Bellwoods Roman Candle IPA

Brewed by Bellwoods Brewery
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Toronto, Canada

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Bottle - Intense pine and grapefruit. Clear gold thick white head. Fresh pine and a hit of bitterness that has a clean finish. Very reminiscent of Heady Topper. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

500ml bottle. Light yellow with a white head. Some resin and floral hops, touch of lemon zest, some toffee malt. Moderate body and carbonation, well balanced, becomes dry, more resin on the finish and a touch of alcohol.

Bouteille de 500ml. brassée le 14 mars. Liquide orange foncé avec une mousse beige. Au nez il y beaucoup d’orange, une marmelade d’orange sanguine et d’arachide. En bouche cette bière a un agréable goût d’orange, de poussière moins agréable. La texture est mince malheureusement. Cette bière avait plus d’envergure sur la 401 que sur la 20, dommage.

Une courtoisie de solidfunk. Merci! Une bouteille de 50 cl née le 14 mars 2013. La robe de cette IPA est plutôt dorée. Son col mousseux est petit et laisse quelques traces sur la paroi de mon verre. Son nez agréablement fruité repose sur une solide base maltée. Je ne peux pas dire que je suis impressionné par ces parfums qui, ma foi, restent quand même alléchants. Son goût est difficilement détestable. Son côté fruité tropical et ses quelques aiguilles de pin ne vont jamais au-delà de la proposition sucrée des céréales maltées. En bouche, son corps est plutôt faible. Son pétillement plutôt actif est un bon diffuseur. Sa texture très légèrement huileuse en fait une proposition facile à boire. Sa finale reste modérée en amertume et en intensité.

Clear golden pour with a thin lace. sweet malt citrus hop aroma. Sweet fruit flavour. Tasty pale.

Bottle (500 ml). Thanks to johnsense! Hazy golden/orange with a medium diminishing off-white head and some lacing. Aroma of tropical fruits, pine, lemon and hints of sweetness. Taste is about the same with a moderate bitter finish. Almost perfect malt presence here, it make a good backbone to the beer but it’s just there in support... he’s not stealing the show. Medium body. Dry mouthfeel. Hop forward, drinkable aplenty and very enjoyable. I prefer this one to their Witchshark IIPA. Very nice beer!

on tap @pub milos - taps a dirty gold color with a big puffy white cap. Aroma is tropical fruitiness and citrus mixed with sweet malts and some funk. Flavour has a start point that is malty-sweet then this is instantly swept away in a flood of piney-citrus bittering, finishes bitter with a resinous kiss at the end. Not well balanced but pleasant enough - hop heads will like it.

[on cask at Beau’s Oktoberfest, 2012] Aroma is a blast of grapefruit and pine hops. Crystal clear copper under a dotty, white top that recedes quickly. Quite bitter up front--balance is toward bitterness, with a sort of fishy accent that comes in with the hops flavour (from wet hops?), in front of a decent sweet malt backbone. Medium body, low to moderate carbonation, moderately bitter finish.

500 mL bottle from the brewery. Gold-copper with a small white head. Powerful piney aroma - dry hopped? Same for the flavour. Malt is well in the background. Lotsa bitterness in the finish. Very drinkable.

Aroma is tropical fruit, tangerine and light malt. As it warms quite an herbacious aroma becomes apparent. Quite light copper color, fairly hazy. Foamy white head that dissapates after not too long. Taste is surpringly piney upfront, herbacious hop in the middle, a bit of alcohol and then a quick hit of hop bitterness before a clean finish. Quite light bodied and a bit sweet. Quite refreshing and unique IPA.