Spark Beer
Microbrewery
in
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Spark Beer
Contact
6/10
A hazed golden ipa with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, pleasant and smooth. In mouth, a nice biscuit malt with grassy resinous hops, light mineral notes, light citrus, pleasant. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Apr 2023
at 19:29
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clean copper-caramel colour with golden-amber highlights. A big creamy light-beige head with good retention and nice creamy lacing. Toffee aromas with the caramel malts, some grassy hops and floral hints. Even notes of coffee and chocolate do come out. The mouthfeel is thin, but crisp, kind of refreshing with a touch of dryness in the end. Mild roasted malt taste with some decent hop bitterness - for the style. A nice easy-drinking English mild that has lots to offer. Worth having a full pint in the pub.
Tried
on 22 Feb 2023
at 05:00
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
750ml bottle with cap, for Christmas 2022. Celebrating my 50th review for this brewery. Clean caramel-amber colour with some golden highlights. The head is fizzy, off-white, lasting a decent time and a ring remaining. Sour funk nose with medicinal notes, hints of caramel, bananas, apples, vinegar and apricots. The mouthfeel is on the thin side, refreshing, crisp, with a touch of dryness in the end. Some citrus peel flavours, light earthiness, wood, caramel, grapes. Gets hazy as it pours, near the end, and bitterness starts coming out. An easy-drinking Foeder Aged Belgian Pale Ale. Merry Christmas !
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2022
at 00:20
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Second Marzen of the night (other being from Switchback). Clean amber-orange colour with golden highlights. Bubbly-frothy off-white head, average stay and some mild lace. Aromas nicely blended with the caramel straw malts and some herbs from the hops. The fruitiness of the malt continues nicely for the style, and the hops are still present, balancing some grassiness to cut the sweetness. Kind of thicker mouthfeel, but the dryness helps in the end. Not a bad Marzen.
Tried
on 05 Dec 2022
at 03:34
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500ml clear bottle that pours a slight hazed, light-bright golden-yellow colour with a fizzy white head that disappears quickly. Sour fruity nose with a nice blend of the three fruits - nothing sticking out more than the other. The sourness comes out more in the taste, with again the fruits blending together. A nice refreshing sour ale with good citrus and tropical notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2022
at 01:50
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
355ml can that pours a lightly hazed, light golden-amber colour with a big white head, frothy, slightly creamy with good retention and some foamy lacing left. The carbonation is beautiful, active with tiny bubbles. The zest of limes is definitely in the aromas with some grassy hops eventually coming out. The zest adds dry bitterness in the mouthfeel, and this lingers. If you like real zest, hoppiness in a light Pale Ale - this is the one.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Sep 2022
at 22:05
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Hazy red-pinkish colour with a light pink-white frothy head, good stay and some mild lacing. Fruity berry nose with some lactose adding a little sweetness, to balance the sourness. The sour touch shows up in the taste, from the berries, and blended with the black currant, grape and lactose. The milkiness does linger in this one, more than the other of Voices Carry. A nice sour berry-lactose ale.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2022
at 02:48
6/10
A hazed rosey pink purple ale with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with light acidic notes, dark fruits, light mineral notes, OK. In mouth, sweet fruity malt with light raspberry, Epsom salts, light funk, OK. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Aug 2022
at 19:13
7/10
A lightly hazed golden ale with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with cherry pulp, raspberry, light lactic notes, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with tart raspberry jam, light acidity, light cherry, very nice. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Aug 2022
at 19:04
6/10
A hazed blonde ale with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with light grapefruit pulp, light tropical fruits, light mineral notes, OK. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity tart mix of lemon pulp, light tropical fruits, faint mango, Epsom salts, OK. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Aug 2022
at 18:57