Roman Candle
Bellwoods Brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - New England / Hazy Rotating|
Score
7.41
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Roman Candle was the first Bellwoods IPA. If you’re looking for a perfect, no-nonsense, hoppy and hazy American IPA, this is your jam. It provides you with all the excitement of a real roman candle, but without the common risks associated with pyrotechnics.
A hazy, dank and lightly resinous beer that showcases lots of juicy melon, apricot, and orange peel. Show Less
A hazy, dank and lightly resinous beer that showcases lots of juicy melon, apricot, and orange peel. Show Less
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Re-rate: Poured from the tap. Cloudy yellow with small white head. Tropical hops, mild pine, touch of weed and melon, biscuit malt. Better than 7 hrs ago. Feb 20, 2015 (7/3/6/3/14=3.3): Poured from 500mL bottle. Slightly hazy orangey yellow with white head. Piney hops, mild grapefruit with light funk. Medium-light body.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Feb 2015
at 15:35
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy light amber, huge weed aroma, like drinking in a grow-op. With a litterbox. A bit thin and a bit chewy at the same time. Hops are sweeter and more lemon candy. But decent ipa, tastes light and moreish. Columbus & Citra.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jan 2015
at 10:39
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught at Bellwoods Brewery in Toronto. Deep orange amber pour. Minimal head. Aroma is biscuit, orange, fruity hops. Taste is more explosive - big tropical fruit flavor with heavy dose of malts too. Crisp bitter finish. Good, if heavy, IPA. Would get again.
Tried
on 03 Jan 2015
at 20:47
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Medium Amber golden color. Hint of rye and citrus in the nose. The mouth is moderately hoppy with nice rye character over ctirus character. Modest bitter finish with lingering rye.
Tried
on 27 Dec 2014
at 20:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Working my way, gratefully, through Bellwoods’ brews. Pours a slightly cloudy golden amber with a bit of white head. Not surpriasingly this IPA’s nose is all about the hops, citrus and resin, with a little pine. You also get the hay malts in there but they really take a back seat. The taste of the beer is also heavy on the hops, but not overwhelming. Some hoppy bitterness, resin and pine. Softer malts support the beer. Bitter aftertaste. Overall good job.
Tried
on 20 Oct 2014
at 15:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from the brewery, 6.8% served in a wine glass, it has a wonderfully balanced hop bouquet earthy woodsy herbal my sister says it has a bit of a stinky cheese quality to it and after she said it I could see it. The taste is a sweet balance between the malts and hops great tasty stuff my family loved it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Aug 2014
at 19:52
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle fresh from the brewery. Hazy orange pour with a very short lived off white head. Nose has lots of pine and citrus with a good caramel and bread backing. Sweet toffee start is followed by a quite bitter pine middle, though more balanced than the nose. Mouth is medium with very soft carbonation; wondering if this bottle is a little flat. Will rerate if the next bottle shows improvement. Great flavour otherwise.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2014
at 18:19
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500mL bottle, sent from wilco (thanks a lot, Mike), pours a hazy copper orange with a small beige head. Nose of crisp biscuity cracker malt, bready notes, and slight grassy hops. Flavour brings out wonderful notes of melon, piney hops and tangerine, backed by some crisp dry biscuity malt. Loads of depth in the hop profile, with a very dry palate, just how I like them. Highly drinkable and thirst-quenching. Excellent IPA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2014
at 20:59
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
13th November 2013
Tasting at Bruce’ s pad. Thanks to Colin for this one. Hazy gold-amber beer. Good pale cream coloured head. Softish airy palate with light fine citrus. Softish airy malt. Skunky hops with a touch of pine and even a whisper of mint. Very mild citrus underneath. Light dry finish provides a flash of lime peel. Nice!
Tasting at Bruce’ s pad. Thanks to Colin for this one. Hazy gold-amber beer. Good pale cream coloured head. Softish airy palate with light fine citrus. Softish airy malt. Skunky hops with a touch of pine and even a whisper of mint. Very mild citrus underneath. Light dry finish provides a flash of lime peel. Nice!
Tried
on 20 Nov 2013
at 11:06
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Mr Bois’s 5K, from the main man himself. It pours hazy golden-amber with a thick white head. The nose is wood, earth, varnish, grapefruit, orange and plenty of dank skunky hop action. The taste is wood, earth, toast, rather dry, grapefruit, orange peel, sherbet, some astringency, skunk and varnish with a dry, bitter finish. Medium body, fine carbonation and foamy mouth-feel. Smooth, balanced and really rather tasty. Great stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Nov 2013
at 02:54