The Brew Lab: Champagne IPA
Burnside Brewing Company in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Brut Regular|
Score
6.45
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To celebrate Oak Manor's 5th anniversary, we've brewed something special. Our newest Brew Lab release, Champagne IPA, is brut, very dry, bright, and effervescent. Extra pale with a light body and crisp, sparkling finish, it's brewed with Pilsner malt, rice, and a complex blend of hops for a refined fruit-forward aroma and refreshing drinkability.
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6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
473mL can. Pours clear blonde with a small white head. Cracker malts, rice, and some dry grassy pine on the nose. Flavour is fairly dry, some rice character, fairly grassy, some mineral character; a bit light on the hops. More brut and less IPA. It's okay, but I think needs a bit of tuning.
Tried
from Can
from
RockHead Beer Wine Spirits
on 13 Sep 2026
at 03:22
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 5
473mL can, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma has some champagne-style notes, soft hops, and some seltzery notes. Flavour is fairly dry, with very low hop bitterness/content, seltzery notes, and a touch of champagne character. Pretty lacklustre hop expression, but it’s at least drinkable. Okay.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Sep 2026
at 03:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pale. Not much head. There''s a fair bit of allium from the hops on the nose. It's quite dry, the hop lending a bit of fruitiness, and the malt is really lean. Not bad - it really leans into the brut character. There's not actually a lot of hop character. Maybe some diacetyl in the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Sep 2026
at 03:18