IPA
BG Brasserie Urbaine (Brasserie Générale) in Quebec, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA Regular|
Score
6.71
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy copper and amber coloured body with a muddied bronze tint and a nice, two centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of yeast, bananas, cloves, grass, herbs and the slightest touch of hops - this definitely has some belgian yeast in the mix. Light to Medium-bodied; Assertive belgian characteristics of yeast, cloves, spice, herbs, bananas and even bubble gum with a kick of bitter grassy and herbal hops finishing it out. Aftertaste shows a good deal of hops with a nice kick of bitterness and the pungent yeast qualities of the strain with a bit of dry herbal notes. Overall, I wasn’t expecting much from this, and after seeing the ratings, I was expecting even less. That said, if you ripped this label up and put a ’Stone’ Canadian-Belgian IPA screenprint on this, it would have great ratings. It was a solid beer that I am happy I brought back to the states - nice to sample - fresh, too! I sampled this 341 mL bottle purchased from Au Coin Duluth in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on 20-September-2014 for CA$2,59 sampled at home in Washington on 01-November-2014 just six weeks after the purchase.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(341ml bottle from a friend) Pours a murky brownish orange, tons of deep tan lees and a small white head of big bubbles, short-lived. Aroma of caramel and Munich malts, herbal hops, slightly spicy, a little lemon, cidery esters, quite yeasty rather than hoppy. Flavour again caramel malts, some Munich, cider, lemon balm, floral, lightly bitter. Fairly light body, high foamy carb, slick. Don’t really know what’s going on here, lots of malts vs. hops in the English style but a bit of a runaway yeast train for an IPA, and not always in a good way. Othewise I’d call it an English-style bitter. It’s not a drain pour, but it’s not great either.