Wood Brothers Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in Glen Robertson,
Ontario,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Wood Brothers Brewing Company
Established in 2018
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
(473ml can shared by Luc, thanks!) Pours moderately hazy orange-gold with an average white head and a little lace. Notes of deep citrus, particularly grapefruit and navel orange, smooth pineapple-mango type orange tropical fruit, moderately bready pale malts, soft florals and cannabis, moderately sweet up front with a light to moderate bitter finish, some resins and citrus with dank overtones but not as 'green' as many WB beers, moderate alcohol warmth. Medium-full bodied, slick to creamy, with smooth carbonation. Good triple, fairly balanced while being intense, not too sweet but a little boozy. Nice brew.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
(500ml bottle shared by Luc, thanks!) Unbelievable gusher when opened, though well beyond the very short 'open by' date. Liquid was an opaque dull reddish colour while the head was a brownish pink loose froth with tons of fruit chunks in it, not attractive. Despite the mess, notes of sweet cherries, pineapple, moderately tart slightly citrusy lactic sour base is largely offset by maple and sweet fruit. Not so much cinnamon and heavy maple syrup but a woodsy spicebox vibe played nicely with the fruit. Full-bodied and thick, obviously a mess with the foam over and high levels of fruit purée but past date one can say it's a risk. Seems like there's a consistency problem between bottles like there is on tap suggesting the puree isn't staying well-mixed during serving or bottling; the WB smoothie flavours are great so I hope that can be ironed out.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(473ml can from the brewery) Pours a quite hazy orange-gold with a decent white head and lace. Aroma of very floral hops, potpourri with lychee and guava, grapefruit, some fresh grass and light cannabis. Flavour is fairly dry and floral from the off, again a lot of tropical perfumed flowers with some lychee/guava undertones, lime peels, grass, light resins, tingling metallic sort of astringent twang, soft biscuity malt, quite dry finish with lots more floral and resinous notes and some more lime peel giving light and peppery bitterness. Light to medium body with average carbonation. Solid but lacking a bit of pop as is typical for their canned offerings, and a bit atypically floral for the hops used I thought.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(473ml can from the brewery) Pours very hazy deep orangish-gold with a small white head and scarce lacing. Aroma of ample melon mix with bright lemon/grapefruit axis citrus, grass and a little soap. Flavour is quite dry for style even up front, with pale melon, fruit rinds, soapy florals, grapefruit peel, peppery hops, light pale malt, finishing bone dry with relatively low bitterness but a lot of soapy citrus and lightly peppery grass notes. Lighter body, oily, soft carbonation. Interesting, but the soapy melony vibe is not quite my favourite; I think I'm finally getting a handle on Strata and my conclusion is that I like it as a supporting hop. Interested to see this series move to other hops though.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
(On tap @ the brewery, Dec 19 2020) Pours somewhat hazy bright red with a small white-pink head and a little fruit pulp. Notes of bright juicy tart Rubus berries, less heavily earthy or deep blackberry but more on the red berry tip, subtle stone fruit type floral acidity, solid lactic citrusy bite, finishing crisp and berry-laden. Lightish body with soft carbonation and a few pips. Confusing with the variability of how these smoothies were pouring at the brewpub, I think some glasses were much more pulpy, but this was excellent even without the fruit solids.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
(On tap @ the brewery, Dec 19 2020) Two pours, one a lightly hazed bright red liquid with a decent pinkish cap and a little lace, the other thick dark red fruit pulp with a lavender rocky head of froth. Confusing, thought I mixed the 2 Sure Sure available up because some glasses looked very different than others around me. Notes of sweet tart jammy blackberry and Rubus pulp with moderate peachy stone fruit floral sweetness and some lactic bite, nice minimal pip bitterness, nice restrained acidity into the finish. Mouthfeel was very different between the two glasses, with the liquidy one light and watery and the other thick and smoothie-like with soft carb. Delicious stuff as expected, though some way of getting the kegs to pour consistently viscous would be good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
(On tap @ the brewery, Dec 19 2020) Pours opaque dull orange juice coloured with a small white head and a little lace. Notes of dense sticky mango, cannabis, grapefruit, floral tropical fruit, nice lightly sweet bready malt, intense mango floral weed finish cuts through the juice with leafy resinous hops giving moderate bitterness but pretty low hop burn. Medium bodied, somewhat creamy carbonation. Excellent DIPA with big hop concentration, not a pure sweet syrupy expression of Citra but getting at all its sides to good effect.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(On tap @ the brewery, Dec 19 2020) Pours fairly hazy medium orange with a decent white head and lace. Notes of quite sweet mango nectar, pineapple and sweet orange juice, sweet fruity pale malt base, quite soft yeast expression, fairly light on the grassy and resinous quality for Wood Bros, finishing off dry with light citrusy bitterness and a hint of alcohol warmth. Medium bodied, slick, softly carbonated. For two breweries who specialize in quite 'green' IPAs, this was not so much down that axis. Good but lacked the punch of the Double Triple Citra drank beside it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
(On tap @ the brewery, Dec 19 2020) Pours nearly opaque gold with a thick white head and some lace. Notes of zesty orange and grapefruit, some citrus and mango juice sweetness, nice herbal earthy grassy notes to it especially from the middle on, finishing fairly dry with light to moderate bitterness. Light to medium slightly creamy body with soft carbonation. Nice balance on this one, though my palate may have been lightly fatigued by trying to drink the alpha lion's share of our orders to keep the DD safe!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
(500ml bottle shared by Luc, thanks!) Pours black with a decent sized tan head. Notes of choco-vanilla wafer in melted semi-sweet chocolate, nice fairly dry roasted dark malts, solid toasted nuttiness though not really peanut per se, moderate dark coffee lending bitterness, maple touches but hardly a syrup bomb; nose is a bit more classically pastry but in the mouth never passes mid-sweet with a nice dry slightly bitter finish with the nuts and coffee keeping things dry and almost dusty. Light to medium body for style, soft carbonation, no real booze. Excellent pastry in that the adjuncts are doing lots without being cloying, and it's a bit of a candy bar stout rendered much less sweet than is the current fashion.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.96 |
| Beers | 282 |
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