Tidal Wave Strong Lager
Big Surf Beer Co.
- From:
- Big Surf Beer Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Malt Liquor
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3 | pDev: 12.33%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 28, 2018
- Added:
- May 23, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by idmb from Canada (BC)
3.31/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 2 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
3.31/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 2 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
This is the lightest "strong" beer I've ever had.
Aug 28, 2018
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.48/5 rDev -17.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.25
2.48/5 rDev -17.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.25
355ml can - it's been a while since we've seen anything new from this contract line of brews - and now they throw us this. What, no ISA? They are from British Columbia, right?!!
This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with four fat fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of 'viewed from a distance' storm cloud lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of musty corn husks, sweet rice porridge, wet cardboard, melted plastic, and dead leafy and astringently herbal, um 'hops'. The taste is bready, doughy corn pudding, the same phenolic packaging material esters from the nose, hard water, and more underwhelming, and only noticeable via their typical bitterness, earthy, dank hops.
The bubbles are fairly prominent in their cheeky frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and generally smooth, without much in the way of the expected clamminess, the corn having at least one salient positive attribute, it would seem. It finishes off-kilter sweet and plastic-like, like you consumed the straw and cup that contained your American-made soda.
Well, for a malt liquor (ok, 'Canadian Strong Lager'), this does well enough to hide the generous uptick in ABV, but in the process, so many corners appear to have been cut here that my memory of this might just up and roll away. Anyways, not a pleasant tipple, the extra booze hardly worth it, and the ocean-front marketing gimmick getting staler as time passes.
May 24, 2015This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with four fat fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of 'viewed from a distance' storm cloud lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of musty corn husks, sweet rice porridge, wet cardboard, melted plastic, and dead leafy and astringently herbal, um 'hops'. The taste is bready, doughy corn pudding, the same phenolic packaging material esters from the nose, hard water, and more underwhelming, and only noticeable via their typical bitterness, earthy, dank hops.
The bubbles are fairly prominent in their cheeky frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and generally smooth, without much in the way of the expected clamminess, the corn having at least one salient positive attribute, it would seem. It finishes off-kilter sweet and plastic-like, like you consumed the straw and cup that contained your American-made soda.
Well, for a malt liquor (ok, 'Canadian Strong Lager'), this does well enough to hide the generous uptick in ABV, but in the process, so many corners appear to have been cut here that my memory of this might just up and roll away. Anyways, not a pleasant tipple, the extra booze hardly worth it, and the ocean-front marketing gimmick getting staler as time passes.
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