercial macros. Bottle: pours golden, clear with almost no carbonation. The head raced to to disappear. The aroma is sour, faint with some weak citrus. Body is thin. In the flavour, there is bitterness, but it does not taste like hops. Bland.


superdude1979 (39), Phoenix, Arizona, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/54/102/510/20
Oct 11, 2008  
If I had rated this beer 8 years ago before I had tasted actual good beer this would have gotten a perfect score. Undergrad in Halifax, anyways. This beer has absolutly no hops falvour compared to real IPA beers, probably why it is so popular. I drink this beer out of sheer nostelgia, because there are many better IPA’s out there, though Canada is Lager dominated so any mainstream ale seems to be different.



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