8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Super hazy golden and straw coloured body with a fairly thick four centimetre tall pure white head that fades relatively quicklyi but leaves an ugly lace on the sides, above the 90 per cent opaque yellow body. Aroma of grass, pine, hay, flowers, light grain with a hint of pineapples here and a small dose of fairly noticeable yeaast - but not smelling like other Kveiks I've had. Medium-bodied; Fairly crisp, grassy and perfumey flavours up front with a bite of pineapples and even a touch of passionfruit noticeable, but no real tartness at all, with some hoppy bitterness from the alpha acids at the end make this more IPA-like. Aftertaste is dry, crisp, fairly malty and showing more like an IPA than a saison (or fruit beer) but the line is close, but regardless, the complexity is very nice with the yeast here, but also some light fruit notes play out nicely with the hops and supportive malts providing the balance. Overall, a very nice IPA with mellow fruits and even more of a mellow kveik/yeast profile, but complexity throughout and pretty easy-drinking and low alcohol makes this very nice and worthy to bring home across Canada and the US in a suitcase! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Jak's Liqour in South Granville, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 01-July-2022 for CA$4,29, packaged on 16-June-2022 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 24-August-2022.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jan 2024
at 07:01