Brick & Beam IPA
Yaletown Brewing Co. in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.05
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fiulijn (28383) reviewed Brick & Beam IPA from Yaletown Brewing Co. 14 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
2013-01-28, draught at the brewpub, 7-4-8-5-16=40
The amber color is quite cloudy as usual, with medium sized creamy head, and nice lace. The aroma is distinctively fruity, followed by the malt and finally a light yeast sweatiness. Good body, smooth mouthfeel; it has a very good malt and toffee flavor, with some pleasant residual sweetness; the hopping is perfectly balancing the sweetness, and is adding soft orangey resins. Long final, a bit drier and with very light astringency.
It provides pleasant fresh impressions.
2011-08-18, Cask at the brewpub, as IPA with Sirachi Ace (typo?), 8-5-7-4-15=39
Cloudy amber color, with a small sized cask type head, quite creamy in the beginning. Nice aroma, typical Sorachi Ace, citrusy, soapy, also lemon cookies, a bit biscuity; this one as well has some sweaty hops. Good mouthfeel, good toffee flavor, some caramel, but a bit harsh on the bitterness; the hopping is very resiny and quite fruity.
Very good, but rough, not as amazing as the Simcoe.
4 pints…
2011-08-04, Cask at the brewpub, as IPA with Simcoe, 8-5-9-5-17=44
Cloudy amber color; generous head, compact, persistent. Very nice aroma of hops, fruity and sweaty, traces of mango and mint too. The lack of carbonation not only creates a smooth mouthfeel, but it also improves the toffee flavor; quite strong hopping, without excess, with plenty of fruity character (grapefruit; oranges…) and a hint of chamomile. Long final, very bitter.
Tasted side to side with the Brick & Beam IPA: very different beast, this one is without the sweaty hop character, besides the differences due to the low carbonation and cask conditioning.
Excellent (I had 3 pints of it).
2011-08-04, draught at the brewpub, 7-4-7-4-14=36
Hazy light amber color; creamy head. The aroma is hoppy, fruity, a bit sweaty. Good toffee flavor, quite dry; very strong bitterness, apparently resiny is the main character, some orange fruitiness coming later; some character from the yeast too; the final is quite harsh; less refreshing than last night’s glass.
2011-08-03, draught at the Alibi Room, Vancouver, 7-4-8-4-16=39
Hazy light amber color; the aroma is very fruity (stone fruits and some grapefruit). Good toffee flavor, quite dry in the front, some sugars later; strong hopping, with lots of hop oils, resins, fruits; long final; balanced and powerful. The final is a bit yeasty, unfortunately, cutting any impression of freshness.
Very good.
TBone (30380) reviewed Brick & Beam IPA from Yaletown Brewing Co. 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught@brewpub, Vancouver
Clear amber color, good steady off-white head, nice lacing. Medium-bodied. Aroma of pine needles and resin. Flavor is piney, hayish, lots of pine needles too. Nice bitterness, but slightly empty on malt side. Anyway, OK.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Nice lighter-side of ipa color with slight hop haze. NW hops jump out of the glass - nice blend of both citrus and pine. Well balanced aroma. The medium mouthfeel has hop viscosity/resin. A tongue scraper - mostly in a good way. hops are a little disjointed throughout the palette with multiple spikes of bitterness. More piney hops dominate the late palette.
mcberko (47797) reviewed Brick & Beam IPA from Yaletown Brewing Co. 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at the Alibi Room, pours hazy orange - served quite warm. Aroma and flavour of caramel, hops and some sweetness. Nice lacing. Good beer.
Oakes (33770) reviewed Brick & Beam IPA from Yaletown Brewing Co. 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Is this the Simcoe IPA from the Alibi Room? I’ll have to check on that - placeholder for now. Amber. Hazy. Nice head. Big simcoes blast out of the glass. Brisk, refreshing simcoe citrus bomb has a pleasing richness of bitterness. Quality - I don’t remember anything like this in the 15 year history of Yaletown Brewing.
crit200 (5349) reviewed Brick & Beam IPA from Yaletown Brewing Co. 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Hazy amber/red,lasting beige head.Big carmel malt,brown sugar citrus hop nose.Med citrus hop profile,lots of malt.Med strength lasting hop end