North Shore Pale Ale
Bridge Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do love receiving beer as a gift, particularly when it's something new to me! This is a lovely rendition of a west coast pale ale. Nice copper-orange colour, with a foamy white head that wants to hang around for a bit. The taste is lovely - crackery, slightly peppery malt, nicely balanced by the floral/pie/citrus hoppiness. I'm not sure I would go far out of my way to try another, but this was a lovely surprise.

Very lovely dark amber brew with a big pile of foam in the Einbecker Pils glass. Interesting malty-grainy aroma. But first sip yields dishwatery and plastic aromatics. Sudsy in the mouth but then the bitterness comes on.

Taste is caramel-coated dirt. Why is this so musty and muddy? It's malty, alright, but woody and herbal. Very bitter aftertaste along with the spoiled fruit tang. I can't imagine what the attraction is with this murk.

Awesome beer. I've been drinking this since it started, a few years ago and it's still brilliant. It's got a floral aroma and taste with a mild hop finish. It's very like Scottish IPAs like Deuchars or Trade Winds

 

Bridge Brewing 'North Shore Pale Ale' @ 5.5% , served from a 650 ml bottle that can be purchased for about $6
A-pour is gold from the bottle to clear dark gold in the glass with a medium size off-white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-hoppy , very similar to Driftwood 'New Growth'
T-crisp & clean tasting pale ale
MF-ok carbonation , possible full body
Ov-ok /good beer , decent pale ale
prost LampertLand

Appearance - Pours a copper colour with two fingers of foamy cream coloured head.

Smell - Citrus and piney hops, bready malts, hints of orange-like citrus, perhaps grapefruit, and caramel.

Taste - The taste is pretty true to what was detected in aromas: citrus/piney hops, bready caramel malts, and citrus fruit.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes dry with lingering bitterness.

Overall - A well executed pale ale that showcases the hop profile very nicely, along with a touch of sweetness from caramel malts.

 

650ml bottle, probably my first brew from North/West Van, and I just finished one of the later Douglas Coupland books - ooooweee!

This beer pours a hazy, medium copper amber hue, with two fingers of puffy, tightly foamy, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves some eroding concrete wall lace around the glass as things duly recede.

It smells of slightly astringent pine tree oils, buttered white bread, nougaty caramel, fleshy orange and red grapefruit, and more floral, leafy, and lightly perfumed hops. The taste is grainy, rather bready caramel malt, fading pine resin esters, soft and gentle orange and lemon citrus, a still relevant diacetyl, er, thing, and a persistent leafy, weedy, and faintly hay-like bitterness.

The bubbles are adequate in their supportive and mildly playful frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, the hops poking and prodding, yet never truly breaking through. It finishes well off-dry, the morphing caramel malt proving itself a beast not to be trifled with, while those heretofore sassy-ass hops take their ball(s) and go home.

A none-too shabby version of this interstitial style, the promising IPA-near hoppiness soon giving sway to a headmaster-esque malt sweetness. Nothin' wrong with that, natch, as a certain untethered bitterness stays with you for the course. Worthy of seeking out, no matter where your view of downtown Lotusland originates.