Gardener Double IPA
Village Brewery
- From:
- Village Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8.8%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.82 | pDev: 2.88%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 24, 2018
- Added:
- Nov 05, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - the 2018 edition of Gardener, a brew made with ingredients sourced from the surrounding area, i.e. backyards and community gardens.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some shale cliff pattern lace around the glass as it slowly yet surely evaporates.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, some orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus peel, a hint of cat pee, and edgy leafy, weedy, and dank piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, a strange herbaceousness, some damp minerality, and more testy leafy, musky floral, and resinous piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, but for that weird herbal character picking away at my better senses here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and varied hop notes in a lingering pas-de-deux.
Overall - well, we're getting what appears to be some Alberta hop terroir in this offering, since they all came from a part of southeast Calgary. They create an interesting balancing effect, so much so that I'm having trouble describing it accurately. Oh, well, how about I talk about the thoroughly integrated, near 9 points of ABV? There, back on track!
Nov 06, 2018This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some shale cliff pattern lace around the glass as it slowly yet surely evaporates.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, some orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus peel, a hint of cat pee, and edgy leafy, weedy, and dank piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, a strange herbaceousness, some damp minerality, and more testy leafy, musky floral, and resinous piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, but for that weird herbal character picking away at my better senses here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and varied hop notes in a lingering pas-de-deux.
Overall - well, we're getting what appears to be some Alberta hop terroir in this offering, since they all came from a part of southeast Calgary. They create an interesting balancing effect, so much so that I'm having trouble describing it accurately. Oh, well, how about I talk about the thoroughly integrated, near 9 points of ABV? There, back on track!
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