Deeply underachieving beer snob. I'll occasionally have a drink, and when I do I want it to be a good one. Oh, and if I give a detailed rating on a beer, rather than a quick tick, you can ignore the specifics. I don't need to judge appearance, or whatever. I just don't want to leave a rating rounded to the nearest .5, like the quick tick limits you to.

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Helsdon (1118) reviewed
Plush from Slake Brewing (Picton, Canada 🇨🇦)
1 year ago
7.5/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7.5 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can from the brewery. Nice soft, mildly sweet, doughy malts. Some mild almost berry fruit esters. Pleasant.
Tried from Can at Slake Brewing on 20 Sep 2025 at 22:40
Helsdon (1118) ticked
Long Sleeves Amber Ale from Slake Brewing (Picton, Canada 🇨🇦)
1 year ago
6.5/10
Pours a nice amber. Taste is toasted biscuit with some medium syrup sweetness under, some almost.off flavour bitterness, with almost a touch of funk, which lingers. The overall balance is good, just the bitterness is a little too funky. Can from the brewery.
Tried from Can at Slake Brewing on 19 Sep 2025 at 23:04
Helsdon (1118) reviewed
Yes (Cherry) from Slake Brewing (Picton, Canada 🇨🇦)
1 year ago
6.4/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 5.5 Flavor 6 Texture 7 Overall 7
Can from the brewery. Very fruit forward, lots of sweet natural cherry flavour eclipsing the mild malt, with a barely-there sourness. Not bad, but really not much of a sour. It would have been better served with more of a sour bite.
Tried from Can at Slake Brewing on 15 Sep 2025 at 23:10
Helsdon (1118) reviewed
Wendy from Slake Brewing (Picton, Canada 🇨🇦)
1 year ago
7.9/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
Can from the brewery. Pours a blonde with a sheet of white head. Taste is smokey with biting oak, that mellows to vinous grape notes, and an ashy, edgy bitterness in the finish. Complex. There is alot going on here, but tasty and interesting. Worth the try.
Tried from Can at Slake Brewing on 10 Sep 2025 at 23:19
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Helsdon (1118) reviewed
Lazy Waves from Kawartha Lakes Brewing (Amsterdam Brewing) (Peterborough, Canada 🇨🇦)
1 year ago
6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
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Soooooo..... apparently KLB is back. Bit of a struggle categorizing this one. Clearly KLB is just a brand to be leveraged. It was for years owned by Amsterdam, who purchased the brewery back in 2003. Afterwhich Amsterdam would knock out some.of their classics. But then that stopped. But Amsterdam got bought in 2022 by Royal Unibrew, who apparently has decided to revive the brand. The result this beer. It's not great. It's only passingly hoppy, mostly some citrus, some mild bittering, a touch of resinous, but generally pretty moderate, all over a biscuit cereal malt base. The "easy drinking" in the commercial description is of course a huge red flag. Give this one a pass. Draft from the Fox and John, Bloor West Village, Toronto
Tried from Draft on 10 Sep 2025 at 02:22

Helsdon updated a brewery: Kawartha Lakes Brewing (Amsterdam Brewing) located in Canada
1 year ago

Helsdon updated a brewery: Amsterdam Brewing Company (Canada) located in Canada
1 year ago

Helsdon has a new beer style achievement

Level 1 for Farmhouse - Sour Saison ticks with a total of 5 ticks of this sub style.
A Different River from Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) was the one that did it!
1 year ago
Helsdon has a new beer style achievement

Level 7 for Farmhouse ticks with a total of 100 ticks of this master style.
A Different River from Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) was the one that did it!
1 year ago