Category 12 Brewing
Microbrewery
in
Saanichton,
British Columbia,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Category 12 Brewing
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
473mL can, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma reveals a very rich rum barrel character along with roasted malt, molasses and burnt sugars. Flavour is likewise very rich, with intense rum barrels, roasted malt and burnt sugars. The rum is strong but not brutal and actually quite well-calibrated. Extreme but not brutal. Excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Mar 2023
at 05:11
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
2022 vintage @8.5%. (Packaged Aug ‘22). 473 ml can. Pours amber with moderate head. Aromas of earthy Belgian yeast, including bananas and cloves, a bit of rubber, and soft wheaty malts. Flavors are cleaner and crisper; banana, corriander, cloves, lemon and wheaty malts. Nice
Tried
from Can
on 09 Mar 2023
at 00:28
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
473mL can, pours jet black with a medium brown head. Aroma is rich, with lots of oak barrels, followed by gentle maple syrup (thankfully) and a hint of vanilla. Flavour is extremely rich, with lots of rich roasted malt, maple syrup, deep oak, and burnt sugars. Nothing subtle about this -- very big, rich, deep flavours finishing on plenty of oak. Very tasty, if a bit over the top.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Mar 2023
at 03:42
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
473 ml can. Pours a deep copper color with moderate foamy head. Aromas of doughy malts, limes, pineapple, fruit pie and some dank resiny hops. Flavors of doughy malts and dank hops with a little pine and citrus. Mostly big malts, but nice enough.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Feb 2023
at 01:30
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
473mL can, pours a cloudy muddled orange with a small beige head. Aroma is full of intense rum barrels, with lots of booze, caramel and rum. Flavour is extremely boozy and somewhat harsh, with tons of rum, booze, and caramel. Lots of rum and booziness. Harsh.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Feb 2023
at 06:52
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Poured from 473mL can @ Weathered 2023. Near black with minimal beige head. Rum, molasses, hint of wood glue, woody feint chocolate. Meh.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Feb 2023
at 07:27
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured from 473mL can @ Weathered 2023. Near black with minimal beige head. Oaky, hint of woody toast, chocolate. The oak is a little bit young tasting, but decent overall.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Feb 2023
at 07:23
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Poured from 473mL can @ Weathered 2023. Clear amber with small beige head. Mild booze, raisin, oak barrel. This one lacks depth.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Feb 2023
at 07:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured from 473mL can. Clear amber with small off white head. Rum, caramel, dark fruits. Could use a touch more depth, decent.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Feb 2023
at 07:09
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Poured from 500mL bottle. Hazed amber with small white head. Dried fruit, sticky toffee and caramel malt, touch of bourbon on the finish. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2023
at 04:16