Iron Shirt
Beau's All Natural Brewing Company
- From:
- Beau's All Natural Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.64 | pDev: 11.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 15, 2017
- Added:
- Feb 26, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.54/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
600ml bottle, with no explanation as to the name association here. An 'oak-aged Vidal pale ale', which was made with organic (and presumably Ontario-sourced) Vidal grapes, and a collaboration with Brasserie et Distillerie Oshlag, who provided the hopped vodka oak spirals.
This beer pours a somewhat hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and silken off-white head, which leaves some random splotchy lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, sugary white wine grapes, weak woody and vanilla oak notes, sauced-up generic citrus flesh, and some burgeoning leafy, herbal, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, watery ice wine, still warm-seeming orange and lemon, more underwhelming 'oaky' character, and a consistent leafy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and sort of smooth, as an uncertain astringency kind of pulls away at perfection here. It finishes off-dry, the boozy white grapiness lingering amongst the fallen malt, and muddled hoppy bitterness.
Overall, this one comes across as a bit of a hot mess, what with the vodka-soaked hop bitterness representing more than one might prefer, even if the Vidal grapes go a long way in trying to ameliorate that condition. At any rate, nice to try, but I don't think I'd want another.
Apr 07, 2017This beer pours a somewhat hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and silken off-white head, which leaves some random splotchy lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, sugary white wine grapes, weak woody and vanilla oak notes, sauced-up generic citrus flesh, and some burgeoning leafy, herbal, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, watery ice wine, still warm-seeming orange and lemon, more underwhelming 'oaky' character, and a consistent leafy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and sort of smooth, as an uncertain astringency kind of pulls away at perfection here. It finishes off-dry, the boozy white grapiness lingering amongst the fallen malt, and muddled hoppy bitterness.
Overall, this one comes across as a bit of a hot mess, what with the vodka-soaked hop bitterness representing more than one might prefer, even if the Vidal grapes go a long way in trying to ameliorate that condition. At any rate, nice to try, but I don't think I'd want another.
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
2.98/5 rDev -18.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
2.98/5 rDev -18.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
On tap at at Joe Bean Coffee Roasters in Rochester, NY.
This one pours a light orange-ish amber color, with a small head, clear body, and very little lacing.
This smells like heavy pine, astringent wood, grapes, and bready malt.
This beer is quite confusing to me. I thought that aging it on oak that had been soaked in hopped vodka would be kind of weird, and I was right- this has a weird boozy and medicinal astringency that I can't really recommend. The grape character is nice, but not incredibly forward in the flavor profile. I'm not sure I could immediately identify this as the style it's supposed to be, as there's not a ton of hoppiness, just bitterness from the oak.
This is light bodied, with a lingering astringency that I just can't love. The carbonation level is normal for the style.
This is just weird for the sake of being weird, in my opinion. I can't highly recommend this.
Apr 06, 2017This one pours a light orange-ish amber color, with a small head, clear body, and very little lacing.
This smells like heavy pine, astringent wood, grapes, and bready malt.
This beer is quite confusing to me. I thought that aging it on oak that had been soaked in hopped vodka would be kind of weird, and I was right- this has a weird boozy and medicinal astringency that I can't really recommend. The grape character is nice, but not incredibly forward in the flavor profile. I'm not sure I could immediately identify this as the style it's supposed to be, as there's not a ton of hoppiness, just bitterness from the oak.
This is light bodied, with a lingering astringency that I just can't love. The carbonation level is normal for the style.
This is just weird for the sake of being weird, in my opinion. I can't highly recommend this.
Reviewed by Sammy from Canada (ON)
3.34/5 rDev -8.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.34/5 rDev -8.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
lcbo summerhill tap takeover. but odd hop aroma. bubble gum and astringent. Pretty fair for a hoppy beer. I guess new names sell by themselves. No body.
Mar 05, 2017
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