Star Cheek
Tool Shed Brewing Company in Calgary, Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA Regular|
Score
6.57
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This India Pale Ale is hoppy, bold and citrusy, yet clean and crisp. Higher in alcohol yet still remarkably balanced. These hops don’t smack you in the face, they tempt you to experience their complex profile. Hop-heads unite! Here’s a local IPA to proudly call your own!
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theplanck (7492) ticked Star Cheek from Tool Shed Brewing Company 4 years ago
Middling at best for an ipa.. lacking drinkability, too much emphasis on harsh bitterness. Calagary airport
cmacklin (5055) reviewed Star Cheek from Tool Shed Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
473ml can. Pours a clear gold-amber with a medium, foamy, long lasting, ecru head that leaves soapy curtains of lace. Mild aroma of bready caramel malt, orange peel, floral and light piney hops. Mild, sweet flavour of biscuity pale malt, caramel, orange peel, grapefruit and piney hops in a dry, mild bitter finish. Medium body with an oily texture and soft carbonation. Easy to put back, but a bit too mild for me. A gateway IPA.
Gerbeer (8214) reviewed Star Cheek from Tool Shed Brewing Company 4 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
473 ml can. BBD 23072021. Pours amber with full head. Aromas of doughy malts and pine resin. Flavors of bready malts, pine resin and a bit of bitter tea. Hops may have aged, but pleasant enough
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Star Cheek from Tool Shed Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can from High Point, Vancouver
Hazy golden colour, small head. Old style, but not excessive, the malt has a very good biscuity accent, it has a good body but not much sweetness; the hop is a bit resinous, and the bitterness is robust.
It's quite good; I realize it's actually very old (11 Jul 2019, screw distributor and store), but I think it held up decently.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can. Amber with a dense cm of near white head. Aroma of butterscotch, gentle citrus and pine. And so it tastes. Quite sweet with hop aromatics as a seasoning, medium bitterness. A bit timid and rather old fashioned but a harmonious drink.
jksipa (1939) reviewed Star Cheek from Tool Shed Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Henry's Pub, Sheraton Cavalier, Calgary. Clear medium copper with a small off white head leaving tight lace. Nose is light caramel, citrus, pine. Light sweet caramel under a big resinous bitterness. Mouth is medium slick with average carbonation and a long bitter finish. 7/3+/6+/4-/13+
mcberko (47456) reviewed Star Cheek from Tool Shed Brewing Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Tool Shed, pours a clear pale copper with a small white head. Aroma brings out clean piney hops upfront, with a bready malt base. Flavour is along the same lines, with piney hops, some resins, and biscuity malt. Piney and biscuity malt. It's alright.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Star Cheek from Tool Shed Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught, the National. Cloudy light amber, aroma is a bit orangey, but some chewy malt as well, but on the palate this is really chewy and that messes with the balance a bit.
TimE (11146) reviewed Star Cheek from Tool Shed Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
hazy amber color. Very big, citrusy, orange, apples in the nose. Very very hoppy. Massive hop assault. Not much backbone. Fairly simple, but enjoyable hop bomb
Ferris (26026) reviewed Star Cheek from Tool Shed Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Update - Draft - Nice citrus and a clean decent beer. Much like the original. Draft - Light citrus hops and resin. Clear gold with a rich white head. Resinous with a bit of citrus. Overall a drinkable value IPA that I would be happy to drink.