6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
16oz can pours out amber topped with a sand head. Nose is sweet pitfruit some grain and a little spice. Taste is more of the nice sweet grain malts some spice and a little pitfruit.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Aug 2023
at 19:26
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
473 ml can. Pours an orange brown with full head. Aromas of doughy malts, dark spice, figs and raisins. Flavors follow same with additional copper but also a little diacetyl…
Tried
from Can
on 16 May 2023
at 23:10
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle found on Saltspring Island. Pours with huge foam, not too dense though, and a rather stormy semi-murky brown body. The aroma is sweet biscuit, slight hops. Taste is mostly a wet biscuit with brown sugar notes. Finishes wet again. Smooth enough but there's not much going on here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2021
at 01:07
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Okay murky copper body and some decent foam. Smells of soft honey and caramelly malt. Taste is soft sweet biscuit, honey hints, graham cracker. Smooth finish. Checks the boxes off but not greater than the sum of its parts.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2021
at 18:09
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Medium clear gold body with and medium foam. Smells of okay sweet lager hops, corn hints. Taste is all soft sweet hops, a little wet. Easy and simple but certainly not memorable.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2021
at 18:07
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark clear brownish red body and almost no foam. Smells of good tart raspberry, sweet, mango not really noticeable. Taste is very nice tart raspberry, some grain on the back end. Crisp carbonation and nice lingering maltiness. Enjoyable, a little simple, but it delivers.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2021
at 18:04
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Good haze, milky even, with some modest foam. Smells of nice tangy pineapply hops, almost overbearing. Taste is good pine, pineyness, sharp chalk, ends crisp and dry but still refreshing. Nothing new but well balanced.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2021
at 16:55
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Okay foam on a light clear gold body. Smells of strong septic ginger on some peppery grain. Taste is nice fresh ginger, working well with spicy cereal notes. Crisp and dry finish. Not bad, a little simple for what it is but delivers what's advertised.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2021
at 16:53
4.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 1
Flavor 6
Texture 2
Overall 4.5
Pours with nice big pink foam and carbonated deep pink body, the smell is all tin and sugar - could it get any more unappealing? Flavour is soft rustic blackberry and very mellow wheat grain but there's this awful dog hair aftertaste that makes me cringe sipping it. There's unrefined beer, and then there's this.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2020
at 21:56
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Found this stray bottle at the Ganges LDB. It's a spring seasonal but I went for it anyway because I'm an egregious ticker. Looks great - a nice reddish-brown colour, bright, with a thin head. The nose is almost toffee it's so rich - a really deep caramel, sweet as heck. It's the same on the palate - very sweet, rich caramel, toffee, some burnt notes. Big body, alcohol in the finish, and some rye chewiness. It's well-balanced, with hop, alcohol and rye all lending different elements to the palate. Then I noticed the abv - at 7.4% it's a doppelbock, stronger than Celebrator or Andechs, the two best of style for me. I'm digging this - it gets no distro obviously but would love to get my hands on some next spring.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2020
at 05:02