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Helsdon

Toronto, ON, Canada 🇨🇦 Member

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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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Helsdon updated a beer: Mosey brewed by Slake Brewing
8 months ago

Helsdon (1082) ticked

Mosey from Slake Brewing

8 months ago

8/10

Honestly this feels like another beer than my peers, or the brewery's description. I'm getting some funk on this, a little pepper, a little bitterness, over bright hay malt, mildly sweet, vague stone fruit, pretty clean finsih. It's great. Is this what everyone else is getting? Did a get a mislabed can? Did a bug get in there? If so do it again. Can from the brewery.

Tried from Can at Slake Brewing on 22 Nov 2025 at 01:34

Helsdon (1082) ticked

Together We're Bitter Maggie's Farm from TWB (Together We're Bitter) Co-Operative Brewing

8 months ago

6.5/10

Decently thick grassy malt, mildly sweet. Watery chocolate notes that hold throughout, with lingering bitterness. Can from St. Jacob's Market.

Tried from Can on 16 Nov 2025 at 00:26

Helsdon (1082) reviewed

Spring! from TWB (Together We're Bitter) Co-Operative Brewing

8 months ago

6.3/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6.5 Texture 6 Overall 6.5

Ya.....so it's past spring,.past summer infact, and well into fall. My wife bought this one at the St. Jacobs Market, but I'm just getting to it now. I've stored it well, at least. Taste of sweet syrupy, but not overwhelming, grassy malt, a sharp bitterness that rides throughout, chocolate and some grapefruit. Balance isn't great

Tried on 09 Nov 2025 at 02:05

Helsdon added a new beer Spring! by TWB (Together We're Bitter) Co-Operative Brewing
8 months ago

Helsdon has a new beer style achievement

Level 6 for Pale Ale ticks with a total of 75 ticks of this master style.
Empowered from Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) was the one that did it!
8 months ago

Helsdon (1082) reviewed

Empowered from Great Lakes Brewery (Canada)

8 months ago

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

Pours a slightly cloudy golden, with a finger of solid fluffy white head. Taste is plain straw malt that works to support solid citrus and grapefruit, both zest and some pithy bitterness, some vauge resin. Finish is mild sweetness balanced by a lingering citrus bitterness. Great balance. Good beer. Can from the brewery.

Tried from Can at Great Lakes Brewery on 05 Nov 2025 at 23:52

Helsdon added a new beer Empowered by Great Lakes Brewery (Canada)
8 months ago

Helsdon has a new beer style achievement

Level 3 for Wheat Ale ticks with a total of 15 ticks of this master style.
Kerplunk - Mango wheat ale from Elora Brewing was the one that did it!
8 months ago

Helsdon (1082) ticked

Kerplunk - Mango wheat ale from Elora Brewing

8 months ago

6.5/10

Pours very cloudy blonde with thick white head. Taste is mildly sweet, but flat hay malt, with light but fairly indistinct mango, with a lingering, but notable bitterness. Meh. Can LCBO

Tried from Can on 02 Nov 2025 at 23:51