True North Light IPA
Magnotta Brewery
- From:
- Magnotta Brewery
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.59 | pDev: 5.85%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 07, 2025
- Added:
- May 21, 2023
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Light in body. Big in taste! And, crafted for IPA lovers who enjoy rich, tasty brews. Bursting with crisp and zesty tropical flavours, it's super crushable and incredibly refreshing, too. 27 IBU
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by talisen-crw from Canada (ON)
3.75/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
At my lady Pamela's house; canned and chilled, 473mL in a pint glass. From my favourite but now closed The Beer Store on Goyeau St. in nearby downtown Windsor. No date stamp or lot number. My third beer from the Vaughan, Ontario brewery, and second for 2025. With Sundae the cat...
Oct 07, 2025
Rated by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.75/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Nov 21 2023
Nov 21, 2023
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.42/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.42/5 rDev -4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
473 mL can from the LCBO; dated Jun 21 2023 and served barely chilled.
Pours foggy and translucent, its pale straw yellow-coloured body topped with three fingers of foamy, billowing white head; looks a little overcarbonated, but we'll see. It falls away within five minutes, steadily reduced to a wide collar of soapy suds; a sizable swath of thick lacing is also deposited. It smells of lemon and lime zest, with hints of pineapple, pear juice and grainy malts.
It's fruity, but I'm talking pear and sweet apple flavours for the most part, supported by notes of wheat and grain husk. Hints of pineapple and lemony citrus crop up on the back end, along with a lightly floral hop bitterness; these notes recede into a mildly fruity aftertaste that quickly fades to dry. Light in body, with a thin, fizzy mouthfeel for the first few sips, transitioning to thin and watery as the carbonation exhausts itself. At least it's refreshing and inoffensive.
Final Grade: 3.42, a passable B-. True North Light IPA is palatable enough to avoid my outright condemnation, but it's honestly not much of an IPA, session or otherwise. The predominance of orchard fruit flavours is an odd choice, while the hints of citrus and tropical fruits that occasionally sneak through are mostly just a tease. Session IPAs are sometimes (derisively) compared to 'hop tea' - well, this light IPA is more like hop tea if it were brewed with a used tea bag. That is to say, it's not at all satisfying, but you could probably do worse.
Nov 01, 2023Pours foggy and translucent, its pale straw yellow-coloured body topped with three fingers of foamy, billowing white head; looks a little overcarbonated, but we'll see. It falls away within five minutes, steadily reduced to a wide collar of soapy suds; a sizable swath of thick lacing is also deposited. It smells of lemon and lime zest, with hints of pineapple, pear juice and grainy malts.
It's fruity, but I'm talking pear and sweet apple flavours for the most part, supported by notes of wheat and grain husk. Hints of pineapple and lemony citrus crop up on the back end, along with a lightly floral hop bitterness; these notes recede into a mildly fruity aftertaste that quickly fades to dry. Light in body, with a thin, fizzy mouthfeel for the first few sips, transitioning to thin and watery as the carbonation exhausts itself. At least it's refreshing and inoffensive.
Final Grade: 3.42, a passable B-. True North Light IPA is palatable enough to avoid my outright condemnation, but it's honestly not much of an IPA, session or otherwise. The predominance of orchard fruit flavours is an odd choice, while the hints of citrus and tropical fruits that occasionally sneak through are mostly just a tease. Session IPAs are sometimes (derisively) compared to 'hop tea' - well, this light IPA is more like hop tea if it were brewed with a used tea bag. That is to say, it's not at all satisfying, but you could probably do worse.
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