Devil's Gap Dark Saison
The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- From:
- The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.64 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 22, 2020
- Added:
- Feb 22, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.64/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.64/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
473ml can - a collaboration with Calgary's New Level Brewing, and named after an old mountain pass, or 'gap', between Lake Minnewanka and the Ghost Lakes. Hmmm...the second geographical Albertan 'gap' brew that I've sampled in as many days.
This beer pours a murky, dark amber-highlighted brown colour, with a veritable teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly creamy tan head, which leaves a few chunks of thickly spattered lace around the glass as it lazily sinks away.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a hint of free-range ashiness, whole black peppercorns, faint earthy yeast, subtle black stone fruit, and some ethereal leafy, weedy, and dead floral hoppiness. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and crackery cereal malt, some plum and prune dark fruitiness, sort of edgy yeast, ephemeral chewing tobacco, and more understated leafy, musty, and damp earthy hop bitters.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, but for a perception of spicy yeast not really willing to play fair at this most sensitive of junctures. It finishes off-dry, the big malt still keeping everything neatly between the towering cliffs on both sides, as such.
Overall - this comes across as a decent enough iteration of a darkened Saison, with the base characteristics not feeling trod upon. Easy to drink, just a tad warming, and thus a worthy substitute for more hot chocolate after a very nice evening out on the ice.
Feb 22, 2020This beer pours a murky, dark amber-highlighted brown colour, with a veritable teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly creamy tan head, which leaves a few chunks of thickly spattered lace around the glass as it lazily sinks away.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a hint of free-range ashiness, whole black peppercorns, faint earthy yeast, subtle black stone fruit, and some ethereal leafy, weedy, and dead floral hoppiness. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and crackery cereal malt, some plum and prune dark fruitiness, sort of edgy yeast, ephemeral chewing tobacco, and more understated leafy, musty, and damp earthy hop bitters.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, but for a perception of spicy yeast not really willing to play fair at this most sensitive of junctures. It finishes off-dry, the big malt still keeping everything neatly between the towering cliffs on both sides, as such.
Overall - this comes across as a decent enough iteration of a darkened Saison, with the base characteristics not feeling trod upon. Easy to drink, just a tad warming, and thus a worthy substitute for more hot chocolate after a very nice evening out on the ice.
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