Italian Job (Chardonnay)
Indie Alehouse Brewing Co. in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Collab with: Birrificio BrùtonFarmhouse - Saison Regular
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Score
7.16
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Kind of like a wine pour without head or lacing. Has some bubblegum, hay and a little bretta. Finishes sour and a little bitter. Nice mix, nice balance. Very interesting - good collab brew. Tap at volos.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Another exceptional beer from Indie. Thank you! Beautiful smell of apricots and wheat. Nice solid golden colour, thin head that breaks down fairly quickly. Light on the palate, full malt flavour.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
(Draught at the brewpub, Aug 31 2013) Tapped just as I was wrapping up a session of beers so I wasn’t in prime condition for tasting! Poured a dark gold to pale orange colour, with a large lacy white head that persisted a bit. Aroma a good blend of vinous chardonnay character with pale grains and a fair bit of yeast, not a huge amount of oak character. Flavour was vinous up front, good extraction of the chard, with a bit of a white wine tartness as well. Slight bit of oak mid-palate, some grain, saison yeast giving a powdery/spicy character but also sweentess from the malt building. Still finished reasonably dry, refreshing. Body medium, carbonation soft but effervescent. A good barrel-aged saison, I thought it was an interesting comparison to GLB’s Gary but think I prefer the latter. Wish I’d had a sample when I was fresher!