Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can : Gold with small fast fading white head.Grainy nose. Bland slightly sweet malt flavor....basically a macro, but nothing offensive.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Hazy deep amber,lasting beige head.Fresh citrus hop nose.Citrus hop profile,lots of hops in finish, both bitter & citrus. Needs more malt presence, but still a solid effort.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Hazy amber,fast fading head.Alcohol nose with muted banana/apricot.Taste of malt,brown sugar,bananas,med alc heat. Flat/lifeless
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Can, from the Central City beer store
Golden colour with largish bubbles. Somewhat continental graininess in the nose with apple notes and herbal hops. Body is a bit thin - certainly the watery character emphasizes a lack of body, making it seem thinner than it probably is. Light apple notes come in late, and the malts are doughy. The finish is an amalgam of dough, apple, and water. Not CC’s finest hour.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Draught at the brewery: Bright amber. Woody, flowery, powdery hop nose. Sweet, soft sugars temper resiny hops, with hints of pine, melon, grapefruit, mandarin. Smooth but insistent bitterness washes over the palate. Very fresh hop character and an incredible sense of balance.
Cask at GCBF: Vibrant, hazy amber. Assertive chinooky, amarilloish aroma. Sweet and fruity character, with amarillo and pommelo and some sugary notes to balance it off. Nice brew with a good sense of balance. Ar 7 Ap 4 Fl 8 P 4 O 16 = 3.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Had this on tap at the brewery. I didn’t take notes but it was better than a 2.3 so I’m going to bump the score up a bit closer to what I had out in Surrey.
Cask, GCBF: Bright amber. Candyish, caramelly, bubblegummy aroma. Fairly fizzy and sticky body. Really, really sweet - very candyish. Unbalanced - some ester complexity starts to salvage it, and the malts are obviously quality, but it’s still too sweet. Ar 6 Ap 2 F 4 P 2 O 9 = 2.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Light amber colour and dead flat. It’s on cask, so it probably looks just fine in other formats. Toasty, woody anisey aroma. Balanced flavour - some great slightly pearlike estery notes along with well-extracted caramel malts and a subtle, earthy hop character. I could do a sixer of this.
Earlier Rating: 12/24/2004 Total Score: 2.9
Light copper colour. Aroma is mainly limey, with a hint of grapefruit. Body is a little thin. Flavour leans towards sweet lime. Slightly bitter - less hopped than the Red, but there’s a lot less malt so it shows a bit more. Finish is dry, light. Re-sampled showed this beer as clean, with better malt character. Still light, but I may have underestimated the craftsmanship previously.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
GCBF. Hazy, vibrant amber coloured brew with a big chipotle nose. The malts and body were a bit thin, but the flavour was fresh and big chipotle. The finish had a mild, insistent heat. I can’t call it a masterpiece of beer, but I’m a huge chipotle lover and so I liked it anyway.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Railway Club, Vancouver. Labelled as Kettle ESB. Amber colour with lasting of white head. Odd beer, some malty berry flavour, some nicely balanced hop. Nice malt/red fruit aroma. Some nice spicey hop on finish. Dries the roof of the mouth on finish. Bit of yeast on aroma. Quite full in mouth. Then too strong hop on finish rather throws it out of balance. Drinkable though.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Gary wasn’t available, so I couldn’t find out much about this. Light brown, long lasting beige head.As it warms it has a tantalizing carmel malt nose. Very light mellow malt flavor throughout