Brick and Beam IPA
Yaletown Brewing Co. in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA Regular|
Score
7.05
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fiulijn (28444) reviewed Brick and 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 (30035) reviewed Brick and 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 (47051) reviewed Brick and 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 (33097) reviewed Brick and Beam IPA from Yaletown Brewing Co. 15 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.
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