Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle - Smoke, iodine, and roasted malts with some dark fruit. Jet black and thin brown head. Smoky and some chocolate, but seems a bit thin and one dimensional. Not that great.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Powell IPA from Coal Harbour Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle - Grapefruit, orange, spice and some nice malts to balance. Clear dark amber and an off white head. Very dark for an IPA. Orange pith, grapefruit and lots of malt (toffee) which balances the bitterness nicely. Although this beer doesn’t have the typical West Coast IPA unbalance that i like, the balance makes this very sessionable with a clean finish. Simple but well done.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Cask at Central City Winter Cask Fest '13, pours a hazy orangey amber with a few bubbles of off-white head. Aroma of fruity caramel malts, English hops and tropical fruits. Flavour is very bizarre, with a crappy amalgamation of hops and malts, with a slightly sour tropical fruity finish. Not much in hop character and fairly syrupy malts. Way off the mark here.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
2018-04-01, can from Denman LRS, Vancouver, 8-4-8-4-17=41
Black color. Lovely smoke aroma, birch or whatever they use in Bamberg, and some peat for added complexity. Lean body, just mildly sweet, with an excellent malt base, almost no roast (and I like that), huge smoke flavour, a touch of liquorice that I'd like to not feel; the malt is a bit weak in the finish, but there are traces of chocolate. The alcohol is very well hidden.
Wonderful local beer, decent alternative to the unavailable Schlenkerla Urbock.
2013-01-01, bottle from Legacy Liquor Store, Vancouver, 7-3-7-4-16=37
Dark color, almost black, with small head, frothy fizzy and quick. The aroma is vaguely similar to tempura dip (tentsuyu), some dark caramel and mild smoke. The mouthfeel is leaner than expected for its size; there is a quite strong flavor of dark caramel, nice but moderate smoke, peat, and an impression of tentsuyu; in the final there is some apparent sweetness. The bitterness level is quite low.
The mouthfeel, the fermentation and the head retention should be tuned, but the rest overall is very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
650 ml bottle. Pours a dark amber with little head. Aromas of toffee and malts. Flavors of light pine, citrus, caramel, and tasted malts. Quite nice though a little flat.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Poured from a 650mL bottle. Dark brown (almost black) with no head. Sweet smokey, leather, molasses smell. Sweet smoked jerky taste. Thick creamy texture, but with no carbonation. Would I buy it again? Absolutely, but not often (every now and then kind of beer).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 1
650 ml bottle. Pours a copper color with light head. Aroma of burnt plastic. Flavor is much the same. A touch sour with acidic grainy notes. Yuck.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cloudy gold,fast fading white head.Light smoky wheat nose.Palate is both smoky and tart. Interesting!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Sparkling gold,small white head.Small bead.Salty nose.Somewhat astringent palate,fatty hints. Light spicy hop finish
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
650 ml bottle. Pours a fairly clear light copper color with light head. Aromas of light malts and fruit. Flavors of malt and grain plus dry dusty fruit - can’t really place as blackberry.