Bowen Island Irish Cream Ale

Brewed by Kamloops Brewery
Style: Mild Ale
Kamloops, Canada

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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High value as this is sold as a bargain beer. Gives micros a run for their premium money.

The beer pours kinda dark. But the appearance is deceiving. It looks tasty but there is just something off when i try it.

Can 355 ml
Aroma: dusty brown sugars , slight hop to it. Generic boring approach of mass production.
Appearance: clear honey amber gold with initial medium top. Head quickly reduced to bubbly fizz.2-
Body , Flavour , Palate and Final Notes: medium bodied with watery ends. Sweet caramel middle, hint of cooked corn , slight hop accents. Light on character but no major flaws.

Can, pours clear brown. Pretty low quality beer all-round, with cheap adjuncts dominating the aroma and flavour. Very poor.

Smells mostly like adjunct and cheapness. Pretty good head on pout, pretty clear and brownish. Pretty boring. Tastes mostly like adjunct. And water. The honey brown is much better.

Can. Perhaps the best buck-a-beer product sold in Canada. Not that this is brilliant, it isn’t. But it can be had for as cheap as $6.50 for a sixer, and it’s loads better than the average macro lagers that pollute today’s store shelves. Pours reddish-amber, nose is fruity and soft, no hops but no adjunct-ridden nastiness either. Flavor is mild caramel and fruit, some nuttiness, soft carbonation, tasty if unexciting.

Once you start trying all the different BC microbrews they start to blend together.... the amber colour of this one is okay, nice head, decent look to it but it’s not noteable. Aroma is a sweet and sour funkiness with a hint of syrup. Taste is kind of blasée with some barley and malts. Mouthfeel is flat - very low carbonation. Did I get a bad batch? Overall nothing great here.

Pours clear copper with a thin white head. Nice aroma very sweet and malty. Good mouth feel and nice flavour. Palate is dominated by roasted malt and wet grass. Great as doller a can beers go.

Creamy? Yes, but like almost everything edible or drinkable in to society today, completely over-the-top with sugar. Nothing Irish about this at all.

Can. Pours dark amber with a frothy white head that dissipates quickly. smells of metal. tastes of medium roasted barley with caramel notes. kind of thin, watery.