Oakes
Vancouver, BC, Canada 🇨🇦 AdminOptions
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Very pale, opaque, bubbly head. Slightly spicy hop nose, lean pale malt, a hit of citrus rind.
Tried
on 11 May 2025
at 22:14
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pretty sure this was the one at Magnet a few months ago. Opaque, not much head. Big pasionfruit, light citrus and coconut. Good tartness, some malt, actually quite well balanced and refreshing.
Tried
on 11 May 2025
at 22:13
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Hazy and quite pale. Bubbly head. Light pine, some herbaceous hop as well…thyme and sagey things. Fairly bitter. Malt is sweet and somewhat weak but I like that hop character.
Tried
on 11 May 2025
at 22:11
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Medium brown and muddy-looking. Lots of cinnamon on the nose, chile, and a bit of chocolate. Light body, lets these flavours down…mexican chocolate is usually served very rich. So trying to do it in some 5%ish format feels like not really trying. And it isn’t mole. Mole and chocolate are two different fucking things…the usual cultural appropriation from Small Gods.
Tried
on 11 May 2025
at 16:46
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pale, slight haze, medium head. Slightly herbal hop note. Soft malt, slightly biscuity. Lowish bitterness despite a nice hint of pine. It’s okay…the malt expression is close but not 100% there.
Tried
on 11 May 2025
at 16:45
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hazy, pale, med head. Sort of yeasty, gloppy malts with an unusual hop character…floral and simultaneously sulphury? Not coming together for me.
Tried
on 11 May 2025
at 16:44
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark brown. Thin head. Excessive hazelnut aroma, seems artificial, on the palate it’s actually more a fat bourbon, lacking refinement. Damn. The base isn’t bad, light dark sugars and a touch of roast, mild hazelnut overtop, but a really heavy-handed bourbon treatment. It does all the things, and doesn’t do them badly, but doesn’t do them well either.
Tried
on 10 May 2025
at 20:11
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
This is a salted caramel imperial porter. Not bad…some artificial caramel but tastes good in context with the roasty and slightly fruity base.
Tried
on 10 May 2025
at 20:10
Oakes
updated a beer:
Illicit Cargo II
brewed by Smugglers Trail Caskworks
1 year ago
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Rich gold, thin head, light fruity hop, full pale malt, good body. Oh, this is right on for Bavarian pils, despite the apparent Hamburg reference. I like it.
Tried
on 10 May 2025
at 20:09