Muskoka Harvest Ale

Brewed by Muskoka Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
Bracebridge, Canada

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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750ml bottle. Pours dark copper, reddy in colour, with big tan head. Aroma and flavour are malt heavy, with hints of hops. Really enjoyable, exactly what you’d be looking for in a Harvest Ale. Local ingredients to boot! Great job Muskoka!

750ml swing top bottle: Pours a deep copper ale in the glass...2 finger tight off-white cap, fair retention, moderate lacing. Aroma is gorgeous...fresh...big malts over earthy leafy hopping, some demure pear and peach fruity tones...light toastiness...light sweetness...very nice. Big front side...large malts (no caramel or crystal) in good balance with earthy hop bittering..toasty malting mingles with leafy hops in near perfect balance...back side goes clean dry and bitter. A well made ale done with local ingredients...drinks well, pairs well.

750ml flip top bottle from the LCBO. pours reddish amber with a frothy tan head. really fresh amber malt nose, some back citrus hopping but really this is a malt tooth nose. the flavour is balanced. you get the citrus hops first then the big malt body rounds it out. the finish if off dry but balanced by the IBU’s. really quite good. this is a barley wine light styled amber ale similar to true north strong ale..

Large 750 ml bottle. Pours dark brown with little head. Aroma of hops with little hops in the finish.

First you sniff and it has an impressive aroma of hops, the flavour is sooth and the beer has a great finish. Recommend a taste

750 mL bottle. Clear copper orange with a small, short-lived head. Nice aroma, balanced between hops and malt. Almost like a hopped up USB. Not getting the citrus from the cascade. Flavour is much the same. Pleasant. Great caramel and bread backbone. Hops are herbal/citrus and present throughout. A hint of booze. Nice body. Too bad it’s a seasonal.

On tap, Kingston Brewing Company. Nice dark orange pour, small white head. Good hoppy aroma, citrus, plus sweetness from the malt. Taste is solid - very hoppy, lots of citrus - plus a good malt base. Really surprising how hoppy this is - not just dry hopping, but lots in the taste as well - and they do seem like an earthy citrus hop. Really reminded me of original Sgt Major. Nice work.

On tap at the Griffin in Bracebridge. Really glad to have had the chance to try this as I just missed a cask of it a couple years back. Taps a nice dark copper with a medium beige head. The aroma is very enticing, solid malt base of caramel and toffee biscuit, with some really nice resiny hops underneath. Flavour is even better. Same delicious malt body all the way through, with a perfect undertone of dry hoppiness. Mild fruity component appears as it warms. Feels dry and bitter on the palate, yet sweet and slighly richer from the malts. I could drink boatloads of this stuff, I really wish it was easier to find. All the elements here work so well together, I really can’t pick up on any flaws. Awesome job Muskoka.

Draught (sampled on Oct 13, 2009). Reddish gold with a thin white head. Aroma of green hops and orange candy - hops are faintly skunky, but in a good way, not a light-struck way. Flavour is quite hoppy, moderate sweet malts with some toasted cereal notes, and a nice bitter finish. A bit astringent as it warms, but still quite nice.

UPDATED: SEP 30, 2010 ADD NOTES 750ML BOTTLE - notable grassy dry herbal and lemon-grapefruit hops, a bit of a candy-like orange-lemon taste, very natural long finish has notes of grapefruit, May well have developed since a year ago, nice. DRAUGHT VOLO entered DEC 23, 2009- Has Muskoka’s typical rounded creamy feel, fruity with toasty biscuit malt, nice noble hop, solid palate, clear dark thick look, grape like sweetness under it.