Upper Reaches Pale Ale
Central City Brewers & Distillers (Red Racer) in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Collab with: Beau's Brewing Co.Fruit Beer Special Out of Production
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Score
5.63
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Reaching for the tree tops in upper Canada, this collaboration brew uses peaches and Ontario white spruce tips for a locally inspired, refreshing flavour.
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5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Orange pour, small white head. Aroma is dominated by spruce. There is no sign of any peaches at all. Mouth feel and carb are OK. Finish is just more very earthy spruce with some hints of lemon. Jesus... Did they use 100lbs of spruce and 5lbs of peaches.. Wow this is a spruce bomb.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:26
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
330ml bottle. Pours a hazy orange-gold with a large, frothy, long lasting, off-white head that laces nicely. Aroma of spruce and light peach. Flavour is dominated by spruce followed by peach and caramel malt in the background with a dry, slightly bitter finish. Light to medium body with an oily texture and soft carbonation. Very odd. This was a bit of a miss for me. The spruce and peach don’t pair well IMO.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2017
at 00:11
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from the LCBO (Central City Across the Nation Collaboration pack). Hazy medium orange amber with a small off white head that fades slowly to a sheet. Nose is spruce, with a hint of peach along with some light cereal and grass. Spruce is much more prominent in the flavour amounting to a spruce beer more than anything with the peaches only minimally evident. Just a light malt sweetness with the light+ resinous bitterness. Mouth is medium- with average carbonation and the spruce lingering through the medium finish. 6+/3/7+/3/13
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2017
at 17:51
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle: Poured a clear amber color ale with a medium size foamy head with OK retention and minimal lacing. Aroma of light sweet cereal notes is quite bland. Taste is a mix of cereal with some residual sugar notes and very little else noticeable. Body is light with OK carbonation. Not very interesting and mostly bland.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2017
at 22:21
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
On tap at Central City on Beatty, pours a cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma brings out a mix of spruce tips and subdued peaches. Flavour is very earthy and dirty, with lots of soil-like spruce tips and light peachy fruitiness. Rather putrid. This is bad.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 May 2017
at 00:55