Dockside Pelican Bay Brown

Brewed by Dockside Brewing Co.
Style: Dunkel
Vancouver, Canada

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Hand pour, special procurement. Coppery red with thin tan head. Caramel aroma is slightly metallic. This leads to a surprisingly well-hopped palate. Tastes much better than it smells. Good malt husks. Metallic bitter finish. Rough around the edges but ok.

Draught@brewpub, Vancouver
Dark nut brown color, mostly vanishing beige head. Slightly toasted aroma of malts. Light to medium bodied. Earthy, dusty hoppyness like in the most Dockside beers. Not much caramel for being a brown ale.

On draft, this dark-amber brown ale pours with little to no head. Un-exciting and uninspired, an insipidly hollow example of a brewpub-production brown ale. A little over-attenuated, this brown ale misses the mark on mouthfeel or malt flavor. An overly light body is followed by an odd astringency and slight sulfur aroma derived most notably from either sloppy brewing processes or a lack of a clean beer line. This has been my second tasting attempt at Dockside, even though the location can’t be beat the beers fail miserably to impress. This is an example of a brewpub that has a great location, makes great food, and also happens to brew beer to keep the "brewery" designation. When you enter a brewpub and more than half of the patrons are drinking wine, that should really tell you something.

Glass, 6 ounces, draught, at the pub, savoured on May 1 2009; eye: amber, clear, no effervescence, tiny ring of tan head, slight lacing; nose: hops, light malt, light grapefruit, light pine; mouth: hops, light malt, light grapefruit, slight pine, dry finale in hops with presence of malt, light-medium body, average carbonation, lightly bitter, grainy texture; overall: ordinary FRANÇAIS Verre, 6 onces, en fût, bue sur place, savourée le 1er mai 2009; œil : ambrée, claire, pas d’effervescence, petit anneau de mousse fauve, très légère dentelle; nez : houblon, léger malt, léger pamplemousse, léger pin; bouche : houblon, léger malt, pamplemousse, très léger pin, finale sèche en houblon avec présence de malt, corps léger-moyen, carbonatation moyenne, légèrement amère, texture rugueuse; en résumé : ordinaire

Draft at the brewpub. Poured a clear dark orange color with a thin white head. Smelled of toffee with whiffs of roasty malt and flowery hop. Light bodied, watery, and delicately sweet with minimal bitterness. Tasted of paper, pale malt, and subdued flowery hop. Every beer made at Dockside seems to be a slight variation on the others.

Draught at the brewpub
Hazy amber color. Yes, the chocolate malt leaves some nice trace over the caramel flavor, and the Willamette gives some fruity touch to the aroma, but as usual the bitterness is just a bit too much here...

At this point I just wanted to stop writing down ratings because I was getting really disappointed. This kinf of has a sweet nutty flavor but a sour milk nose that really puts me off. Grainy maltiness, with a bitter finish. Not my cup of tea.

Lots of head but sourish beverage. Some characteristics of the style without being a decent beer.

UPDATED: NOV 18, 2007 On tap@Dockside brew pub: Medium amber color with a small off-white head. Light smoky aroma. Flavor starts with sweet dark malt and finishes lightly bitter and dry. Medium bodied and creamy with soft carbonation.

On Tap at Alfie’s 40th Birthday. Tried all theier beers, and none were really noteworthy.