Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Amber color, hazy, with compact head. It offers a good combination of cereals, dryness, and ashes, while the aroma is delicately fruity (yeast esters I suppose). Very strong bitterness, some chicory in the finish.
It’s not my favorite style, but this one comes from south of the border and you immediately feel the difference, sharper and cleaner than the local ones.
Quite nice.

2016-06-07, draught at The Cascade Room, Vancouver, 10oz, 6-4-6-3-12=31
It’s in better shape than the previous time, resiny, a bit pithy and vegetable though, without diacetyl.

2016-05-13, draught at Stateside Craft, Vancouver; sleeve, 6-4-6-2-12=30
Golden color, just hazy, with compact head. The aroma is too mild. The malt flavor is not bad but quite timid, it has a respectable bitterness level, some vegetable resins with it, but not enough hop qualities, and some traces of diacetyl. And now I have to swallow the whole glass…
Mediocre IPA with a minor flaw.

Draught at Stateside Craft, Vancouver
Black color, beige head. Aroma of caramel, maple syrup, ice cream. Lean mouthfeel, sour, with some roasted malt, and a vegetable/herbal touch probably from the walnuts.
Nocino is a liquor made with green walnuts; it’s sweet and in no case is acidic.
Unpleasant beer.

On tap at The Cascade Room, pours a clear golden wth a medium white head. Aroma brings out piney hops upfront, followed by dry biscuity malt. Flavour is along the same lines, with piney hops galore and crisp crackery malt. Well-balanced with a piney hop astringency on the finish. Nicely made - better than the average ratings so far.

Hybrid of American and English style IPA it seems, since apart from two classic New World hops, an even more classic English noble hop is used. Label mentions an ABV of 5.25% rather than the 5.6% given here, but strangely the brewery’s website also shows the label with 5.25% while mentioning 5.6% in the accompanying text next to it... ’Membranous’, continuous lacing from a medium thick, irregular, egg-white, moussy head on top of an immediately hazy, deep peachy orange coloured beer. Aroma indeed has traits of both ’hop worlds’: orange peel, sweet curry, dried ginger, wet straw, faint pine resin, cooked carrot, white pepper, vague iron, strawberry juice, chicken broth, dried apricot, honey, freshly cut cucumber. Fruity onset but not in a ’wildly’ estery way, just subtle and clean hints of apricot, dried mango and gooseberry, with a slight salty edge from the hops turning to bitter already at an early stage; carbonation remains on the soft side. Underneath, a bready, lightly biscuity malt body develops with a very lightly toasted accent, supporting the hop bitterness which by the end becomes very earthy, resinous, thoroughly tonic water-like bittering and peppery, but not hugely aromatic, apart from some floral and dried citrus peel-like hints; earthy bitterness lasts for a long time and only lets a thin trail of malts through, along with some subtly bready yeastiness. If the idea is to compromise between old English IPA and new American IPA, I think this goal has been relatively well achieved. It has an earthy, tonic water-like bitterness to it which seems more typical for old world hoppiness, while, however, the lush New World aromas underachieve - at first I thought this was due to the age of the bottle, but as far as I can tell, it is not thàt old and the other reviews here seem to convey the same. In all: deeply bittering, quenching and drying IPA, just not fragrant enough, and the faint cooked chicken-like accents in the nose give away that something is a bit ’off’ and out of balance here as well. Among the lesser American IPAs I had so far.

On tap at April Brews Day, pours a hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is quite smoky, with notes of salt, citric tartness and lacto. Flavour is identical, with lots of smoke and salt. Well-structured and balanced. Very nice.

Draft - Soft smoked grains. Cloudy yellow gold with a decent white head. Light smoked earthy wheat. Subtle and nice.

Sample at Tap House Grill. Clear pale golden color with a thin white head that evaporates quickly to an outer ring. Spotty lacing. Aroma of bready malt, fruit and slight hops. Light-bodied with flavors of biscuit malt, fruit and slight grassy hops. The finish is sweet with a short malty aftertaste. Barely average overall.

Draft pour pint at Scuttlebutt. Rating from notes. Clear copper pour with tons of foam head and lace. Very mild aroma of subtle hops. Flavor is bready, slight spicy malt, citrus peel, bitter hops. Very refreshing pale here, and got better as it went. Lots of oranges in the flavor, especially late. I’d growler this for a day on the water.