British IPA
Quidi Vidi Brewery
- From:
- Quidi Vidi Brewery
- Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Style:
- English IPA
- ABV:
- 5.7%
- Score:
- 84
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 9.12%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 20, 2017
- Added:
- Mar 25, 2012
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 7
SCORE
84
Good
84
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by eberesford from Canada (ON)
3.26/5 rDev -9.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
3.26/5 rDev -9.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours pale amber / orangey straw yellow with a thin but persistent head. Aroma caramelly with a hint of buttery diacetyl which even stronger in the taste with caramel and bread notes. Very light hopping for style with little or no floral or herbal hopping as expected.
Aug 21, 2017
Rated by Grogsky from Canada ()
3.35/5 rDev -7.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.35/5 rDev -7.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
If you have the chance to get it on tap or in a keg, that's the best way to have it. Great example of an IPA.
Feb 10, 2015
Reviewed by Borbly from Canada ()
4.28/5 rDev +18.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
4.28/5 rDev +18.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
Definitely had to change my rating for this beer when I got it on tap, and not while fairly drunk at a party. This beer has spectacular flavour characteristics, and has a wonderful smooth finish, and thus I felt I had to update this review
Jan 11, 2015
Reviewed by Groulxsome from Canada (ON)
4.08/5 rDev +12.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
4.08/5 rDev +12.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
Appearance: It pours out with a clear, golden colour with a little tinge of orange. The head is thin and somewhat loosely packed.
Smell: If you know what a QV beer smells like, it smells like that. If you don’t, it’s somewhat sweet malt with only a little hint of citrus hops. It’s somewhat one note and mostly grain-centred.
Taste: Some citrus on the open which then yields to the standard QV malt profile – a sweet, slightly biscuity, slightly dry crystal malt affair – followed by a conservative amount of finishing hops. It’s more copper than grapefruit on the bitter; more metallic than citrus.
Mouthfeel: Light creaminess with only a little alcohol burn. A somewhat astringent feeling from the acid of the hops. Similar to QV’s 1892 in astringency, but lighter overall.
Overall: Ignore the rest of this review. This is a historic beer, so it should be remembered as such. Newfoundland hasn’t had an IPA (aside from Keith’s, which is both not an IPA and only was first imported in around 2007) brewed by a commercial brewery (import or local) for many years. In Newfoundland terms, Quidi Vidi is like Sierra Nevada or one of the early craft beer innovators first bringing back real beer to North America. This, then, is perhaps one of the best commercial beers brewed in Newfoundland – ever. It is the best of their line of beers, though 1892 is a close second. I want to see more of this. I want Newfoundland to catch up, and fast, to the rest of North American brewing culture. This seasonal is a step, and an important one, in that right direction. As I said, it’s a historic beer, not only because it has brought the IPA style back to Newfoundland, but also because it finally – finally – shows a little interest in moving Newfoundland into the wider world of North American craft beer. I hope this throws down the gauntlet – that it makes Storm brew their long awaited IPA and makes Yellowbelly (who mimicked QV’s Mummer’s Brew brand) amp up the hops and wake up the tastebuds of this island who, in craft beer terms, is still far more than an hour and a half behind. We can do better than nostalgia-macros and someday, hopefully, the QV British IPA will be remembered as the beer that woke our little corner of North America up to the future of beer. I’m proud to be drinking this, and sad that, here in Toronto, I only have three more left.
(Edit, two months later) Note to those new to QV beers: they age very well. This beer is considerably better two months old than it was when I first got it. The malt has developed considerably. The metallic taste note has died down too.
Mar 25, 2012Smell: If you know what a QV beer smells like, it smells like that. If you don’t, it’s somewhat sweet malt with only a little hint of citrus hops. It’s somewhat one note and mostly grain-centred.
Taste: Some citrus on the open which then yields to the standard QV malt profile – a sweet, slightly biscuity, slightly dry crystal malt affair – followed by a conservative amount of finishing hops. It’s more copper than grapefruit on the bitter; more metallic than citrus.
Mouthfeel: Light creaminess with only a little alcohol burn. A somewhat astringent feeling from the acid of the hops. Similar to QV’s 1892 in astringency, but lighter overall.
Overall: Ignore the rest of this review. This is a historic beer, so it should be remembered as such. Newfoundland hasn’t had an IPA (aside from Keith’s, which is both not an IPA and only was first imported in around 2007) brewed by a commercial brewery (import or local) for many years. In Newfoundland terms, Quidi Vidi is like Sierra Nevada or one of the early craft beer innovators first bringing back real beer to North America. This, then, is perhaps one of the best commercial beers brewed in Newfoundland – ever. It is the best of their line of beers, though 1892 is a close second. I want to see more of this. I want Newfoundland to catch up, and fast, to the rest of North American brewing culture. This seasonal is a step, and an important one, in that right direction. As I said, it’s a historic beer, not only because it has brought the IPA style back to Newfoundland, but also because it finally – finally – shows a little interest in moving Newfoundland into the wider world of North American craft beer. I hope this throws down the gauntlet – that it makes Storm brew their long awaited IPA and makes Yellowbelly (who mimicked QV’s Mummer’s Brew brand) amp up the hops and wake up the tastebuds of this island who, in craft beer terms, is still far more than an hour and a half behind. We can do better than nostalgia-macros and someday, hopefully, the QV British IPA will be remembered as the beer that woke our little corner of North America up to the future of beer. I’m proud to be drinking this, and sad that, here in Toronto, I only have three more left.
(Edit, two months later) Note to those new to QV beers: they age very well. This beer is considerably better two months old than it was when I first got it. The malt has developed considerably. The metallic taste note has died down too.
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