Spark Beer
Microbrewery
in
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Spark Beer
Contact
6/10
A hazed blonde yellow ale with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with resinous floral hops, light citrus, pleasant and smooth. In mouth, nice biscuit malt with resinous hops, light citrus pulp, nice and smooth. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Aug 2022
at 18:48
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Fairly filtered, golden colour with an amber hue. The head is on the warm white side, big, frothy, decent stay and thick foamy lacing. Big grassy-hoppy aromas of a West Coast-style with a mild caramel malt base. Enough bitterness, grassiness and dryness. Very grass-oriented hop flavours. Not the craziest hopbomb, but quite hoppy and grassy all-around.
Tried
on 11 Aug 2022
at 02:16
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Slightly hazed, golden colour with a pinkish hue. Fizzy, big white head disappearing quick enough, leaving a tiny ring of miniature bubbles. Some lacing comes out of it as more pours come along. Sour, funk nose with some fruitiness. Sour, puckering cherry taste with the raspberries blended in the background and a nice drying finish. Another decent fruity-sour from Sparks, but not my favourite of them.
Tried
on 04 Jul 2022
at 01:34
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Slightly hazed with a few unfiltered particles. Golden-amber colour with a purple hue. The head is off-white, average retention and some good sticky lacing. Sour aromas with some hints of vanilla and plum. The plums are present in the taste as well, but if you not a fan of this fruit, you might not notice that is what it is. Just an easy, well-balanced, lightly fruity sour beer.
Tried
on 15 Jun 2022
at 03:53
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Was quite surprised to see the new clear bottles at this brewery. It does show the nice colours of their fruity-sour beers. Slightly hazed, amber-pink colour with a fizzy white cap, not much left within a few seconds. Fresh, beautiful berries in the nose with some sourness and hints of vanilla. This continues in the taste. Hard to get the lactose, but their sour Voices Carry are always nice to have, coming from a sour-tired beer fan.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jun 2022
at 00:32
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clean, light-golden colour with a frothy white cap, fizzing away mildly, leaving a foamy coating over the brew. After swirling the bottle, bets hazy. Aromas are a nice blend of grapes and lighter wine vinegars. The taste shows a nice mix of both again, with some decent sourness. More on the grape juices, than Pinot Noir with the woodiness and all. Still, pretty drinkable and easy for a sour - which this brewery is good to brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Apr 2022
at 00:13
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours a slight hazed, copper-brown colour, deeper but still can see light through, giving amber-ruby highlights. The beige-mocha colour head is smaller, but lasting longer than expected. Rich coconut aromas over chocolate and roasted malts. The coconut comes through again in the taste, but not as sweet as expected, balanced with the vanilla and hops. The darker malts form a base, and the mouthfeel is really not that thick. Not bad, and alcohol is well-hidden, but Bas-Canada does dessert beers better for a local treat.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Apr 2022
at 23:12
7/10
A dark reddish brown ale with a thin creamy mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity caramel malt with light maple syrup and alcohol warmth, very nice. In mouth, sweet fruity caramel malt with light maple syrup, alcohol warmth, vanilla, pleasant. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Apr 2022
at 20:22
7/10
A hazed dark amber ale with a thin lacing white off white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with light bourbon barrel notes, light woody notes, alcohol warmth, very nice and smooth. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with light woody notes, alcohol warmth, light buttery notes, very nice. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Apr 2022
at 20:12
6/10
A hazed golden ale with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with light grassy hops, light Brett, light lactic notes, OK. In mouth, sweet fruity malt with light Brett and cork, light buttery notes, OK. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Apr 2022
at 20:06