Benefit Brew - Yamnuska
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.72 | pDev: 6.45%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 24, 2018
- Added:
- Feb 11, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.94/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Appearance - Pours a warm deep copper with three fingers of foamy ivory head.
Smell - bready and caramel malts, earthy,leafy, floral hops, hint of citrus peel, and earthy yeast.
Taste - Moderate bitterness from the earthy, leafy, and floral hops followed by the bready and caramel malts. Bitter citrus rind flavours come through next. The earthy yeast helps to finish the brew off.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with low to moderate carbonation. Finishes off dry with the malts and hops lingering.
Overall - A delicious bitter brew made for a very special cause. Very drinkable with the malts and hops doing a balancing act, with the hops slightly in charge to make this please both the malt forward and hop forward beer drinker.
Mar 03, 2018Smell - bready and caramel malts, earthy,leafy, floral hops, hint of citrus peel, and earthy yeast.
Taste - Moderate bitterness from the earthy, leafy, and floral hops followed by the bready and caramel malts. Bitter citrus rind flavours come through next. The earthy yeast helps to finish the brew off.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with low to moderate carbonation. Finishes off dry with the malts and hops lingering.
Overall - A delicious bitter brew made for a very special cause. Very drinkable with the malts and hops doing a balancing act, with the hops slightly in charge to make this please both the malt forward and hop forward beer drinker.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - the 2018 edition of the Alberta Benefit Brew, this year the proceeds going to the Yamnuska Wolfdog Sanctuary, located outside of Cochrane. The style is a 'West Coast ESB'.
This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves a vast array of stellar webbed lace around the glass as it slowly ebbs away.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, some prominent earthy peppercorns, faint domestic citrus rind, a mild hard water flintiness, and some leafy, weedy, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, still edgy ground black pepper spice, muddled citrus peel, a hint of wet minerality, and more zippy herbal, grassy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-baiting frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and somewhat smooth, as those spice and hop notes seem to cede no quarter here. It finishes trending dry, the same notes from the mouthfeel carrying through with their lingering fervour.
Overall - this comes across as a well-wrought old-school version of the style, with just a touch of West Coast hops in the mix. It seems you can't go wrong with animal rescue type charity endeavours, at least as far as this series is concerned. Maybe Matt just has a bunch of cats and dogs and what have you, I dunno.
Feb 16, 2018This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves a vast array of stellar webbed lace around the glass as it slowly ebbs away.
It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, some prominent earthy peppercorns, faint domestic citrus rind, a mild hard water flintiness, and some leafy, weedy, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, still edgy ground black pepper spice, muddled citrus peel, a hint of wet minerality, and more zippy herbal, grassy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-baiting frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and somewhat smooth, as those spice and hop notes seem to cede no quarter here. It finishes trending dry, the same notes from the mouthfeel carrying through with their lingering fervour.
Overall - this comes across as a well-wrought old-school version of the style, with just a touch of West Coast hops in the mix. It seems you can't go wrong with animal rescue type charity endeavours, at least as far as this series is concerned. Maybe Matt just has a bunch of cats and dogs and what have you, I dunno.
Rated by bryanangusj from Canada (AB)
3.85/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
No lacing, but it tastes great.
Feb 12, 2018
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