Macaloney's Island Distillery & Twa Dogs Brewery
Microbrewery
in Saanich,
British Columbia,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Victoria Caledonian Brewery & Distillery
Ceud mile fàilte gu an clann
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Aroma of yeast, grain, citrus, hints of hay, very nice. Has a very big solid foam body and soft light orange body. Flavour is nice yeast funk on chewy grain. Mouthfeel is full and crisp. A fine saison.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Soft gold body with little foam, nice sweet citrus funk and salt on the nose. Flavour is more good citrus and saltiness with a crisp finish. Straight ahead for the gose world but sometimes that's just what you need, this is perfectly decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Has nice heavy yeast funk on the nose with just some grain, nice big foam on top of a heavily carbonated muddy yellow body. Flavour is a middling mix of caramel and wheat with soft hop notes. Mouthfeel is full enough. It's barely adequate but drinkable.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Very modest white foam on a very clear light yellow body. Smells of sweet tea and hops, simple but refreshing. Flavour is more hops with some sweet leafy notes. Dry finish. Not a bad IPA, in no way brut, but will work for those of whom are afraid of the style.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Has a great big solid foam on top of a semi-muddy brown body. Smells of good sweet lemony malts. Flavour is nice sweet biscuit, good and chewy. Mouthfeel is full but the alcohol becomes a little cloying and tinny. It's a nice ESB, not bad, not great.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Has weak clear yellow body little foam. There's very soft sourness on thr nose and nothing else. Flavour is soft sourness and flavour that comes across like dried motor oil on pavement. Crisp enough on the mouth. This is not a good effort.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Smells of fake raspberry notes and a hint of sweet malt. There's murky brown body and little foam. Flavour is chewy sweet maple and malt, bourbon forward. Flavourful but sweet. Very sugary on the mouth. There's nice flavours but they come across as untamed.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Has good malt and sweet hop balance on the nose. Nice clear brownish gold body and a bit of foam. Flavour is bright hops, good oil, malts complement it well. Nice balance of oil and malt on the mouth. A well executed pale ale.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Muddy brownish black body and okay foam, soft sweet barley on the nose and nothing else. Flavour is muddy caramel sweetness and molasses. The porter is missing - this just tastes like its untreated ingredients.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Very clear almost translucent body and little foam, soft grain smell that comes across like seashells. Flavour is very dry grains backed by hops. Bone dry finish. Kind of okay but actually too dry, a beer like this needs a refreshing component that is lacking.