6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cloudy orange body and modest foam. Sweet tangerine aroma, slight pineapple. Taste is a smooth pine, ends with slight oiliness. Kind of refreshing, very straightforward.
Tried
on 16 Jul 2021
at 19:51
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Very good foam on a light pale straw body. Soft sweet corn aroma. Taste is clean chewy grain, slight sweetness, ends quite crisp and dry. Okay, the carbonation pretty much saves it.
Tried
on 16 Jul 2021
at 19:44
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
On Tap. Pours back with moderate foamy head. Aromas of vanilla, creamy chocolate and slick roasted malts. Flavors follow same with prominent lactose features. Quite full and sweet without much to indicate a porter, but nice and easy to drink.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Mar 2021
at 01:59
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Was never quite sure if this was, or was not, the pre-existing hefeweizen. That said, here goes. Hazy and tannish sort of colour. Just a thin head, but part of that is using the same glassware for all styles, rather than one that's suited for hefeweizen. Definitely doing that banana thing on the nose. On the palate, it's quite sweet...going in that candied banana direction that a lot of mid-range weizen breweries end up in. It's not unbalanced, but definitely balanced far on the sugary end of the spectrum. A touch of wheaty acidity in the finish. I mean, I appreciate that it's a traditional take on a classic style. I can dig that. The biggest issue for me is the finish, which gets a little soupy...I wonder if it's not turning over fast enough in winter? Cause, yeah, that's diacetyl, and if you don't drink this in the first five minutes it's all she wrote.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Mar 2021
at 21:12
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark brown, touch of red in there, I guess. Medium head. Toasty notes, actually a nice dark malt character. Light body. Decent balancing hop bitterness, and maybe a touch of herbaceous hop character. Good balance on this. I guess called kolsch because of the yeast used - I mean that's not at all the definition of Kolsch but the beer itself is actually pretty good. It's not quite what you'd call a classic brown ale, but it's more like a brown ale/kolschy hybrid thing. Anyway, it's good beer, and classification is just being pedantic.
Tried
on 03 Mar 2021
at 20:45
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Draught at Brewhall, Vancouver
Cloudy dark blond colour. Smells like dirty water. A hint of banana esters, but lack of yeast spiciness, of malt/wheat base, and definitively too little hopping too, hence a short finish; light bubblegum, light metallic feeling. Mediocre.
Cloudy dark blond colour. Smells like dirty water. A hint of banana esters, but lack of yeast spiciness, of malt/wheat base, and definitively too little hopping too, hence a short finish; light bubblegum, light metallic feeling. Mediocre.
Tried
on 12 Nov 2020
at 01:01
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught at the brewery. Gold colour with a thin head. Nice fresh pale malt and herbaceous saaz aroma. Earthy hop bitterness and big pale malt. This is quality - not as smooth as I'd like and the hops aren't poppin' fresh (the best saaz never makes it to North America, let alone BC, so I get it), but it's solid, and the structure shows that they aren't just inspired by Urquell but have actually paid attention to some of the details. We have a few decent pilsners in BC, but this is one of the only decent Boh pils I can think of.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Sep 2020
at 22:13
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap at the brewery. Looks murky with an unsettling peachy colour. I know it's natural but it definitely looks weird, like carrot baby food or something. Thick, milkshakey, lots of grapefruit and sweet hefeweizen. It's okay. It doesn't not work, but it's so thick and heavy that I can't really say it's refreshing, and this is after walking here up the Inglis Trail on a warm day. I wanted refreshing. So it's okay, but not hitting the I just rode my bike here from Sechelt thing a radler should have.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Sep 2020
at 22:10
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Amber-brown colour, bright. On the whole I enjoyed the yeasty fruitiness of this beer, but the malts didn't land for me. Just a simple toasty character, and not much residual sugar or complexity. Same with the hops, just generically woody. So a nice yeast character and little else. Beershine liked it more than I did.
Tried
on 03 Aug 2020
at 16:55
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark brown, with a thin head. This has a nice sticky brown sugar note. Good balance, full body. I like this - as domestic doppelbocks go, this isn't half bad.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2020
at 03:24