North West Pale Ale
Strathcona Beer Company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
5.90
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Refreshing, hoppy ale. Golden amber in colour. Enough supporting malt to make it balanced. Clean hop presence reflects the new world hop varieties that include Phoenix, Cascade and the new Zealand hop Wakatu.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft - Caramel and sweet hoppy notes. Clearish gold with a decent white head. Caramel, sweet with a touch of earthy hoppy bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jul 2017
at 20:41
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Dull, light amber, with just a sliver of head. Has pear, berry, melon... nice mix of hops, seems from the florals like the emphasis is on the Wakatu. Thin on the palate...I get malt sweetness but without much body. Hops have been recorded from the other room. The Wakatu brightness I get on the nose is but a distant echo on the palate. That leaves altogether too much sticky malt to drive the bus. Hrm. Not what I like in APA.
Tried
on 05 Feb 2017
at 13:03
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap at Strathcona, pours a cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is very restrained, with light piney hops and some boiled vegetables. Flavour is dry, with some piney hops upfront and a dry biscuity malt backbone. Dry and somewhat astringent finish. Simple and rather harsh. Meh.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Sep 2016
at 20:06
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 4
Draught at the brewery
Cloudy golden color. The aroma is not hoppy, it just smells of yeast; paper, dirty feet. Dry mouthfeel, yeast soup again, very astringent in the final, poor malt quality, a bit of resins but besides that not enough hop quality; vegetables notes in the final.
So sad that in Vancouver it’s acceptable to sell something like this.
Cloudy golden color. The aroma is not hoppy, it just smells of yeast; paper, dirty feet. Dry mouthfeel, yeast soup again, very astringent in the final, poor malt quality, a bit of resins but besides that not enough hop quality; vegetables notes in the final.
So sad that in Vancouver it’s acceptable to sell something like this.
Tried
on 06 Sep 2016
at 19:12