Northern Nectar
Central City Brewers & Distillers (Red Racer) in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Collab with: Yukon BrewingPale Ale - American Style / APA Regular
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Score
5.67
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This beer captures the tenacity of honeybees that strive to create that perfect nectar. Inspired by the wildflowers and landscapes of the Yukon this brew strikes gold.
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5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Light frutiness, nutty caramel and roasty brown sugar. Thin mouth feel, low carb. Low bitterness, light fruity, bread sweet caramel finish with light resins.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:34
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can: Poured a yellow color ale with a medium size foamy head with light retention and minimal lacing. Aroma of honey notes with light malt notes is pretty bland. Taste is a mix of grainy malt notes with some light honey and bland aftertaste. Body is about average with OK carbonation. Bland and not drinkable enough to be memorable.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Nov 2018
at 21:53
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Part of Across the Nation Collaboration Out West 2018. Pours a clean golden-amber colour with a warm cap, small, but with decent stay and creamy lacing. Grassy aromas of hops with some fruity citrus notes, also from the malts. The taste is fruity with the honey showing, blending things. The hops are a little less than in the nose. Still, a decent dry finish. Quite a nice honey pale ale.
Tried
on 24 Sep 2018
at 02:24
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Can from the LCBO. Part of the Across the Nation collaboration pack (2018, West). Clear medium copper under a small short lived off white head that leaves no lace. Nose is honey, toffee, light apple and grains. Medium- honey and toffee sweetness with a light grassy bitterness. Mouth is thin with very soft carbonation and a metallic finish. Meh 6-/3-/5/2/9
Tried
from Can
on 23 Aug 2018
at 23:53
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Very nice foaminess on top of clear copper, small bubbles for carbonation. Soft hops and malt aroma, rather sweet, probably honey if it's used. Flavour is lot of plum, cherry pie, with residual graham cracker sweetness. Dry finish. Kind of nice, but not too complex.
Tried
on 21 Jul 2018
at 22:42
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Mooch tasting, can
Hazy light amber colour. The aroma is bad, unpleasant fermentation byproducts, fusels, chemicals, apple, some cardboard. The mouthfeel is lean, it has cereals and carboard flavour, maybe some residual sweetness, but no honey evidence; some chemicals too.
Brewing with honey is not very easy because it tends to ferment out, and this beer didn't manage that well either.
Hazy light amber colour. The aroma is bad, unpleasant fermentation byproducts, fusels, chemicals, apple, some cardboard. The mouthfeel is lean, it has cereals and carboard flavour, maybe some residual sweetness, but no honey evidence; some chemicals too.
Brewing with honey is not very easy because it tends to ferment out, and this beer didn't manage that well either.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jul 2018
at 01:40
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Can - Lots of leafy pine. Clear gold with a small white head. Pine and caramel sweetness.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jul 2018
at 02:26
3.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Amber colour. Thin head. The aroma is kind of apple sauce. The body is kind of water, with a harsh bitterness. Honestly, just bad. The honey fermented out entirely, leaving off notes and no body. Both these brewers have been around way too long to make mistakes like this.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2018
at 02:19
2.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 3
341mL can, pours a clear copper amber with a small beige head. Aroma has a revolting stale, earthy hop character, with cardboardy bready malt. Flavour is just unpleasant, with stale, rancid hops, along with a nice cardboard backbone. Well this is just terrible.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jul 2018
at 02:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bright amber, rocky beige head. No nose High carbo palate is light sweet, blanaced mid and medium lasting bitter finish
Tried
on 27 Jun 2018
at 01:53