Benefit Brew - Zoe's Animal Rescue Society
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.75 | pDev: 5.07%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 05, 2017
- Added:
- Feb 09, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle, the latest in Phillips' dual BC and Alberta provincial charity offerings. What, another 'animal rescue' brew? Sorry, my stupidly pet-free household doesn't seem to give a shit.
This beer pours a near-black, dark cola-highlighted brown colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and somewhat fizzy beige head, which leaves some random splotchy and sudsy lace around the glass as it genially subsides.
It smells of well-roasted caramel malt, further free-range char, a bit of wayward son yeastiness, some muddled black orchard fruitiness, and a testy sort of leafy, weedy, and funky 'n herbal green hop bitterness. The taste is still overly toasty caramel malt, more undeveloped domestic and tropical fruity notes, a loitering sense of yeast love unrequited, and some zingy leafy, earthy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-probing frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and sort of smooth, once that char gets through having its carnal way with things around here. It finishes trending dry, the roasted character kind of outpacing the lingering citrusy and pine forest floor essences for top billing, as such.
Overall, if you have to actually make another iteration of this abortion of sub-styles, then I guess you might as well do it right (I mean that in a positive manner, even though it doesn't seem so). To that point, this will surely appeal to a few lovers of the style, but hardly the mass market that would actually help the good cause they claim to be supporting here, amirite?
Feb 13, 2017This beer pours a near-black, dark cola-highlighted brown colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and somewhat fizzy beige head, which leaves some random splotchy and sudsy lace around the glass as it genially subsides.
It smells of well-roasted caramel malt, further free-range char, a bit of wayward son yeastiness, some muddled black orchard fruitiness, and a testy sort of leafy, weedy, and funky 'n herbal green hop bitterness. The taste is still overly toasty caramel malt, more undeveloped domestic and tropical fruity notes, a loitering sense of yeast love unrequited, and some zingy leafy, earthy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-probing frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and sort of smooth, once that char gets through having its carnal way with things around here. It finishes trending dry, the roasted character kind of outpacing the lingering citrusy and pine forest floor essences for top billing, as such.
Overall, if you have to actually make another iteration of this abortion of sub-styles, then I guess you might as well do it right (I mean that in a positive manner, even though it doesn't seem so). To that point, this will surely appeal to a few lovers of the style, but hardly the mass market that would actually help the good cause they claim to be supporting here, amirite?
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