Brut Force Champagne IPA
Phillips Brewing and Malting Co. in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Brut Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.81
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tall can from Legacy. Appearance: a bit hazy blonde with a white head Aroma: malty, crispy with some sweetness Taste: Similar, but with some a bit strange floral notes on the back. Very dry aftertaste Body: medium Overall: Tastes like described. It is not, of course, that elegant and tasty like DeuS, but enough drinkable and pleasant.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
473mL can, pours a clear blonde with a medium white head. Aroma brings out the champagne yeast upfront, having dried out much of the hops, with a crisp biscuity malt backbone. Flavour is crisp and dry, with a nice dry piney hop character, effervescent champagne yeast, and crisp biscuity malt. Crisp, clean and makes nice use of the yeast. Very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Grassy, Weedy and a touch vegetal. Clear straw gold with a decent white head. Grassy with a bite and not much else.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can from The Gull, North Vancouver
Sunny blond colour, just hazy, with generous head, persistent. The aroma is delicate, malt, bread, very light smell of summer fields. The mouthfeel is rather dry but also smooth, with pleasant multitude of microbubbles; delicate malt flavour; the fermentation method seems to highlight some Riesling quality and creates a light mineral feeling; the bitterness is balanced and the hop has moderate herbaceous qualities.
I'm not sold on the Brut IPA concept, but this one is technically unquestionable. Clean, delicate, surgical. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
473 ml can. Pours a pale gold with moderate head. Aromas of candied citrus, wine gums and light dry malts. Flavors of a sweet fruity lager with a bit of northwest hops. Clean. Easy to drink for the ABV.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can, Legacy. Pours golden with just the slightest haze and a thin head. On the nose, this has sort of a lemony note, with accents of pine and grapefruit, maybe pale malt but not really...it smells like a few other brut IPAs I've had. On the palate, it's off-dry, which is good, because there's enough sweetness that it's actually balanced. The pale malts provide a nice backdrop for the hops, though the hop character isn't especially bitter or bright. Ends up more like what would a couple of years ago been called a blond IPA. It's an ok beer, but it really does feel to me like this needs a brighter hop expression - almost like they didn't expect to need their best hops for this one, but they kind of did.