The Vicar's Cross
Boxing Rock Brewing Company in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.77
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British soldiers stationed in India receiving their daily beer ration would never have expected this. The Vicar’s Cross has all the bitterness a double IPA demands, yet it is remarkably smooth and well balanced.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Hazy copper, with a medium beige head. Aroma of pine and spruce, light grapefruit, caramel. Full mouth feel, solid carb. Medium to high bitterness. And old school dipa.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Old rating - A 650ml bottle from NSLC Lunenburg from my Maritime trip last summer & poured at home in Jersey, Channel Islands. It's a redwood colour with a off white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of caramel, red fruits, citrus, honey, pine, raisins, earth & sweet malt. Full bodied. You can definitely tastes the alcohol. Medium bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pint at the Halifax taproom. Pours clear gold with a light beige head. Aroma has dry caramel malts. Flavour has burnt caramel malts, resinous pine. Nice hoppy bite. Pretty decent west coast double.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Poured from the tap @ Boxing Rock Halifax. Clear golden orange with small white head. Old school, caramel malt, grapefruit hops, decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle - Juicy grapefruit and some orange peel. Clearish dark copper gold with a small beige head. Grapefruit and pith with a nice bit of bitterness. Not bad.
Oakes (33493) reviewed The Vicar's Cross from Boxing Rock Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy, dark amber. This has a really strong canned peach aroma, with some of those pears. Gotta be some higher alcohols in here. Moderate bitterness, more of those canned fruits, It’s not that great - all the elements are there but they aren’t necessarily coming together all that well.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
650mL bottle, pours a deep dark amber with a small white head. Aroma brings out resinous hops, caramel malt, and residual candied sweetness. Flavour is quite sweet, with lots of caramel bready malt upfront, followed by resinous hops, finishing with a candied, sort of cough syrupy sweetness. Not elegant by any means, but it's not bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sampled from the tap at Maxwell’s Plum. Pours a clear gold with an amber hue and a near white head that dissipates to the edges slowly and laces. Aroma has sweet citrus, sweet grains and a bit of pine supporting. Flavor has bitter citrus and some light grass with a sweet grain backbone.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A reddish copper ale with a thin mocha head. In aroma, nice caramel malt with light nutty notes, light grassy hops, herbaceous character, very nice. In mouth, a nice caramel malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, treacle, light butterscotch, very nice. On tap at Festibière de Gatineau 2016.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Purchased at a NSLC on my trip to Nova Scotia in late 2015. Pours a hazy amber colour with a beige bubbly head giving some creamy-foamy lace. Fruity sweet malt aromas with some light hops. The grassy hops are more present in the taste with some nice bitterness over the fruitiness and caramel malts. Grapefruit notes, but not too dry. The mouthfeel is just right. I quite like this Imperial IPA, as very easy-drinking with nice fruit notes and good maltiness.