Nano Cinco

Brewpub in Ville de Québec / Québec City, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Nano Cinco

Established in 2021

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236 3e Rue, Ville de Québec / Québec City, G1L 2S8, Canada
Description
Brasserie avec salon de dégustation/bar située à Québec dans le quartier Limoilou.

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7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
(473ml can from the brewery) Pours quite hazy deep gold with a huge white head that fades slowly leaving heavy lace. Aroma of fresh conifer needles and leaves, lemon and grapefruit, ripe peach, fresh weed, kind of skunky. Flavour is lightly sweet, mix of semi-ripe peach and nectarine, touch of mango, grapefruit and lemon peel, citrus pith, biscuit malt, some fresh conifer needles, finish is quite dry with biscuity malt and some cereals, citrus pith and light bitters, earthy pine, pretty neutral yeast, light bitterness. Green but not in the hop burn way, more of a really old school hop profile minus the bitterness. Light body, touch watery, average carbonation that is a little creamy. Not a fruity jam but solid stuff.
Tried from Can on 08 Jul 2023 at 21:45

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
(473ml can from the brewery) Pours very hazy orange-gold with a thick white head and very heavy lace. Aroma of floral lime peels, lime candy, white grape, green melon, tart passionfruit without the musky side, slighly bready malt, very high and bright tones overall. Flavour is again high, light and bright - juicy lightly tart passionfruit, white wine, juicy lime, pale orange, a little guava floral component, soft white bread malt, lightly sweet throughout the sip without a heavy drydown, zero bitterness, finish and aftertaste are lime powder candy, touches of green berries, thiols, lingering passionfruit feel. Fairly light-bodied for style, super creamy to compensate, quite softly carbonated. Definitely not your typical DIPA, especially with the contribution of the passionfruit in the Kohia Nelson (my first experience with this product). Fun and refreshing with no sign of the ABV.
Tried from Can on 15 Jun 2023 at 11:12

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
(473ml can from the brewery) Pours rather lightly hazed orange with a tight off-white head and some lace. Aroma is very ripe and dank/piney mango, peach, preserved oranges, grapefruit peel, a little pine needle and some herbal/peppery overtones. Flavour is moderately sweet, malt presence is felt for sure, again very ripe mango and peach, citrus preserves, grapefruit peel, definitely residual sugars and a little alcohol giving a slight fruit liqueur feel to it, very fruity yeast, a little brioche roundness to the malt. Finish is moderately dry thanks to the alcohol and a little presence of grapefruit bitters, some pine resin, slightly herbal, not really peppery, light citrus acidity to counteract the lingering ripe fruit/malt liqueur vibe. Light to medium body for style, fairly soft carbonation. Solid TIPA straddling the boundary between a haze bomb and a sweeter maltier style. Good stuff if not quite what I think they are capable of TIPA-wise.
Tried from Can on 11 Jun 2023 at 15:28

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
473ml can. Hazy, yellow-ish, bright golden colour with average, fluffy, moderately lasting and lacing, white head. Citrusy fruity hoppy aroma with minimally papery, cryo-like overtones, notes of lemon, a touch of yuzu, rather unspecific hints of orange citrus fruit, fennel overtones. Taste is slightly dry, slightly papery, minimally artificial, citrusy fruity hoppy, sweet-ish, minimally sugary, malty basis, hints of lemon, sweet pineapple, slight cryo aspects, later the aforementioned fennel touch comes in again. Watery texture, smooth and soft, simultaneously slightly dry palate, medium, mildly prickly carbonation. Quite artificial fruit flavours in a double sense: not only that the hop flavours aren't exactly the fruit flavours, they even don't seem to be hop induced, fruit simulating flavours; all rather feels like sugar and a kind of hop powder dissolved in water, restrained and aseptic - not really convincing.
Tried from Can on 09 Jun 2023 at 20:55

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
(On tap @ the brewpub, June 3/23) Pours nearly opaque pale orange-gold with a thick white head and good lace. Notes of fairly ripe mango, grapefruit and orange zest, lightly tart cittrus pulp, semi-sweet melon, earthy and piney greenness, fruity yeast, fairly sweet through the sip and drying lightly in the finish, good presence of piney resins with grippy orange and grapefruit peel, light herbal peppery hop cone vibe in the aftertaste. Medium-plus body, fairly creamy, softly carbonated. Cool exploration of some experimental hops that I'm not familiar with at all, playing with the Citra-Amarillo mango/orange axis.
Tried from Draft on 07 Jun 2023 at 14:21

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
(On tap @ the brewpub, June 3/23) Pours opaque pale banana milky yellow with a thick off-white head and heavy banana pulp 'lace'. Aroma is brightly floral/perfumed and a bit tropical, very clear presence of passionfruit and pear with the ripe banana sweetness underneath providing some structure. Flavour is more banana-forward, quite ripe, juicy and slightly musky passionfruit florals for balance, finish is definitely more pear-forward, perfumed but not overly so, fairly sweet overall with light acidity, touches of bitter pear with a little muskiness in the finish. Medium-plus body, creamy with just a little gritty pear (largely hidden by banana), quite softly carbonated. Really fun mix of fruit, on the floral side as expected but with strong banana presence.
Tried from Draft on 06 Jun 2023 at 22:25

8.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
(On tap @ the brewpub, Jun 3/23) Pours opaque purple-red with a thick pale pink head that fades slowly with fruit pulp 'lace'. Aroma is dominated by ripe sweet/tart cranberries and a nice presence of gin, backed by a blend of ripe forest berries (especially raspberry), some richer earthier tones too, touch of maple sugar in the back. Flavour is lightly sweet and moderately tart despite the maple addition, acidity is more berry than lactic, obviously a fair amount of Rubus but brighter cranberry notes and the earthy, tannic quality of blueberry/blackberry, promient boreal coniferous gin presence, herbal and a bit menthol/spicebox peppery, maple sugar there without much sweetness. Finish is nicely gin-soaked with ripe and slightly grippy berries and a touch of herbal tea/gin bitterness. Medium-bodied, pulpy, softly carbonated, nice mouthfeel. Superb mix of flavours here, the gin-soaked cranberries are complex and sublime. This is the least sweet of the Sirop series and more cocktail-like. Cool!
Tried from Draft on 06 Jun 2023 at 22:24

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
(On tap @ the brewpub, June 3/23) Pours moderately hazy deep gold with a thick white head and heavy lace. Notes of fairly heavy orange and grapefruit (pulp with some zest), mango and peach behind, quite sweet with some cereals and brioche, some floral/pineapple Galaxy in behind, herbal with very light coconut, semi-sweet finish with grapefruit and orange peel, some flowers and a little herbal kick, light to moderate bitterness. Medium-bodied, oily, fairly soft carbonation. A bit sweet and a quirky hop bill but quite drinkable.
Tried from Draft on 06 Jun 2023 at 22:22

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
(473ml can from the brewery) Drank from the can. Notes dominated by a mix of mandarin, tangerine and grapefruit, pulp and peel both, backed by some pit fruit and maybe light floral stuff, notable presence of very earthy pine and herbal component, real hop cone vibes actually, bready malt, lightly sweet, some drydown into the finish but not really crispy, orange and grapefruit peels, cannabis, lots of earth, moderate plus bitterness, light astringency into the aftertaste but no hop burn. Medium-plus body, oily, smooth creamy carbonation. Really interesting because it's so different, and yet doesn't express some of El Dorado's more annoying features. Must be the Cascade helping out, because it reminds me a little bit of other NE-grown Cascade beers. Cool.
Tried from Can on 06 Jun 2023 at 22:20

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
(473ml can from the brewery) Drank from the can. Notes of bright sweet orange and ripe pineapple, some moderately ripe mango, lightly tangy aspect (pineapple again?), floral melon and papaya, brioche malt, moderately sweet, drying into the finish though the malt is still present, mixed citrus peels, herbal/grassy, touch of pine resin, melon, low hop burn. Medium-plus body, fairly oily, average carbonation. Nicely crafted if a little bit of a weird hop bill, managed to execute on it all the same. Would have liked to try this one again in better circumstances actually.
Tried from Can on 06 Jun 2023 at 22:16