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Tried on 10 Jul 2020 at 18:00

7.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
473mL can, pours a deep dark manga onto with a large beige head. Nose seems authentic, with a nice bouquet of candi sugar, dark red fruits, molasses, and gentle esters from the Belgian yeast. Flavour reveals the Belgian yeast upfront, with light bubblegum, red fruits, molasses, candi sugar, and alcohol. It avoids being cloyingly sweet or too bubblegum-y—yay; that's hard for non-Belgian breweries to do apparently. This is well-made.
Tried from Can on 10 Jul 2020 at 03:13

7/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
473mL can, pours black with a small beige head. Aroma brings out lots of oats and moderate toasted malt. Flavour is moderately sweet, with oats, toasted malt, and lactose. Medium-bodied, with just a touch of sweetness. Very good.
Tried from Can on 09 Jul 2020 at 05:40

4.8/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
Can from Legacy LRS, Vancouver
Filthy golden colour. Smells vegetable. Sweetish upfront, a bit chalky, low bitterness, and big vegetable component.
This is really bad.
Tried from Can on 02 Jul 2020 at 07:27

5.2/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 6
Murky and kind of greyish. Big fluffy head. The aroma is sort of a canned peaches and alcohol thing. On the palate, it's similar. Lots of those canned peaches, a bit of alcohol, muddled malts. It is pretty messy, certainly not as accomplished as the session IPA.
Tried from Can on 27 Jun 2020 at 02:46

6.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cloudy and pale. Thin, bubbly head. The aroma is fairly strong, weedy, and a bit orangey as well. The body is light. There's a sort of tobaccoey note, along with some papaya. The malts are really thin here, a bit too much, but it doesn't make the beer bitter. It just makes it light and thin. So all told, not bad, but much better on the nose than on the palate.
Tried on 26 Jun 2020 at 23:41


7/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Dark brown, thin bubbly head. Very thin head. Rich barrel on the nose, sticky dark sugars, a bit boozy. On the palate it's got some rich sugars, again quite a bit of barrel but better integrated on the palate than the nose. Just enough bitterness. Light fruitiness leaning towards the raisin family. Decent stuff.
Tried on 31 May 2020 at 04:44

6.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
The recipe is pretty generic, so in that sense it's a fairly straightforward hazy IPA, fruity, yeasty, that sort of thing. Clean. Malts are in the background, bitterness fairly low. Pretty typical hazy, nothing wrong with it.
Tried on 28 May 2020 at 17:04

5.1/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
16oz at Alex's. Appearance: terrible dirty straw with a white head. Aroma: dirty fruits, maybe some vegetables, some sweetness. Taste: along the same lines. Overall: total meh, typical Russel :-/
Tried on 27 May 2020 at 04:11