Oakes Profile - Brewver (Dev)

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

Oakes (34489) reviewed

Petrichor from Temporal Artisan Ales (Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦)

1 year ago

8.3/10 — 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

Oakes (34489) reviewed

Chips & DIPA from La Cerveceria Astilleros (North Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦)

1 year ago

6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6

Has a decent orangey hop, maybe a shade tart. The taste is a bit muddled, save for that orangey note…but the malts really don’t do a good job of providing structure. Some good elements but did they come together…not so much.

Tried from Can from Cascadia Liquor Stores (Nanoose Bay) on 20 May 2025 at 02:41

Oakes (34489) reviewed

Chilly Bin from White Sails Brewing (Nanaimo, Canada 🇨🇦)

1 year ago

6.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5

Looks like oxidized dried apricot. The aroma also brings a fair amount of stone fruit sort of jammy. On the palate it’s got a fair bit of malt, good body, and that same hop character, maybe with some pears. Decent. The thing is that it’s a bit murky…elements not clear and mostly that’s too much yeastiness for the malts.

Tried from Can at White Sails Brewing on 20 May 2025 at 02:41

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Zumo from Four Winds Brewing (Delta, Canada 🇨🇦)

1 year ago

7.5/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8

Slight haze, pale, thick head. Aroma is lemony, pale malt, light herbals, grassiness. On the palate, lots of malt, pale and clean, slight alcohol in the finish, mellow hop notes.

Tried from Draft at Four Winds Brewing on 20 May 2025 at 02:40

Oakes updated a beer: Zumo brewed by Four Winds Brewing
1 year ago

Oakes updated a beer: Five for Fighting brewed by Barnside Brewing Co.
1 year ago

Oakes (34489) reviewed

Five for Fighting from Barnside Brewing Co. (Delta, Canada 🇨🇦)

1 year ago

6.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5

Opaque, quite pale, thick head. Good body, but lowish bitterness. Light fruity hop, not much. A bit of huskiness. It’s okay, definitely needs a bit more hop.

Tried from Draft at Barnside Brewing Co. on 20 May 2025 at 02:38

Oakes (34489) reviewed

Tamarack Cold IPA from Barnside Brewing Co. (Delta, Canada 🇨🇦)

1 year ago

7.5/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8

Gold, bright, medium head. There’s not much on the nose but the palate has a bright berryish fruitiness, big pale malt, medium bitterness. The Tamarack hop is a semi-feral grown here in a project with KPU, I’ve been a fan of both beers they’ve made with it. And this one, look, this is as clean and well-structured as anything I’ve had from Barnside.

Tried from Draft at Barnside Brewing Co. on 20 May 2025 at 02:37

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Oude Rode Ogen from White Sails Brewing (Nanaimo, Canada 🇨🇦)

1 year ago

6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6

Reddish-amber, thin head. Sort of a plasticy phenol character. Some dried fruit, lots of alcohol. Somewhere between a sticky tripel and an uncomplex quad.

Tried from Draft at White Sails Brewing on 20 May 2025 at 02:36