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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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Slight haze. Bright brett aroma. Thin head. Slight tartness, the grapes are bright. Good balance. Solid fruit, good body. Maybe a touch sharp in the finish.

Tried from Draft at Threefold on 20 May 2025 at 02:43


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

Dark brown. Thick head. Expressive aroma of pine, rosemary, sage, chocolate. Basically the gin barrel takes the black IPA concept into overdrive. It’s kind of the same on the palate - herbaceous and piney, bitter, grapefruit. All these really good things all at once. A touch yeasty, with a chocolate and toasted malt sweetness.

Tried from Draft at Threefold on 20 May 2025 at 02:42


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Poured from 330mL bottle. Murky dark brown with no head. Fairly spiced, cinnamon, nutmeg, touch of sassafras, a bit molasses-y, bitters barrel forward, could use a touch more body. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 12 May 2025 at 03:34


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Poured from the tap @ 3Fold. Dark brown with small beige head. Roast malt, oak and gin infusion with feint background hops. Comes together really nicely.

Tried from Draft at Threefold on 25 Apr 2025 at 04:44


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

Bottle pour from 3Fold. Medium purple red with no head. Nice balaton cherry character, nice buggy complexity. Quite nice. Aging in the bottle for a while probably softened the acidity.

Tried from Bottle at Threefold on 25 Apr 2025 at 04:36


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Poured from the tap @ 3Fold. Hazed blonde gold with small white head. Light tartness, vinous gerwurtz underlay, decent.

Tried from Draft at Threefold on 25 Apr 2025 at 04:30


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

12oz @ Ryan's (thx for the beer!).
Aroma: sweet, bold, dark fruits, caramel.
Taste: along the same lines.
Overall: it has a nice complexity and balance between caramel, dark fruits, and some hoppy bitterness. Good one 👍

Tried from Bottle on 20 Apr 2025 at 05:10


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Poured from 330mL bottle (finally rating this since I didn't rate it when I first tried it since I was on a date and only checked it in on Untapped - gave it what would be a 4.3 on Untapped on Dec 11, 2023, but no description). Dark brown with minimal beige head. Nice caramel and dark fruits, barrel seems to have fallen off a bit with age, but still traces and quite nice.

Tried from Bottle from The Gull Liquor Store on 20 Apr 2025 at 04:44


7.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

12oz bottle. Pours murky brown with a small beige head. Brown bread malts, brown sugar, and bourbon on the nose. Flavour is very bready, some raisins, bourbon barrels. Rich and chewy mouthfeel. Nice.

Tried from Bottle at Threefold on 18 Apr 2025 at 23:00


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

330mL bottle. Pours a deep, murky brown with almost no head. Very nice bourbon barrels, dark fruit, and chewy caramelized sugars on the nose. Flavour is very rich, lots of bourbon barrels, dark fruit, and gooey toffee; some burnt sugars on the finish. Palate is smooth. Fantastic complexity; the bourbon barrels complement the base beer very well. One of the best Temporal products I've had.

Tried from Bottle at Slow Hand Beer Co. on 18 Apr 2025 at 03:32