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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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!
10 months 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!
10 months ago
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from the brewery. Whores a magenta, that's fairly clear ring of pink head, with active carbonation. Taste is fresh raspberries, with a slightly aserbic bite, with some funky socks. Active carbonation. A really vibrant, refreshing fruit. Exceptionally well done.
Tried
from Can
at
Great Lakes Brewery
on 06 Sep 2025
at 22:20
Helsdon
added a new beer
A Different River - Raspberry
by
Great Lakes Brewery (Canada)
10 months ago
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can pick up from the brewery. Pours a very cloudy yellow orange, with finger thick head. Flavour is very hoppy, as you would expect, with orange zest and citrus jumping up, and dominating, middlingly sweet cereal malts, with a slight bitterness, and a little booze, which is unexpected. Tasty and really well done. A new favourite from Slake.
Tried
from Can
at
Slake Brewing
on 05 Sep 2025
at 22:15
7.5/10
The third beer I picked up on my drive-by of this Brewery. Exactly as a hazy IPA should look. Very bright flavor, tropical fruits little bit of resin, a fair bit of citrus too. Over a fairly dry, hay malt. Minor bitterness, an little citrus pith on the finish. Tasty and quite nice.
Tried
from Can
at
All My Friends Beer Co.
on 26 Aug 2025
at 23:01
4.3/10
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Appearance 1
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Can bought from the brewery. I recently had Gusher # 11, and it was thick and juicy and clearly carbonating in the can. This one of the series might be the ugliest beer I have ever seen. Now, I normally don't care on how a beer looks, but... pours a murky, thick almost viscose looking halloween vibrant green/blue. Nose is vanilla and sugar. Taste is sugar, mostly pineapple, but syrup and vanilla too. It's thick. Mild carbonation bite, but not much visible bubbles. And if there is any sour in this one, I'm not getting it. I can't but wonder, is this what they intended? #11 was brewing away in the can, this is low fizz and very sweet. Was there supposed to be a secondary fermentation that didn't happen? And why is it that color? Just a bunch of dye I supppse.
Tried
from Can
at
All My Friends Beer Co.
on 25 Aug 2025
at 23:39
7/10
Can from the brewery. Decent density ans mouth feel, with soft carb. Taste is bready malt, with green herbals and vague citrus. Mild bitterness in the finish. Decent lager.
Tried
from Can
at
Slake Brewing
on 22 Aug 2025
at 23:19
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Can from the brewery. An overall strong undercurrent of tangerine citrus, with mildly sweet dry-grass malts, a little salt, with a forward layer of bitterness pervading over it all. The bitterness is quite detractive. Having bought one of each beer in their brewery cooler during my visit, and working my way through, this bitterness is starting to feel ubiquitous. Hmmm...we'll see.
Tried
from Can
at
Slake Brewing
on 22 Aug 2025
at 19:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 7
Can from their lovely brewery. Light hay malt, with bitter hops with citrus and apricots supporting. Lingering solid bitterness in the finish. Good, a little bitter, but decent.
Tried
from Can
at
Slake Brewing
on 21 Aug 2025
at 17:03