Dark And Stormy Ale
Whistler Brewing Company
- From:
- Whistler Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.64 | pDev: 4.67%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 01, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 15, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
A Dark and Stormy night is often a parodied phrase, but in Whistler it can only mean two things; …the snow is coming and enjoying beers by the fire. This unique ale brewed with ginger is the perfect excuse to bundle up and watch the storm roll by.
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.65/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.65/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - why do I always want to say the phrase 'dark and stormy' with an Australian accent? Silly brain.
This beer pours a clear, very dark orange-tinted brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some frozen waterfall lace around the glass as it slowly sinks away.
It smells of earthy ginger root, lightly roasted bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet chocolate, cola syrup, and some tame leafy, grassy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a bit of free-agent ashiness, rather ethereal fresh ginger notes, more generic cola sweetness, faint cocoa powder, and even more timid leafy, weedy, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite understated in its plebeian frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight (and weirdly watery), with a decent smoothness once the ginger quickly evaporates. It finishes off-dry, the caramel cola character plodding along, looking for its long lost cohorts.
Overall, this one has an enticing aroma, but a flavour that cannot match - it's ok, I guess, and easy enough to put back, and obviously not too spicy from the guest ginger. Not to mention the everyday standard 5% ABV - if there's a fireside on a dark and stormy night, you can bet yer bupkis that I'll be wanting a bit more strength in my brew.
Oct 11, 2016This beer pours a clear, very dark orange-tinted brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some frozen waterfall lace around the glass as it slowly sinks away.
It smells of earthy ginger root, lightly roasted bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet chocolate, cola syrup, and some tame leafy, grassy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a bit of free-agent ashiness, rather ethereal fresh ginger notes, more generic cola sweetness, faint cocoa powder, and even more timid leafy, weedy, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite understated in its plebeian frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight (and weirdly watery), with a decent smoothness once the ginger quickly evaporates. It finishes off-dry, the caramel cola character plodding along, looking for its long lost cohorts.
Overall, this one has an enticing aroma, but a flavour that cannot match - it's ok, I guess, and easy enough to put back, and obviously not too spicy from the guest ginger. Not to mention the everyday standard 5% ABV - if there's a fireside on a dark and stormy night, you can bet yer bupkis that I'll be wanting a bit more strength in my brew.
Reviewed by Mlkluther from Canada (AB)
3.21/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.21/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
The nose is great - lots of ginger and spice. The taste is very ginger forward but it dies almost immediately. In the end the beer is reminiscent of water with some ginger flavour.
Mar 20, 2016
Rated by souvenirs from Canada (BC)
3.77/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Very gingery.
Dec 18, 2015
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.8/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.8/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Whistler Brewing 'Dark & Stormy' Ale brewed with Ginger @ 5.5% , served from a 650 ml bottled purchased for $6.25
A-pour is cola brown from the bottle to a mahoghany in the glass with a small fine beige head leaving a fine spotty lace along the pint
S-ginger
T-sweet start with a lot of ginger in the middle and swallow
MF-ok /decent carbonation , medium body , ginger lingers on the palate
Ov-too much ginger (needs more mary-ann)
prost LampertLand
Nov 22, 2015A-pour is cola brown from the bottle to a mahoghany in the glass with a small fine beige head leaving a fine spotty lace along the pint
S-ginger
T-sweet start with a lot of ginger in the middle and swallow
MF-ok /decent carbonation , medium body , ginger lingers on the palate
Ov-too much ginger (needs more mary-ann)
prost LampertLand
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