Sour IPA
The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- From:
- The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Sour IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.53 | pDev: 5.67%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 03, 2015
- Added:
- Feb 02, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.22/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.22/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
341ml bottle - who the hell thinks that barrel-aging an inherently (ok, 'potentially') hoppy IPA is really a good idea? Ladies and germs, exhibit A, in a cask from the Kettle Valley winery, apparently. Not sure if the date (2011) is for the beer or the barrels involved.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber hue, with some serious rising effervescence, and four fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky bone-white head, which leaves some decent sudsy chain link fence lace around the glass as things evenly subside.
It smells of gritty, grainy red wine cask woodiness, meekly earthy and acrid pine needles, musty orange and white grapefruit pith, testy and phenolic yeast, separate sour black orchard fruit, and tame weedy, leafy hops. The taste is sharp, bready pale malt, a still heady red wine barrel graininess, middling sour yeasty notes, ones kind of untethered from the whole, fading neutered citrus, unhinged pine resin astringencies, and further unloved leafy and earthy hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly understated after its initial come-hither fizzy and frothy overtures, the body medium-light in weight, and not particularly smooth, the yeast and put-upon hoppiness not in the mood to cede any kind of ground, as it were. It finishes trending dry, the yeast, denuded wood, and hops not really knowing where else to turn.
Yeah, I've said it before (hardly that many times, but freaking often enough), that fucking with the supposedly fresh and peppy nature of an American IPA, in any way, but especially in this overly expensive manner, is bordering on sacrilegious. At this turn, the barrel notes actually override almost any sort of hop bitterness, so, be careful what ya wish for, I guess.
Jun 02, 2015This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber hue, with some serious rising effervescence, and four fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky bone-white head, which leaves some decent sudsy chain link fence lace around the glass as things evenly subside.
It smells of gritty, grainy red wine cask woodiness, meekly earthy and acrid pine needles, musty orange and white grapefruit pith, testy and phenolic yeast, separate sour black orchard fruit, and tame weedy, leafy hops. The taste is sharp, bready pale malt, a still heady red wine barrel graininess, middling sour yeasty notes, ones kind of untethered from the whole, fading neutered citrus, unhinged pine resin astringencies, and further unloved leafy and earthy hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly understated after its initial come-hither fizzy and frothy overtures, the body medium-light in weight, and not particularly smooth, the yeast and put-upon hoppiness not in the mood to cede any kind of ground, as it were. It finishes trending dry, the yeast, denuded wood, and hops not really knowing where else to turn.
Yeah, I've said it before (hardly that many times, but freaking often enough), that fucking with the supposedly fresh and peppy nature of an American IPA, in any way, but especially in this overly expensive manner, is bordering on sacrilegious. At this turn, the barrel notes actually override almost any sort of hop bitterness, so, be careful what ya wish for, I guess.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.65/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.65/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Another in the series of sour beers concocted by Grizzly Paw.
Appearance - Pours a warm amber with three fingers of dense foamy white head.
Smell - sour vinous aromas, citrus fruits, hint of leafy and earthy hops, bready caramel malts, yeast.
Taste - Starts off with the sour vinous aromas then quickly goes into the hint of citrus fruits and earthy and leafy hops followed by the bready caramel malts, hint of woodiness and yeast.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes dry with slight vinous characteristics and hint of earthy and leafy hops.
Overall - For the second installment of this series, I am glad this one wasn't dominated by the wine barrel. The IPA characteristics are there but the hops need to be ramped up to blend with the barrel. Overall, an intriguing brew but with some minor adjustments in the hop department this will be a true stand out.
Feb 02, 2015Appearance - Pours a warm amber with three fingers of dense foamy white head.
Smell - sour vinous aromas, citrus fruits, hint of leafy and earthy hops, bready caramel malts, yeast.
Taste - Starts off with the sour vinous aromas then quickly goes into the hint of citrus fruits and earthy and leafy hops followed by the bready caramel malts, hint of woodiness and yeast.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes dry with slight vinous characteristics and hint of earthy and leafy hops.
Overall - For the second installment of this series, I am glad this one wasn't dominated by the wine barrel. The IPA characteristics are there but the hops need to be ramped up to blend with the barrel. Overall, an intriguing brew but with some minor adjustments in the hop department this will be a true stand out.
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