Tommy Likey (Belgian)
Indie Alehouse Brewing Co. in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Collab with: Bellwoods BreweryIPA - Belgian Regular
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Score
7.18
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewpub.
Hazy orange color, big white head. Aroma of yeast, and some tropical fruit, and sweet, fruity malts. Doesn’t remind me of a belgian ipa. Its kinda a cross between a belgian strong, and a triple. Interesting finish, quite fruity, and yeasty, but some nice pine hops come through with some slight citrus.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
(Draught at Bellwoods, Sep 11 2013) Pours a deep burnt orange colour, small dense white head faded fast, little lace. Aroma an interesting combination of hops/yeast/malt. Definitely fruity and floral, but reminded me of temperate pit fruit notes - peach, apricot, maybe yellow plum. Slight clove/spice character, bit of honey malt sweetness. Flavour is again fruity, estery, with more of the pit fruit character along with sweetness from the malt to start, before the yeast takes over a bit with some slight spice, on the finish there is some light hop bitterness and a little bit of booze along with a lingering sweetness. Body fairly full, carb soft, feels somewhat rich. This is definitely a tasty beer, the hop profile wasn’t as in-your-face as DIPA would normally be and the yeast was powerful, making this come across as more of a hoppy Belgian. Very good for what it is, sweetish but fruity, still prefer the Bellwoods version though!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
This is really excellent. A super floral Belgian IIPA. Pours orange without much head or lacing. Super floral smell off the bat gives a great understanding of the powers of Belgian yeast. Not entirely sure this fits the profile of a IIPA but it makes for a great beer. I think I’m more partial to this one than the American yeast version because I’m a Belgo-phile. Belgian yeast tends to override the hop profile in terms of citrus subtleties here. Pours light cloudy orange with ok head and lacing. Awesome. On tap at Bellwoods.