Big Sky Uncommon Lager
Whistler Brewing Company
- From:
- Whistler Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- California Common / Steam Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.65 | pDev: 8.22%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 17, 2017
- Added:
- Oct 10, 2014
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 6
SCORE
84
Good
84
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by PorterPro125 from Canada (NB)
4.14/5 rDev +13.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.14/5 rDev +13.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Serving Type: 650 mL Bottle
A- Pours a hazy Orange-Amber with a 2 finger white head with top-notch retention. I thick layer of lacing coats the glass as you drink.
S- Bready malt, grassy hops, and a subtle peach-like fruitiness (i'm guessing from the yeast).
T- Much like the taste: Bready malt, grassy hops, and a peach/pear sweetness
M- Medium body (perhaps the heftiest body I've seen in a lager) with adequate moderate carbonation.
O- This being my first California Common, I don't really have much to base this experience on but I sure did enjoy this beer. A great example of the diversity that is possible within the "Lager" grouping.
Oct 01, 2015A- Pours a hazy Orange-Amber with a 2 finger white head with top-notch retention. I thick layer of lacing coats the glass as you drink.
S- Bready malt, grassy hops, and a subtle peach-like fruitiness (i'm guessing from the yeast).
T- Much like the taste: Bready malt, grassy hops, and a peach/pear sweetness
M- Medium body (perhaps the heftiest body I've seen in a lager) with adequate moderate carbonation.
O- This being my first California Common, I don't really have much to base this experience on but I sure did enjoy this beer. A great example of the diversity that is possible within the "Lager" grouping.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.82/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.82/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Whistler Brewing 'Big Sky Uncommon Lager' @ 5.0% served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $5.20
A-pour is gold from the bottle to a clear gold in the glass with a medium size white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-barley & malt
T-watery
MF-lots of carbonation , medium body
Ov-ok beer & common lager
prost LampertLand
Aug 06, 2015A-pour is gold from the bottle to a clear gold in the glass with a medium size white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-barley & malt
T-watery
MF-lots of carbonation , medium body
Ov-ok beer & common lager
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by HipCzech from California
3.67/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Serving: 650 mL bottle poured into a small tasting glass.
Appearance: Clear, bright, slightly amber gold. A good head office white head leaves lush lace.
Smell: Grainy malt, cereal; grassy hops, and faint yeast notes.
Taste: Biscuit malt, earthy and spicy yeast, slightly resinous hops.
Mouthfeel: Medium body with crisp carbonation.
Overall: A fuller lager with good malt and yeast character; not completely harmonious, but still quite tasty and drinkable.
Tried alongside United Front Braunbier - an altogether different style, but nice to find two such full flavored, malty lagers among BC brewers' seasonal offering.
Jul 12, 2015Appearance: Clear, bright, slightly amber gold. A good head office white head leaves lush lace.
Smell: Grainy malt, cereal; grassy hops, and faint yeast notes.
Taste: Biscuit malt, earthy and spicy yeast, slightly resinous hops.
Mouthfeel: Medium body with crisp carbonation.
Overall: A fuller lager with good malt and yeast character; not completely harmonious, but still quite tasty and drinkable.
Tried alongside United Front Braunbier - an altogether different style, but nice to find two such full flavored, malty lagers among BC brewers' seasonal offering.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.47/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.47/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
This is another very interesting beer from Whistler. It is a great looking beer - not what you would usually expect from a lager. It has a nice copper colour and pours with a substantial head that hangs around through most of the tasting. The smell was a bit off-putting for me - far too metallic for my tastes. The taste has a metallic tinge, but there are lots of nice malt , biscuit, and floral notes in the overall profile. The finish is particularly dry, with a bit of leafy hops. Methinks I might have to pick up some Anchor Steam to compare!
Jan 31, 2015
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.46/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.46/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Appearance - Pours an amber with a finger of bubbly white head.
Smell - bready and biscuity malts, earthy yeast, apple and slight pear, leafy hops.
Taste - bready and biscuity malts followed by the earthy yeast, apple and slight pear which tastes slightly metallic and hint of the leafy hops.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes crisp with the slight metallic characteristic.
Overall - Good on Whistler for attempting the California Common style. Execution wise, parts of the style were there but I can't get beyond the slight metallic taste at the end. This one needs to go back to the drawing board.
Dec 06, 2014Smell - bready and biscuity malts, earthy yeast, apple and slight pear, leafy hops.
Taste - bready and biscuity malts followed by the earthy yeast, apple and slight pear which tastes slightly metallic and hint of the leafy hops.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes crisp with the slight metallic characteristic.
Overall - Good on Whistler for attempting the California Common style. Execution wise, parts of the style were there but I can't get beyond the slight metallic taste at the end. This one needs to go back to the drawing board.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.59/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
330ml bottle, part of the current Whistler winter mixed pack. A particularly clever take on the bullshit Steam Beer/California Common naming debate - so, Mark, that's why this one is called 'uncommon', apparently.
This beer pours a clear, pale bronzed amber hue, with two skinny fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some randomly splotchy painted lace around the glass as it quickly recedes.
It smells of semi-sweet, biscuity and bready caramel malt, rather active earthy yeast, a tame apple and pear wan fruitiness, wet stones, and citrusy, leafy, and weedy hops. The taste is sharp, edgy lager yeast, grainy pale malt, a touch of bready caramel, muddled and certainly indistinct drupe fruit, a persistent flintiness, and muddled earthy, weedy, and leafy hops.
The bubbles are generally agreeable, in their slightly fizzy frothiness, the body a decent medium weight for the style, and sort of smooth, a slight yeasty clamminess arising as it warms. It finishes on a minor drying trend, the yeast still seemingly lording it over the malt's waning sweetness, and the continually mixed-up hop charges.
Not a bad attempt at this esoteric, and mostly weirdly inbred style - the yeast and plain grainy malt present and accounted for, in a manner that would make Fritz either proud or litigious, depending on his or his lawyers' mood, I suppose. Whatever, this is certainly worthy of its moniker, but once again, not something I would deem necessary of revisiting.
Nov 30, 2014This beer pours a clear, pale bronzed amber hue, with two skinny fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some randomly splotchy painted lace around the glass as it quickly recedes.
It smells of semi-sweet, biscuity and bready caramel malt, rather active earthy yeast, a tame apple and pear wan fruitiness, wet stones, and citrusy, leafy, and weedy hops. The taste is sharp, edgy lager yeast, grainy pale malt, a touch of bready caramel, muddled and certainly indistinct drupe fruit, a persistent flintiness, and muddled earthy, weedy, and leafy hops.
The bubbles are generally agreeable, in their slightly fizzy frothiness, the body a decent medium weight for the style, and sort of smooth, a slight yeasty clamminess arising as it warms. It finishes on a minor drying trend, the yeast still seemingly lording it over the malt's waning sweetness, and the continually mixed-up hop charges.
Not a bad attempt at this esoteric, and mostly weirdly inbred style - the yeast and plain grainy malt present and accounted for, in a manner that would make Fritz either proud or litigious, depending on his or his lawyers' mood, I suppose. Whatever, this is certainly worthy of its moniker, but once again, not something I would deem necessary of revisiting.
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