Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
On tap at Brewhouse, pours a hazy amber/light brown with a small off-white head. Aroma brings out candi sugar, some estery notes from the Belgian yeast, and dark fruits. Flavour is somewhat tart for the style, with candi sugar, gently tart red fruits, and moderate estery notes. Totally inauthentic — shouldn't be tart and there's no real complexity. The palate is light and the booze is a bit perfumey. Valiant attempt to do such a style but it needs a lot of work. Not good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
On tap at Brewhouse, pours a clear copper, no head. Nose is full of balsamic, light Worcestershire sauce, and some gentle tartness. Flavour is rather acetic, with balsamic notes, Worcestershire sauce, and moderately bracing tartness. Not authentic at all—too much balsamic and acetic, but not awful. Passable but not as a Flanders sour.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Brewhouse, pours a dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma brings out soft toasted malt and light earthiness. Flavour is smooth, with toasted malt and a hint of dry cocoa and English bready malt. Smooth and drinkable but not terribly exciting. Good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
On nitro tap at Brewhouse, pours a clear copper with a medium white head. Nose is rather metallic, with metallic astringency and bready malt. Flavour is much the same, with bready malt and metallic astringency. There's some diacetyl in here as well. Dry, metallic, bitter, and buttery. It's fine but this is like drinking pennies. How can this brewery make garbage like this for so long? That's Mark James' brand for you.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Clear medium gold body and little foam, rotting cabbage on the nose. Flavour is 7-up with rotten hop hints in the background. You know, after a few hundred pilsner beers brewed around the world I realize how hard it is to do one well - this thing is a mess, most won't notice, but it sure does make me appreciate the good ones.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Soft sweet coffee on the nose, curdled beige foam on a black body. Flavour is soft sweet barley, sugar, vague coffee notes. Full on the mouth, straight ahead but will do just fine after a day of mountain biking in this noisy brewpub.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Middling hazy yellow body and minimal foam, very soft wheat and rotting orange on the nose. Flavour is muddy hops, awkward sweetness, badly assembled with nothing you'd hope to expect from a hazy IPA. Though if you're in Whistler and already drunk, does it matter?
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Clear copper body and little foam, chewy sweet hops with a bit of malt on the back end. Flavour is more chewy hops, oily, overly sweet. Full on the mouth but rather cloying. Overbearing, really.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Darker clear brown body and small foam, vague sweet barley on the nose. Flavour is smooth hazelnut, barley hints. Full on the mouth. Straight ahead but certainly a good crowd pleaser.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
Medium clearish copper body and small foam, very vague watery caramel on the nose. Flavour is weak caramel, and I mean really weak. Double the density or something, this stuff is just too watery.