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pictoman

Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 Member
Ratebeer refugee (started Oct 19, 2012; ratings at Ratebeer demise: 8882)

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

Poured from 473mL can (pkg 10/24/2024). Very dark brown with small tan head. Nice roasty nose with mild peppermint. Taste is lots of peppermint upfront with underlying roast malt and a feint hint of chocolate. Very nice base beer with a novelty adjunct.

Tried from Can from The Gull Liquor Store on 13 Jan 2026 at 09:29


6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Poured from 473mL can (should have opened this sooner, but kept putting it off hoping someone might share it with me; alas, no opportunity arose and now I just want it out of my fridge, probably about 6 months old, but no date stamp). Clear amber gold with white head. Dull muddled stone fruit hops, biscuit and crystal malt underlay, very feint pine finish. Not awful, it does look decent.

Tried from Can from Jak's Beer-Wine-Spirits - New Westminster on 07 Jan 2026 at 10:43


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Poured from 355mL can (pkg 2025/12/04). Very dark brown with beige head. Mild roast and molasses with light bourbon booziness. Seems a touch muted, but balanced nonetheless.

Tried from Can from Jak's Beer-Wine-Spirits - New Westminster on 07 Jan 2026 at 09:45

gave a cheers!


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Poured from 473mL can. Cloudy dull yellow with full white head. Subdued citrus and tropical hops, a sort of biscuity wheat-like base. Sort of yeasty. Average.

Tried from Can from Jak's Beer-Wine-Spirits - New Westminster on 07 Jan 2026 at 08:39


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Poured from 473mL can. Hazy bright yellow with small white head. Subdued tropical hops with very feint tang. The hops taste a bit old, lacking brightness, yet the beer seems to have been released in the past couple months (at least in cans). Average.

Tried from Can from Jak's Beer-Wine-Spirits - New Westminster on 07 Jan 2026 at 07:22


pictoman updated a beer: Night of Light brewed by Dewey Beer Co.
3 weeks ago


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Poured from 350mL can (bb 2026.04.29). Hazy medium pastel orange with small white head. Smoked sour woody peat aroma with feint fruit, taste is strawberry upfront with peat and soft apple pear mid palate and some bittering hops on the finish. Some flavour clash, but interesting.

Tried from Can on 03 Jan 2026 at 02:28


pictoman added a new beer Reindeer by Brew Beast
3 weeks ago


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

Poured from 473mL can (pkg 09/12/2025). Dark brown with small off-white head. Toasted nuts, mild bread crusts, light lagery corn malt adds some sweetness, finishes with bittering hops. Would make minor adjustments to the balance - slightly less corn malt and bitterness on the finish. Otherwise, okay.

Tried from Can from The Gull Liquor Store on 05 Jan 2026 at 10:26