1.9 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
341 ml bottle, purchased at the Picton LCBO.
Pours a medium gold colour, low white head that doesn’t remain for long. Minimal aroma, little distinction.. Clean taste, reasonably carbonated. Slight haziness, very mild hoppiness, in fact fairly bland. Not like other English IPAs. Drinkable if there’s nothing else around but wouldn’t seek it out.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle at Bishops Arms, Linköping. Golden beer with a big white head. Malty fruity aroma, grapes and apples. Malty flavor, hoppy citrus notes, some bread. Thin and rather boring beer.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottled at Bishop’s Arms, Linköping. Hazy golden, huge lively head. Fruity red apple aroma. Mid sweet with light-medium body and clean mouthfeel. Grainy and medicinal with slight salty minerally bitterness.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Golden amber body, Thin white head with a little retention. Unambiguously carbonated. Malted Barley to the nose with floral hops too, kinda gives it a soapy smell. Flavor is great, the malted barley is ever present with some tartness. Mouthfeel could be less sharp, no complaints. Overall a good beer for its category.
2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
341ml bottle, 4.8% a/v
Pours a cloudy honey gold colour with a somewhat thin tan head. Aroma is largely malt, some honey and grassy hops. The taste is malty with some "homebrew tang" almost, not sure if its underaged or what, but theres a slight something. The palate is nice and hoppy but then moves into the same tang/mashed peas flavour, really unfortunate.
Overall, decent, but need to remove that tang.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
cask at beau’s oktoberfest, vankleek hill, on. yes, gold, with a decent white head. cereals, some malts, sweet malts, light but present herbal hopping, average carbonation, light body, short herbal - slightly boring - finish.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Slightly hazed golden pour. The aroma is slightly malty with a touch of light honey. A little bit of orange peel and some malt sweetness. There is a kiss of sweetness and some grainy cereal character. There is a touch of estery fruitiness in addition to the malt component. Simple, but pretty tasty stuff.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Originally rated July 2007. New arrival at the LCBO in Ottawa, comes in a six pack. Pretty good aroma of barley. Pours a golden colour with a slight haze to it. The head is white and creamy, with very good retention and lacing. Carbonation is quite active. Good refreshing mouthfeel with the taste of the barley and a light aftertaste of bitterness. Nothing too crazy, but a really nice summer Canadian pale ale.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
A decent drinkable beer but lacking in anything distinctive. The malt taste is pleasant but the beer needs more hops.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Nice tasting but more bitter than I was expecting. Aardvark gorilla, chop suey dental hygiene.
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