IPA
Sober Carpenter in Montréal, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Non Alcoholic / Low Alcohol - Pale Ale / IPA Regular|
Score
5.72
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Loaded with hops, this floral West Coast style IPA offers notes of tropical fruit and citrus. Its sustained and balanced biterness allows for a crisp finish that will have you coming back for more.
Malts : Pale, Cara
Hops : Citra, Simcoe, Cascade
Malts : Pale, Cara
Hops : Citra, Simcoe, Cascade
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3.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 3.5
Flavor 3.5
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
Had one of these quite a while ago, probably close to when they first began and never rated it. Horribly oxidized and thin, seltzery stuff with overboiled, stale hop and little redeeming qualities, though not worty. I understand this was the beginning of craft NA beer, but the problem is, I just had a fresh, DDH Hazy IPA from them and it's not much better.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Mar 2026
at 22:28
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Tried
from Can
from
Horrocks Farm Market
on 15 Jan 2026
at 00:36
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Grassy, resinous, a little butter and slight sweetness. Mouth feel if full, carb is very soft. Low to medium bitterness, not bad for a non alcohol beer.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:39
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Amber beer with a cream head. Citrus aroma. Grapefruit and light grain flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit lingers. Just a little grainy, but not bad.
Tried
on 24 Feb 2025
at 17:19
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can (24082) from Total Wine & More, Brentwood. Hazy yellow with light sparkle, decent head with fair retention and light lacing. Aroma is citrus, nonspecific fruit and pine. Taste follows aroma. Smooth texture, flat-to-soft carbonation and finish as taste. Some complexity but the brightness (acidity?) of the citrus and fruit is missing from alcohol beers and/or needs more carbonation. These are getting better and better though.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jun 2024
at 01:15
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
s: crisp | resinous | spruce
a: slightly hazy golden body | soapy white head
t: good hops | biscuity malts | herbal
p: bitter | supportive malt | no sugars
o: good-for-style | fresh | balanced
16oz can | Total Wine: Alexandria (Potomac Yard), Virginia | purchased: 11-February-2024 | US$3,29 | sampled: 23-February-2024
a: slightly hazy golden body | soapy white head
t: good hops | biscuity malts | herbal
p: bitter | supportive malt | no sugars
o: good-for-style | fresh | balanced
16oz can | Total Wine: Alexandria (Potomac Yard), Virginia | purchased: 11-February-2024 | US$3,29 | sampled: 23-February-2024
Tried
from Can
from
Total Wine & More - Alexandria
on 23 Feb 2024
at 07:22
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Can, Donald's Market, Vancouver
Blond colour, slightly hazy; it's dull, but it has better foam than other NA beers. The aroma is very mild, there's some malt and hops. I had a Partake Blonde just days ago; comparing it to that one this one has a better body, but also more of that cereals/cardboard flavour typical of NA beers, although not as egregious as they used to be 10-20 years ago; bold bitterness, which unfortunately doesn't come with much hop quality; in the finish there's a tiny buttery trace.
Drinkable, on a hot day, but I'm not completely sold.
Blond colour, slightly hazy; it's dull, but it has better foam than other NA beers. The aroma is very mild, there's some malt and hops. I had a Partake Blonde just days ago; comparing it to that one this one has a better body, but also more of that cereals/cardboard flavour typical of NA beers, although not as egregious as they used to be 10-20 years ago; bold bitterness, which unfortunately doesn't come with much hop quality; in the finish there's a tiny buttery trace.
Drinkable, on a hot day, but I'm not completely sold.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Jul 2023
at 00:51
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can: Poured a deep golden color ale with a large white foamy head with good retention and some light lacing. Aroma of light biscuit malt notes with some resinous hops notes. Taste is also a mix of biscuit malt with some resinous hops notes and a resinous finish. Body is about average with good carbonation. Better than expected NA IPA but still a somewhat off taste from the malt is discernible.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Mar 2023
at 16:54
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pale amber, with haze. No head. Worty nose with fruity hops. Decent bitterness, and that helps cut the wort, but it also makes for a bracing finish...old time IPA. Some woody, floral hop notes on this. Not bad, non-alc hop juice.
Tried
on 10 Feb 2022
at 05:43
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Okay gold body and modest foam. Smells of okay hops, slightly sweet and weedy, vague malt but a little too wet. Taste is nice bitter hops, soft pine and malt, good carbonation and lingering malt but missing umami. Drinkable, better than many other non alcoholic IPAs.
Tried
on 24 Dec 2021
at 19:30