Mill Street Tankhouse Ale

Brewed by Mill St. Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
Toronto, Canada

Dark amber with an off white head, great lacing. Aroma reveals a nutty maltiness and a tonne of hops. The malts, supporting hops. Really great balanced beer.

Bottle. Aroma of powdered cocoa, malt, and hops. Taste is very cocoa sweet with a bitter hop finale. Medium carbonation gives a neat mouthfeel, and the lingering finish is quite enjoyable.

On tap at the brewery, copper-amber color, with a white head, nice hoppy nose of juicy citrusy, lemon peel floral hop grassiness and leafiness, with a biscuity, toasty malt accent, and some piney, resinous aromas follow through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, fruity, flowery hop, leafy character, with some resinous, piney notes, and some toasted, bicuity malt, light toffee accents, and a zesty, citrusy hoppiness, leading towards a grassy, leafy, hop bittering finish.

Ruby-copper pour with a small off-white head. Aroma of apple cider, orange peel, pine and earthy caramel. The flavor is floral pine with a touch of citrus. Biscuit malt with a touch of caramel and a dry finish. Medium-thin body with moderate carbonation. Nice session ale.

Bottle, thanks to Macadem for sharing. Pours a medium reddish-amber, good head, decent lacing. Nose is bright and hoppy, plenty of citrus and leaf, as well as caramel. Palate isn’t as strong, boiled vegetables, caramel, tea, grain, milder, weaker, thinner hops. A decent APA, but it really could have been better.

A nice hoppy aroma on this, with slight toffee. Taste is a little weak though, with english tea, hops and malt. Pours dark amber with a frothy white head. The carbonation gives it a nice full mouthfeel.

Bottle. 5.2%. Clear amber pour, well carbonated, decent white foam, good retention. Aroma is nice, sweet and malty. That ends quickly. This tasted like chemicals, or Barq’s root beer fermented under a radiator in substandard housing. I couldn’t finish it. I opened another bottle in the hopes that it was just spoiled, but it too was putrid. Will have to re-rate if I head east. Re-rate. New bottle. Take back the radiator comment. Taste is still sweet and malty, but this time, no train-wreck blast of chemical hops. Still very hoppy and bitter on the finish, but this time, I’m not running for the spit bucket. Decent Pale.

From the OCB discovery pack no. 2. 341ml bottle poured into a mug. Poured a clear redish-brown with a 1/4" of creamy foam with some staying power. Aroma mostly of sweet malts with some toasts and citrus fruits. Flavor of toasted grains, some honey like sweetness, a bit of a tang and a some hop bitterness at the end. Feels smooth and creamy with average carbonation. One or two would be enough for me despite the good flavor profile.