The Reaper V.4
Bellwoods Brewery

 

At Erie Street Gastropub on Erie Street East in nearby downtown Windsor. My ninth beer from the Toronto, Ontario brewery, and fifth for 2025. Exemplary! =)

 

Pours a beautiful orange with a generous head.
The nose is very nice, with mango, apricot, and papaya, along with some funk.
However, this scent does not completely translate to the taste, which seems a bit off, though it probably isn't. A bit funky, a bit bitter, a bit of wood, but not in a great combination. The oilyness also distracts.
Drinkable, but not great.

 

Can someone upload a picture of this beer for me? I can never get it to work for some reason.

Anyways.... Volume 4. Pours yellow cream color with a hint of orange. Pours a little bit of a head foam that doesn't last too long. Keeps a fair amount of lacing but not much. Smell is of citrous but a little bit light with a hoppy background.
Taste is of citrous and light hops. Slight bitterness and pineapple. It's pretty good. Exactly what you would expect and want from an IPA beer like this.
You don't taste any alcohol at all. Bellwood's brewery is always masters at hiding the alcohol taste. Overall, it's another hit from this brewery. They don't miss often. I'd buy again. Bought from the website and shipping Ontario. Catch you guys next time.

Review from notes. On tap at the Brain. Bellwoods collab with Messoreum Bracitorium and made with Citrus, Galaxy and Riwaka hops. 8.1% ABV.

Appearance - Super hazy, yellow orange color and a finger of frothy white head on top.

Smell - Lots of peach up front with some pineapple spliced in. A fruity IPA.

Taste - Juicy citrus with peach leading the way and some pineapple as with the nose. Quite sweet with low bitterness with wheat malt backbone. ABV well disguised.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied, smooth and dangerously crushable with lower than average carbonation.

Overall - One of the better and eminently most drinkable DIPA's from Bellwoods.

Big malted, and somewhat tasty DIPA. Carbonation still active at five weeks, OK but not preferred. Good looks as malt presses hazy orange against the glass.