Ursa Major Brown Ale
The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- From:
- The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 7.2%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.78 | pDev: 7.41%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 09, 2016
- Added:
- Oct 24, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
86
Very Good
86
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Trosevear from Canada (AB)
4.49/5 rDev +18.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.49/5 rDev +18.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Day 11 of the Craft Beer Advent Calendar.
L: Dark brown with a slight head to it.
S: Chocolate, and malt with a slight hop.
T: Chocolate and coffee a slight malt taste with a little hop on the back round, kinda sweet but not overpowering.
F: Slight carbination with a full body mouth feel.
O: I love this brewery and every beer I've had from them, this was not an exception and I'm happy for that.
Dec 13, 2015L: Dark brown with a slight head to it.
S: Chocolate, and malt with a slight hop.
T: Chocolate and coffee a slight malt taste with a little hop on the back round, kinda sweet but not overpowering.
F: Slight carbination with a full body mouth feel.
O: I love this brewery and every beer I've had from them, this was not an exception and I'm happy for that.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.62/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
There is nothing disagreeable about this beer. It is a decent brown ale that looks nice in the glass and has a bit more depth than other Grizzly Paw browns I have sampled. The nice caramel malt backbone dominates, with hints of chocolate and figgy pudding emerging from time to time. A nice way to finish a snowy Alberta day.
Dec 12, 2015
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.52/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -6.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
341ml bottle, day 11 of the Craft Beer Advent Calendar - I've taken to laying that thing on its side, but man, was this one still very hard to yank out of the packaging.
This beer pours a clear, rather dark red-brick brown colour, with one skinny-ass finger of weakly puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves some diagonal lightning strike lace in places around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, cheap cocoa powder, a muddled dark fruitiness, subtle oily nuts, a twinge of salty black licorice, and a hint of estery alcohol. The taste is more grainy, bready caramel malt, a bit of browned apple and pear fruitiness, a touch of boozy cherry, some pithy holiday nuttiness, and tame earthy, leafy, and slightly perfumed floral hops.
The bubbles are fairly understated in their less than robust frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and sort of thin-seeming at times, with a suggestion of smoothness usually at the base of each glug. It finishes off-dry, but not by much - the sweetness falling out of the bottom of the malt, while that not quite tart fruitiness and lingering alcohol close on in.
Not a bad strong brown ale, but the purported richness and dominant chocolate malt flavours sorely fail to materialize as such. Average all around, and a bit of a disappointment to the grandeur of the titular star constellation, I would proffer.
Dec 11, 2015This beer pours a clear, rather dark red-brick brown colour, with one skinny-ass finger of weakly puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves some diagonal lightning strike lace in places around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, cheap cocoa powder, a muddled dark fruitiness, subtle oily nuts, a twinge of salty black licorice, and a hint of estery alcohol. The taste is more grainy, bready caramel malt, a bit of browned apple and pear fruitiness, a touch of boozy cherry, some pithy holiday nuttiness, and tame earthy, leafy, and slightly perfumed floral hops.
The bubbles are fairly understated in their less than robust frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and sort of thin-seeming at times, with a suggestion of smoothness usually at the base of each glug. It finishes off-dry, but not by much - the sweetness falling out of the bottom of the malt, while that not quite tart fruitiness and lingering alcohol close on in.
Not a bad strong brown ale, but the purported richness and dominant chocolate malt flavours sorely fail to materialize as such. Average all around, and a bit of a disappointment to the grandeur of the titular star constellation, I would proffer.
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