Scythe Matters
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Hefeweizen
- ABV:
- 7.2%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.99 | pDev: 3.76%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 17, 2017
- Added:
- Apr 08, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4.03/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - a self-described Imperial Hefeweizen, with some juvenile (the best kind) humour surrounding the size of one's scythe on the label blurb.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden amber colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and somewhat silken off-white head, which leaves some streaky and crowded island group lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of banana peeps (Easter being nigh, and all), bready and doughy wheaten malt, a mixed clove and white pepper spiciness, sedate earthy yeast, and some very subtle leafy, weedy, and perfumed floral noble hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, bready and pastry-forward caramel malt, a sort of equal to the task wheatiness, banana pudding, still hard to parse earthy spice notes, a resigned yeastiness, and more tame earthy, herbal, and dead floral 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and nice 'n smooth, with a pleasant creaminess pretty much there from the get-go. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt, banana essence and lingering spices dancing the dance.
Overall, this is a very engaging and enjoyable amped-up hefe, the extra couple points and change of alcohol barely noticeable, to the brewer's credit. All the points of the base style are well hit upon, so Imma gonna just go and sit in a corner and wonder why my 'scythe' doesn't matter any more. Anyhoo - get this, and drink it!
Apr 10, 2017This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden amber colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and somewhat silken off-white head, which leaves some streaky and crowded island group lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of banana peeps (Easter being nigh, and all), bready and doughy wheaten malt, a mixed clove and white pepper spiciness, sedate earthy yeast, and some very subtle leafy, weedy, and perfumed floral noble hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, bready and pastry-forward caramel malt, a sort of equal to the task wheatiness, banana pudding, still hard to parse earthy spice notes, a resigned yeastiness, and more tame earthy, herbal, and dead floral 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and nice 'n smooth, with a pleasant creaminess pretty much there from the get-go. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt, banana essence and lingering spices dancing the dance.
Overall, this is a very engaging and enjoyable amped-up hefe, the extra couple points and change of alcohol barely noticeable, to the brewer's credit. All the points of the base style are well hit upon, so Imma gonna just go and sit in a corner and wonder why my 'scythe' doesn't matter any more. Anyhoo - get this, and drink it!
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