6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
473 ml can. Pours amber with moderate head. Aromas of grainy metallic malts and old hops. Flavors of same. BBD is 5/25/24 so maybe past it’s prime.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jul 2024
at 02:21
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
650 ml bottle. Pours a very dark mahogany with no head. Aromas of dark fruit, plums, burn sugar, and toasted malts. Flavors follow same with some additional phenolics.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2023
at 22:58
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Poured from 650mL bottle @ Weathered 2023. Clear-ish amber with minimal white head. Underlying roast coffee, feint dark fruits, very feint hint of vanilla. Underwhelming, odd combo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2023
at 07:50
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pale amber, oniony sort of aroma but on the palate there’s some stone fruit as well, apricot mostly. Sticky malts but also medium bitterness. Still quite sulphury.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2022
at 04:26
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at the Alibi Room, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out bright piney hops, a hint of citrus, and crisp crackery malt. Flavour is crisp, with a nice piney hop character and crisp crackery malt. I don't get any butter thankfully. Crisp, biting and dry finish. But it's just really timid. Meh.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Nov 2022
at 07:10
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
473 ml can. Pours a very dark brown with full nitro head. Aromas of creamy coffee and roasted malts. Flavors of roasted barley, mineral water and sweetened dark chocolate. Nice and easy to drink.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Oct 2022
at 00:02
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Can from The Gull, North Vancouver
Blond colour, darker shade of blond, with just some chill haze, otherwise it's quite clean; medium sized head. Delicate aroma, more fuity than piney, it seems sweet. Medium body, lean, with light residual sweetness; I appreciate that the malts are not sticky, on the other hand, they are not adding much either; the hopping is ok, balanced bitterness and timid aromatics, piney resins; but there is also, quite clearly, some butter here.
I'm not a diacetyl nazi, so I'm going to drink it, others may be offended by this. Modern West Coast IPA, but the execution is mediocre.
Blond colour, darker shade of blond, with just some chill haze, otherwise it's quite clean; medium sized head. Delicate aroma, more fuity than piney, it seems sweet. Medium body, lean, with light residual sweetness; I appreciate that the malts are not sticky, on the other hand, they are not adding much either; the hopping is ok, balanced bitterness and timid aromatics, piney resins; but there is also, quite clearly, some butter here.
I'm not a diacetyl nazi, so I'm going to drink it, others may be offended by this. Modern West Coast IPA, but the execution is mediocre.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Oct 2022
at 07:12
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Can from Jak's Parkcrest, Burnaby
Amber colour, clean. Aroma of bready malt, and flour paste. Lean body, very much Lager-like; a bit of flavour from those darker malts that is typical (and correct) for the style, but without depth, and getting weaker in the finish.
It's ok, at least it's not just an Amber Ale.
Amber colour, clean. Aroma of bready malt, and flour paste. Lean body, very much Lager-like; a bit of flavour from those darker malts that is typical (and correct) for the style, but without depth, and getting weaker in the finish.
It's ok, at least it's not just an Amber Ale.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Mar 2022
at 03:37
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pale gold with slight haze. Light bitterness, light fruitiness. Malts are a bit sticky. Everything is just sort of ok, mind you.
Tried
on 13 Mar 2022
at 06:26
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Gold, not much head. Bergamot and vanilla for sure, so it comes across creamy, mild tartness. Lemon? Not sure, because of the other citrus. Light tannins.
Tried
on 13 Mar 2022
at 06:25