fiulijn (28382) reviewed Kataja from Steel & Oak Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Growler, tasting at Josh’s
Hazy brown. The aroma is earthy, a bit dusty, and bready. Some rye bread flavor, it has some residual sweetness,, correct bitterness, no juniper. Balanced. An ok beer.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Kataja from Steel & Oak Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Growler - Rye and grains. Dark copper with a decent beige head. Lots of rye and other grains with a touch of spice. Not getting the juniper.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle - Yeast and raw wood. Cloudy gold with almost no head. Sweet, light smoke and raw wood. Weirdly ok.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Tortuga from Steel & Oak Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
650mL bottle, pours a reddish brown with a medium beige head. Aroma is bizarre, with vinegar, rum barrels, and medium sour berries. Flavour is dominated by woody rum barrels, medium sourness and vinegar. The rum is extremely prominent, as well as the vinegar and sourness. Rather abrasive but also harmonious somehow. Quite good.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Tortuga from Steel & Oak Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle - Balsamic vinegar and some herbal aromatics. Cloudy deep brown with a light brown head. Woody, light tartness and some herbal woody bitterness. Not bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at Big Rock Urban Brewery, Vancouver
Murky amber color with medium head. The smoke and the banana aroma blend well together, with an earthy trace. Good body structure, wheat and some smoke, but a bit too muddy, the yeast contribute s negatively, adding spice and soap; some soap feeling probably comes from orange peel.
Not bad, but dirty and confused.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at Whole Foods on Cambie, Vancouver; 12oz
This was brewed about 3 months ago.
Murky brown color with small to no head. Still decently chilled at the tine of pour. Differently from most BC breweries, Steel & Oak managed to get a deep malt aroma and flavor out of this beer, then combined with a large amount of vanilla oakiness; it’s robust, sweet, strong bodied. Almost smokey in the final, must be the wood, and sweet tobacco leaves.
Very good, and it should play very well with the wine barrels for the next release. It would actually deserve a bit higher score, if it were cleaner.
crit200 (5324) reviewed Windrose from Steel & Oak Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Black with tan head.Light roast coffee nose.Palate of light roast, dry malts with light bitterness in finish
Oakes (33493) reviewed Barley Wine - Oak Chips from Steel & Oak Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask, Whole Foods Cambie. Muddy light brown with a thick head. Aroma is figgy, sugary. On the palate the oak chips lend a noticeable character and their influence on the beer, cutting the sweetness and rounding out the rich figs and estery base beer is a welcome influence. This BW definitely will appreciate a barrel program. n fact, I’m not 100% sure I would want this without the oak chips.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Blackthorn from Steel & Oak Brewing 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught @ Alibi Room. Hazy and amber, with a bunch of toastiness, and really just a yeasty note, and mostly just a boring ESA..