Helsdon
Toronto, ON, Canada 🇨🇦 MemberOptions
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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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6/10
Can from the brewery. Toasted malt, with distinctive ashy notes, syrup sweetness. Some bitterness in the finish. Fine not stellar.
Tried
from Can
at
Granite Brewery
on 05 Apr 2026
at 22:20
Helsdon
added a new beer
Peculiar Strong Ale
by
Granite Brewery
3 months ago
7.5/10
Bottle from LCBO in Toronto. Taste is aserbic sour, with vinous notes, mildly sweet with raspberry and mild tropical on the finish. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2026
at 19:01
7/10
Bottle from the LCBO in Toronto. Nose is booze, sweet malt and strong chocolate. Taste is notable boozy notes, syrup sweetness with strong chocolate over toasty malts. Lingers with a lingering bitterness on the finish. Decent quad, a little syrupy however.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2026
at 23:51
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle LCBO in Toronto. Wow, this is delightful. Soft bready malts, mildly sweet with a mild sourness. Really well balanced. That salt makes things pop, and it's indistinct but the cilantro makes things almost juicy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2026
at 00:14
7.5/10
Bottle LCBO in Toronto. Really nice. Roasted malt a little doughy, mildly sweet, some grapes. Nice bright lingering taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2026
at 00:45
Helsdon has a new country beer tick achievement
Level 1 for Netherlands ticks with a total of 5 from this country.
Piranha Tripel from Stadshaven Brouwerij was the one that did it!
4 months ago
6.5/10
Can from an LCBO in Toronto, Canada. It's tough finding a good tripel here in Canada, besides the biggest of the usual Belgian suspects, so had to give this one a try. Taste is sweet malt, mild ester, vague, flat tropical fruit, fairly heavy on the bittering hops on the finish. Decent but that bittering hops is throwing off the balance.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Feb 2026
at 01:19
7.5/10
Bottle lcbo. Esters and stonefruit, vanilla and oak. A decent tripel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Feb 2026
at 00:22
7.5/10
Bottle from the lcbo. Pours a vaguely cloudy copper, with a finger of off white head. Taste is sweet malts with toasted notes, esters, some bitterness and some Citrus pith plastic. Your thought makes any sense. It's good, good balance
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2026
at 23:31