Log Driver Juniper Rye IPA
Howe Sound Inn & Brewing Company
- From:
- Howe Sound Inn & Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Rye Beer
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.74 | pDev: 10.16%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 17, 2017
- Added:
- Jan 29, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by flyerzrule from California
3.5/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pale gold with thin head. Aroma is light cracker malts with some piney hops in the background. Taste is a bit tangy from the juniper, but balanced by the biscuit/cracker malt backbone and a mild piney hops bitterness and a tiny bit of spice from the rye. Beer is a little thin. I'd like to see a stronger malt presence, especially the rye.
May 23, 2016
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.85/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
This is a dandy IPA - if you grew up in Canada, you'll have the old NFB "Log Driver's Waltz" going through your mind repeatedly as you sip. I must concur with the previous reviews that wonder where the Juniper is hiding in this mix. It's definitely tasty, with a nice rye spice and piney hop bitterness. My hopeful but dim palate did pick up some juniper at the very end of the experience. That said, it's definitely not obvious or definitive. Another beer to chalk up to experience, but not something I will go out of my way to try again.
May 16, 2016
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.91/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.91/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
1L, swing-top bottle - Juniper, Rye, and IPA - got it!
This beer pours a rather hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some layered and wafting cirrus cloud lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly bleeds away.
It smells of zingy pine resin, underripe orange and white grapefruit citrus, a relatively strong mineral flinty character, gritty pale and rye malt, a surprising earthy yeastiness, and further leafy, herbal, and floral hop bitters. The taste is bready and slightly doughy pale malt, a lesser spicy rye thing than in the nose, some muddled pithy citrus bitterness, a steady hard water stoniness, a sense of acrid greenness that does not exactly evoke thoughts of gin, undead yeast, and more leafy, weedy, and grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its mostly supportive, but sometimes just playful frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and sort of smooth, as both the hops and the unexpected yeast take their own particular tithe here. It finishes trending dry - the robustly green-ish hops taking the day.
Overall, I'm mildly disappointed that it was the rye side of the guest ingredient equation that put itself out there, as opposed to the generally unnoticed juniper essence, which probably just got lost amongst the generally hoppy furor. No biggie, as this is still a tasty and enjoyably drinkable West Coast IPA - my only complaint being the weak-ass 11-proof wowie-sauce factor.
Feb 28, 2016This beer pours a rather hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some layered and wafting cirrus cloud lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly bleeds away.
It smells of zingy pine resin, underripe orange and white grapefruit citrus, a relatively strong mineral flinty character, gritty pale and rye malt, a surprising earthy yeastiness, and further leafy, herbal, and floral hop bitters. The taste is bready and slightly doughy pale malt, a lesser spicy rye thing than in the nose, some muddled pithy citrus bitterness, a steady hard water stoniness, a sense of acrid greenness that does not exactly evoke thoughts of gin, undead yeast, and more leafy, weedy, and grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its mostly supportive, but sometimes just playful frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and sort of smooth, as both the hops and the unexpected yeast take their own particular tithe here. It finishes trending dry - the robustly green-ish hops taking the day.
Overall, I'm mildly disappointed that it was the rye side of the guest ingredient equation that put itself out there, as opposed to the generally unnoticed juniper essence, which probably just got lost amongst the generally hoppy furor. No biggie, as this is still a tasty and enjoyably drinkable West Coast IPA - my only complaint being the weak-ass 11-proof wowie-sauce factor.
Reviewed by beerflavoredbeer from Canada (BC)
4.24/5 rDev +13.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev +13.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Oh man. Since I added this, I feel pressure to say something about it, when I've never actually written a review on this site before, and don't really speak the lingo.
*tugs on collar*
We picked up a bottle of this at the brewery and took it home. I was attracted to it because I love gin and of course juniper is a dominant note in gin.
We shared the bottle over a dinner of spinach and sundried tomato stuffed pork chops, sweet potato fries and artichokes. Busy flavours, in other words.
Can't tell you a lot about the look as I wasn't planning to write a review and I don't think I thought much beyond "that looks refreshing."
The beer surprised me because the scent hit me with lots and lots of fruit--mostly grapefruit and mango. I could not detect any juniper, to be honest!
The taste, again, fruit forward, whither juniper? But delicious! The tanginess of the rye and the moderate hoppiness balanced the fruit well.
The mouthfeel was a little thicker and punchier than I was expecting, but that was good, because it really held up against the food. Still refreshing.
Overall I really enjoyed this beer, and moreover the three other partakers also enjoyed it, which is unusual as we tend to favour different categories.
Looking forward to seeing some other reviews and see if other people taste the juniper!
Jan 29, 2016*tugs on collar*
We picked up a bottle of this at the brewery and took it home. I was attracted to it because I love gin and of course juniper is a dominant note in gin.
We shared the bottle over a dinner of spinach and sundried tomato stuffed pork chops, sweet potato fries and artichokes. Busy flavours, in other words.
Can't tell you a lot about the look as I wasn't planning to write a review and I don't think I thought much beyond "that looks refreshing."
The beer surprised me because the scent hit me with lots and lots of fruit--mostly grapefruit and mango. I could not detect any juniper, to be honest!
The taste, again, fruit forward, whither juniper? But delicious! The tanginess of the rye and the moderate hoppiness balanced the fruit well.
The mouthfeel was a little thicker and punchier than I was expecting, but that was good, because it really held up against the food. Still refreshing.
Overall I really enjoyed this beer, and moreover the three other partakers also enjoyed it, which is unusual as we tend to favour different categories.
Looking forward to seeing some other reviews and see if other people taste the juniper!
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