Forbidden Brewing Company (BC)
Microbrewery
in Courtenay,
British Columbia,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Forbidden Brewing Company (BC)
- Out of business
Established in 2015
Closed in 2019
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
On tap at Forbidden, pours a dark amber brown with a small beige head. Aroma smells oxidized, with lots of cardboard. Flavour confirms this, with plenty of oxidation, bready malt, and underattenuated, sweet malt. No hop presence, no roast presence. Just an oxidized, lifeless, sad beer. Poor.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Coastal Haze from Forbidden Brewing Company (BC) 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
On tap at Forbidden, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma is loaded with cooked vegetables, some slight herbal hops and biscuity malt. Flavour is loaded with cooked and raw vegetables, with herbal hops somewhere in there. Incompetently brewed and simply unpleasant. Bad.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Session Lager from Forbidden Brewing Company (BC) 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Vegetal and grains. Clear gold with a decent white head. Bitter and vegetal notes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4
On tap at Forbidden, pours a hazy blonde with a small white head. Aroma is infected with diacetyl and rotting fruits, maybe some butyric - oh man. Flavour is unpleasant, with butyric and diacetyl, with little in the way of what should be here. This shouldn't be sold.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Light grains and some raw pumpkin notes, clear pale gold with a decent white head. Raw pumpkin as well with a light bitter dry finish
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
On tap at Forbidden, pours a deep dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma brings out soured fruits, with medium toasted malt. Flavour is a little better, with medium roast, lightly soured fruits, and piney hops. Gentle and a bit off, but it's drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Dark chocolate and cocoa. Jet brown with a small beige head. Bitter pine and chocolate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at Forbidden, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out vegetal notes, herbal hops, and biscuity mate. Flavour is big on the herbal hops, in slightly vegetal territory, and a biscuity malt backbone. Herbal finish. Odd - not quite right.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Coastal Haze from Forbidden Brewing Company (BC) 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Green apple notes. Hazy gold with. Decent white head. Vegetal and earthy with nothing resembling a hazy ipa other than the look.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at Forbidden, pours a hazy amber with a small beige head. Aroma brings out bready malt and subdued earthy hops. Flavour is similar, with earthy hops, toasted biscuity malt and a hint of pine. Hops don't seem totally dialed in, but it's not too bad. Needs some work.