Temporal Artisan Ales

Client Brewer in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

Established in 2018

Contact
1507 Powell St, Vancouver, V5L 5C3, Canada
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Description
Temporal Artisan Ales is a brewing project that is crafting delicate oak-aged beers in a shared space at Luppolo Brewing Company in Vancouver, BC. The beers we create are fermented 100% in our oak barrels over lengthy periods of time, imparting delicate complexity. Portions of separate barrels are blended to enhance specific characteristics unique to each barrel. Every beer we release has been meticulously crafted from start to finish.

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7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Aroma has a nice bugginess to it, dry musty grape skins, and a light rustic character. Flavour is moderately tart, with rustic saison yeast, musty grape skins, and light bugginess. Quite tart and bright; I could do with less acidity, more buggy complexity, more grape must, but this is nicely done. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Bière de Coupage on 12 Apr 2025 at 01:29 - Score: Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5. Original review text: Bottle pour at Threefold, pours a fairly clear bright golden with a small white head. Aroma has a nice bugginess to it, dry musty grape skins, and a light rustic character. Flavour is moderately tart, with rustic saison yeast, musty grape skins, and light bugginess. Quite tart and bright; I could do with less acidity, more buggy complexity, more grape must, but this is nicer done.

Tried from Bottle at Threefold on 12 Apr 2025 at 02:50


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

On tap at Threefold, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is pretty fragrant, when plenty of gin, oak, roasted malt, and earthy hops all coherently mixing. Flavour is impressively coherent and clean, with roasted malt, earthy hops, oak, and gin all balanced and cleanly expressed. Odd idea but the execution is hard to argue with. Excellent.

Tried from Draft at Threefold on 12 Apr 2025 at 01:30


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

On tap at Threefold. Pours dark brown with a beige head. Lots of roasted malt, pine, and gin botanicals on the nose. Flavour works really well, the gin botanicals and pine complement each other well, nice roast to balance, smooth oak. Fantastic execution.

Tried from Draft at Threefold on 11 Apr 2025 at 19:00


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

200mL pour at Threefold. Pours gold with slight haze and white head. Wild rustic yeast and grape must on the nose. Flavour has a lot of musty grapes, rustic wild yeast, some phenols. A bit rough, but still quite nice.

Tried from Draft at Threefold on 11 Apr 2025 at 19:00


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6.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

42th Birthday gathering. 750ml (thx, Josh!) @ 🏡
Aroma: fruity, crispy, tart.
Taste: along the same lines, moderately acidic.
Overall: ok.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Mar 2025 at 08:20


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Poured from 750mL bottle (2018 vintage). Clear gold with small white head. Soft tartness, aroma is slightly buttery, at least it’s not acidic. Okay.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Mar 2025 at 07:25


5.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 4.5

330mL bottle, pours black with a small brown head. Nose is sludgy, with harsh cocoa, weird vanilla, and some barrel – very odd and murky. Flavour has a very strange and harsh vanilla character, almost a perfumey bourbon character, and a general sludginess. The base beer isn’t burly enough to support the barrels, but the barrel treatment is just unpleasant. This didn’t work at all.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Mar 2025 at 04:34


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

330mL bottle. Pours black with minimal beige head. Tons of vanilla and burnt sugar on the nose. Flavour has a ton of burnt vanilla, charred wood. Thin body for this ABV. As it warms up, the nose and flavour adopt a manure quality that is pretty unpleasant. Outhouse manure (bad), not farmhouse manure (good).

Tried from Bottle on 15 Mar 2025 at 00:39


7.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Good malt, dark colour. A bit of toffee, soft caramel. Solid stuff. Medium bitterness, well balanced.

Tried on 09 Mar 2025 at 17:57


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Dull brown. There's a nice barrel aroma. On the palate, it is on the thin side, and that really removes the support for the barrel character. Feels like a beer that was better last year.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Feb 2025 at 07:41