Sax In The Dark
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.

Sax In The DarkSax In The Dark
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From:
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
 
British Columbia, Canada
Style:
Wild Ale
ABV:
5%
Score:
82
Avg:
3.44 | pDev: 18.9%
Reviews:
2
Ratings:
17
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Apr 23, 2017
Added:
Mar 13, 2016
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  3
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Ratings by Tivlavrie:
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Rated by Tivlavrie from Canada (AB)

3.52/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Mar 26, 2016
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.25 by Kmat10 from Canada (AB)

Apr 23, 2017
 
Rated: 2.97 by Graemejw from Canada (AB)

Dec 22, 2016
 
Rated: 3.84 by Svingjo from Canada (BC)

Jun 17, 2016
 
Rated: 1.93 by ILOVEHAM from Canada (BC)

May 23, 2016
 
Rated: 3.71 by bumchilly25 from Canada (BC)

May 22, 2016
 
Rated: 2.6 by chickenm from Canada (BC)

May 13, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by Howlader from Canada (AB)

Apr 21, 2016
 
Rated: 3.09 by Beervana from Canada (BC)

Apr 17, 2016
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Reviewed by Trosevear from Canada (AB)

3.89/5  rDev +13.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
L: Dark brown with a fair amount of white head on the top of it.

S: Personally it smelt like grape cough syrup to me with a little bit of an acidic smell.

T: First sip it tasted like it smelled. Then after it had slight chocolate and a grape taste to it, then it got a little bit of the acidic taste as well bit overall it wasn't to bad.

F: Full bodied with a fair amount of carbonation.

O: A pretty nice beer but I don't think I would buy this one again.
Apr 12, 2016
 
Rated: 3.71 by imfinished from Canada (BC)

Apr 06, 2016
 
Rated: 3.28 by yeaprolly from Washington

Mar 30, 2016
 
Rated: 3.43 by Erik-P from Canada (BC)

Mar 29, 2016
 
Rated: 5 by ilovecbc from Canada (BC)

Mar 28, 2016
 
Rated: 2.8 by xinfernox

Mar 26, 2016
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.54/5  rDev +2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - nice to see Phillips not twisting an ankle jumping on the kettle sour train, eh?

This beer pours a clear, dark bronzed amber colour, with three fat-assed fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat fizzy beige head, which leaves some weirdly isolated forest profile lace around the glass as thing quickly blow off.

It smells of musty red wine, um 'must', grainy caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, very subtle cafe-au-lait, muddled dark fruity notes, an ethereal generic funkiness, plain bittersweet cocoa, and very gentle earthy, weedy, and leafy hop bitters. The taste is much more obviously tart lactic acerbities - sour milk chocolate, lightly fouled homemade red wine (been there!), and a touch of free-range funky yeast - some supportive bready and caramelized malt, and very little in the way of counterbalancing hoppiness.

The bubbles are quite generous in their intensely frothy, and lesser fizzy manifestations, the body a solid medium weight, and sort of smooth, the guest souring agents not particularly egregious in their minor interference. It finishes off-dry, the malt holding up its side of the bargain, while a thin milky sourness pecks away like, like, well like anything in your life that might do that kind of annoying-ass thing, is my point.

Overall, a so-so version of this fad-friendly soured offering - the sourness is there, for sure, but it seems equally attributable to lacto pitching and fruit alike. Not particularity hard to drink, as the charter members of the list of things that piss this reviewer off (funk, yeast, and/or big booze (ok, not so much that last one)) are more or less absent here. Worth a try, just to keep up with trends, I suppose.
Mar 22, 2016
 
Rated: 3.89 by LampertLand from Canada (BC)

Mar 13, 2016
Sax In The Dark from Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
Beer rating: 82 out of 100 with 17 ratings