Sessionista
Boxing Rock Brewing Company in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.18
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Hello Summer! After a seemingly never ending winter and a very short spring Summer’s hit us hard and fast. Every day seems like it’s a hot humid inferno, and we want nothing more than to kick back on our favourite patio and sip a few pints of some refreshing craft beer. They seem scarce, though. Those imminently sippable, fresh, cool, and lighter tasting beers are not always available at your favourite craft beer tap. Enter Sessionista. The first thing you notice is an intense malt aroma reminiscent of an English Bitter, surrounded by a floral whiff of lemon blossoms and orange. Then some roasty malt notes on the palate followed by a pithy lemon-lime finish. Not too bitter, not too heavy, just right for summer at 3.5% ABV, yet so full of flavour you’d swear that it was more.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark brown pour off white head. Light fruity aroma, subtle citrus, and some pine with alot of dark bready malts, and some carame malts. Full mouthfeel, soft carb. Very very bitter finish with alot of caramel malts, and pine resins.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:10
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 5.5
Tasting at Matt’s, 4% ABVHazy amber color. The aroma is strong, very estery, some British character. Initially it seems to have some British flavor too, but then this turns into too much vegetable bitterness, quite unpleasant in the final.
Tried
on 04 Oct 2016
at 18:26
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle - Earthy, spicy peppery notes with caramel. Dark copper with a rich beige head. Bitter u front, burnt toffee and a long bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2016
at 21:04
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
650mL bottle, pours a cloudy reddish amber with a small white head. Aroma brings out toasted caramel, bready notes, and a touch of English hops. Flavour brings out lots of toasted dry caramel, bready notes, and some bitter hops. Not exactly English bitter-like, but it's pretty robust and well-balanced. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2016
at 20:58
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Pours a brownish-amber. Thin head. Darker than expected. The aroma is light, thin malts, way to estery. On the palate, it’s light, fizzy, maybe some toasty malts, but a bit harsh, astringent on the palate. So thin and astringent - it’s not making me get excited about it. Not the best sense of balance on this one.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2016
at 20:49