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updated a beer:
Evergreen West Coast IPA
brewed by Mariner Brewing
1 week ago
mcberko (47051) reviewed German Export Lager from Mariner Brewing 1 week ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Mariner, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma is a bit muffled, with toasted grains and earthy, bready malt. Flavour is crisp, with a nice bitter grassiness, some herbaceousness, and crisp crackery malt. Much cleaner on the palate than the taste. Crisp, clean, reasonably biting.
mcberko
updated a beer:
German Export Lager
brewed by Mariner Brewing
1 week ago
mcberko (47051) reviewed Lights at Lafarge from Mariner Brewing 1 week ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Mariner, pours a clear dark reddish brown with a small beige head. Aroma has dry toasted malt, and some muffled earthiness. Flavour is fairly dry, with toasted malt, some earthiness, and very gentle sweetness. Clean and reasonably constructed. Pleasant.
mcberko
updated a beer:
Lights at Lafarge
brewed by Mariner Brewing
1 week ago
mcberko (47051) reviewed Belgian Triple from Mariner Brewing 1 week ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Mariner, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma has some spicy Belgian yeast, coriander, and a touch of esters. Flavour is much the same, with spicy Belgian yeast, gentle esters, not too much sweetness. Huh… this is actually pretty solid—doesn’t fall victim to the usual problems that North American brewers usually fall victim to in this style. Solid!
mcberko
updated a beer:
Belgian Triple
brewed by Mariner Brewing
1 week ago
mcberko (47051) reviewed Inconceivable! from Rewind Brewing 1 week ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Rewind, pours a red-tinged dark brown with a small beige head—looks pretty thin. Aroma is pretty restrained, with gentle cocoa and toasted malt—not getting the barrels. Flavour is much the same, with toasted malt, soft bourbon, and some cocoa. There’s a nice lingering woodiness from the barrels. The body is pretty thin, and the beer lacks complexity; but the construction is actually okay and the barrels elevate this reasonably well.
mcberko (47051) reviewed Big from Rewind Brewing 1 week ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
On tap at Rewind, pours a clear copper golden with a small white head. Aroma reveals grapefruit peel, some resinous hops, and bready malt. Flavour is full of bitter grapefruit peel, some resinous hops, earthiness, and some sweetness. Poorly balanced and integrated; just doesn’t come together.
mcberko (47051) reviewed Spiceworld Ginger Beer from Rewind Brewing 1 week ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
On tap at Rewind, pours a clear pale golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma reveals a lot of spicy ginger peel—like a dirty chunk of ginger that hasn’t been peeled or washed. Flavour is a little cleaner, but still pretty earthy/dirty, with little actually ginger slice and more of the peel that you usually want to discard. Not very satisfying.