Sea Dog Amber Ale
Vancouver Island Brewing in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Altbier Autumn|
Score
5.95
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Sea Dog is an amber ale fashioned after the German Altbier style. Like a true Altbier, it is fermented with ale yeast, but at a colder lager temperature. This gives it a clean finish with no esters like a lager, but retaining the malty quality of an ale. Its deep copper colour comes from a heavy addition of dark crystal malt, and a touch of chocolate malt. Sea Dog is lightly bittered, so as to not mask it’s intense maltyness. Most of its hop character comes from a heavy dose of Willamette and Hallertauer hops at the very end of the boil.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Clear copper pour, with an ample beige head. Good aroma of bready, sweet caramel, cereal malts, and some solid grassy hops. Touches of roasted malts, and nuts, with more bread. A bit of spicy hop in the finish, with a medium bitterness.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:31
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
473ml can. Pours a clear amber copper with a small, foamy, short lived, off-white head that laces. Mild aroma of toasted grainy malt, caramel, nuts and spicy hops. Sweet flavour of toasted grainy malt, biscuit, caramel, earth, grass, faint chocolate and spicy hops in a dry, mild bitter finish. Light body with a watery texture and soft carbonation. Malt forward, clean and easy to drink.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Oct 2024
at 03:52
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Pours a clear amber color, topped with a tan colored head. There is a very pleasant biscuity aroma, some caramel and malts. The taste is creamy, with easily noted caramel and chocolate notes. A lingering caramel aftertaste. Extremely drinkable and ejoyable. One of the best lately.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2014
at 12:37
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
This lager poured a deep amber colour with a big, creamy, light tan coloured head. Scents include light caramel, dough, bread and old books? First sip was very smooth to almost the point of watery. Flavours of light smoke, caramel and roasted malt most predominant. Finish was malty and thin.
Tried
on 06 Nov 2013
at 17:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
From the LCBO, in the BC Craft Brewers Guild Natural Selections 6-pack. Pours a clean deep amber colour with a nice warm frothy head, great retention and patchy lacing. Cereal nose with some oats and hints of chocolate and spices, hops. The taste is milder, on the malty cereal side as well, with some light soapy hops and again, these chocolate notes (which I have no idea where it comes from, but chocolate malts in an amber ??). Quite interesting, different amber ale, worth trying.
Tried
on 08 Aug 2013
at 17:16