Sky Pilot Northwest Pale Ale
Howe Sound Inn & Brewing Company
- From:
- Howe Sound Inn & Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 81
- Avg:
- 3.44 | pDev: 14.24%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 26, 2019
- Added:
- Oct 11, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
81
Good
81
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by altstadt from Canada (BC)
2.6/5 rDev -24.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.6/5 rDev -24.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Cloudy orange-tan color. Medium flow of fine bubbles rising from the bottom. Poured a thin head that dropped back to a patchy, thin skiff across the surface. Left a small amount of lacing of fine bubbles on the side of the glass.
Mostly vegetable hop scent with a bit of barnyard. Swirling the glass kicked up a strong barnyard scent.
Medium-light bitter flavor at the start that gives way to decayed grass and strong barnyard.
Light tongue tingling. It grows into a foam with coarse bubbles.
Another Vancouver area brewery and ale that is affected by the barnyard plague. It is hard to believe that this was awarded a bronze medal in 2017.
Jul 26, 2019Mostly vegetable hop scent with a bit of barnyard. Swirling the glass kicked up a strong barnyard scent.
Medium-light bitter flavor at the start that gives way to decayed grass and strong barnyard.
Light tongue tingling. It grows into a foam with coarse bubbles.
Another Vancouver area brewery and ale that is affected by the barnyard plague. It is hard to believe that this was awarded a bronze medal in 2017.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.43/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.43/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
355ml can - a good name and label imagery for a brew from this part of the world, IMHO.
This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random patchy and streaky lace around the glass as it lazily dissipates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a bit of buttery snack crackers, some edgy domestic citrus peel, a hint of earthy yeastiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, ethereal orange and grapefruit notes, more lost-seeming, estery yeast, and some plain musty, herbal, and piney forest floor detritus hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite tame in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a subtle airy creaminess evolving as the ambient temperature increases around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and wanly lingering hops limping out the back door.
Overall - this comes off as a weakly-constructed version of the style. Sure, there's hops, but they don't mesh well with the base graininess, which causes an immediate case of the blahs, i.e. I found myself easily distracted while writing this, which is not normally the case.
Mar 02, 2018This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random patchy and streaky lace around the glass as it lazily dissipates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a bit of buttery snack crackers, some edgy domestic citrus peel, a hint of earthy yeastiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, ethereal orange and grapefruit notes, more lost-seeming, estery yeast, and some plain musty, herbal, and piney forest floor detritus hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite tame in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a subtle airy creaminess evolving as the ambient temperature increases around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and wanly lingering hops limping out the back door.
Overall - this comes off as a weakly-constructed version of the style. Sure, there's hops, but they don't mesh well with the base graininess, which causes an immediate case of the blahs, i.e. I found myself easily distracted while writing this, which is not normally the case.
Rated by COLe35 from Canada (BC)
4/5 rDev +16.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +16.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Don’t know much about beer but I know hops and this is good
Jan 23, 2018
Reviewed by Derek from Canada (BC)
3.25/5 rDev -5.5%
3.25/5 rDev -5.5%
This had a phenomenal nose (even for a pale ale) with lots of citrus and even a bit of dankness. Strangely the hop flavour came across as rather floral, and almost soapy. Body was a bit thin. Not bad, but I certainly expected more from them.
Commercial Description:
"Brewed in collaboration with the Sea to Sky Gondola opening, May 16, 2014, this refreshing, golden pale ale with an assertive hop aroma. Brewed with Canadian two row malt, specialty malts and a blend of Cascade, Centennial and Summit hops, premium Squamish water and American Ale yeast. A delicious modern classic. 5% ABV 30 IBUs"
Oct 11, 2014Commercial Description:
"Brewed in collaboration with the Sea to Sky Gondola opening, May 16, 2014, this refreshing, golden pale ale with an assertive hop aroma. Brewed with Canadian two row malt, specialty malts and a blend of Cascade, Centennial and Summit hops, premium Squamish water and American Ale yeast. A delicious modern classic. 5% ABV 30 IBUs"
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