Shizumu
Godspeed Brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.14
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Shizumu | しずむ (meaning: drowning) to look across the industry in this day and age, you’d be hard pressed to find this style amongst the rank and file brewery releases. Its path to prominence started on the Californian coast before completely upending an industry on the cusp of unmitigated growth. Read: it’s the beer many breweries made their bonafides with, before pivoting to the next trend. Today, amongst an ever-rising sea of uniformly hazy, juicy (and we admit delicious) IPAs, we see an opportunity to scratch an old itch.
Shizumu pours crystalline clear and is brimming with American hop character (Chinook, Cascade, and Centennial hops) by way of orange pith, ripe passion fruit and pleasant pine. Expect a clean hop bitterness and balanced malt backbone to cull these complementary flavours into an organized delight.
Shizumu pours crystalline clear and is brimming with American hop character (Chinook, Cascade, and Centennial hops) by way of orange pith, ripe passion fruit and pleasant pine. Expect a clean hop bitterness and balanced malt backbone to cull these complementary flavours into an organized delight.
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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Can from the brewery. Clear copper pour, medium head. This is a classic West coast ipa. Boat. Loads of pine resins, and caramel cereals. This reminds me of Ontario's craft beer infancy. Really brings me back, great stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:47
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
341mL can, pours a cloudy golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out fresh piney hops, grapefruit peel, citrus, and crisp biscuity malt. Flavour is nicely bitter, with loads of bitter grapefruit, bitter pine cones, a bit of resins, and just enough biscuity malt backbone. Quite bitter, especially for this day and age of the pussification of IPAs via hazies. Drinkable and bright, with a long lingering bitter finish. Good stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Sep 2022
at 02:53
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can: Poured a clear amber color ale with a large off-white head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of caramelized malt notes with some resinous and citrusy dry hops notes. Taste is also dominated by lightly caramelized malt notes with some dry resinous and citrusy hops notes with a dry finish. Body is about average with good level of carbonation. Enjoyable but caramelized malt presence is bit more noticeable then I would have wished.
Tried
from Can
on 29 May 2020
at 15:53