Gerbeer (8214) reviewed Blame Canada from Backcountry Brewing 8 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
473 ml can. Pours a reddish brown with moderate head. Aromas of sweat, corn, and thin toasted malts. Flavors of grain and corn with medicinal/floral notes. What makes this Mexican? Odd.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Cataclysmic Flood from Backcountry Brewing 8 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Pale and slightly dullish yellow, opaque. Looks more Backcountry than Badlands, in that respect. The aroma pops bright and orangey, with some of those more honeyish NZ accents. On the palate, there's some hop burn and the expression is neither as bright nor as defined. There's a pretty strong alcohol taste as well, somewhat unexpected in a regular IPA.
That's too bad - a bit more restraint would have allowed the same hop as in the aroma show through on the palate. The Backcountry base malt is there, but yeah, sometimes the note you don't play is more important than the one you do.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Poured from 473mL can. Chill hazed blonde gold with small white head. Aroma has melon hops and light biscuit malt. Taste definitely has some light diacetyl, fairly crisp, mild melon and pine hops. The NZ vs WC hops clash a bit and the diacetyl brings it down another notch. Meh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
473mL can, pours a cloudy pale golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma has gentle hop tang from the NZ hops, along with subtle tropical fruitiness, and some citrus – doesn’t smell particularly WC-like or that NZ hop prominent. There's also some very feint diacetyl hiding in the back that I thought I might be hallucinating. Flavour is lightly bitter, with citrusy hops, a touch of tanginess (OK, from the NZ hops, especially since I’m confirmation biased to detect them), and a crisp biscuity malt finish. Then there's the diacetyl again. Not as vibrantly NZ-like as I hoped for, nor as assertively WC-like. The faint diacetyl also brings this down a notch. It could be good, but isn't quite.
pictoman (9684) reviewed Blame Canada from Backcountry Brewing 8 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Poured from the tap @ Darby's. Clear copper brown with small off white head. Mild caramel and toasted malt with a feint hint of medicinal notes in the background. Average.
pictoman (9684) reviewed Cataclysmic Flood from Backcountry Brewing 8 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured from the tap @ Darby's. Murky pale yellow with small white head. Lots of juicy tropical hops, just a feint hint of hop burn. Quite nice.
RennyDoig (4553) reviewed Blame Canada from Backcountry Brewing 8 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
On tap at Darby's. Pours clear brown with a white head. Light bready malts and a bit of nuts on the nose. Flavour has gentle bready malts, some nuts. Fairly uninteresting.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Blame Canada from Backcountry Brewing 8 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
On tap at Darby’s, pours a clear dark amber with a small beige head. Nose has toasted bready malt, maybe a hint of dusty nuts. Flavour is soft, with bready malt, light sugars, some earthiness. Not a particularly pleasant malt character, a little clumsy, and just uninteresting. Meh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Opaque. Medium head. The usual Backcountry full body, moderate bitterness, light hop burn and pine accent with mild grapefruit. Not a ton of variance on Backcountry hazies but are any better than Widowmaker?
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Gold, small white head. Piney cat pissy nose and palate with some soft malt in back. Very nice