SAIT Centenni-ale
Tool Shed Brewing
- From:
- Tool Shed Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.78 | pDev: 1.59%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 04, 2017
- Added:
- Oct 29, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.84/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.84/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
355ml can - a brew to commemorate Calgary's SAIT, a technical/vocational school celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and made, fittingly, with Centennial hops.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly ecru head, which leaves a bit of random coral reef form lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser caramel sweetness, muddled domestic citrus rind, a bit of more exotic tropical fruitiness, some subtle hard water minerality, and a plain leafy, earthy, and floral green hoppiness. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, some minor biscuity caramel notes, mixed and matched citrus and tropical fruit (pineapple and kiwi, mostly), and more decent leafy, weedy, and piney hop bitters.
The bubbles are quite active in their palate probing and tingly frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with maybe just a touch of hop astringency assuming the role of the pea to the proverbial princess here. It finishes off-dry, the muttish malt doing well to prop things up here, while the citrusy, verdant, and tropical hops hang about, looking for a place to happen.
Overall, this is one tasty ISA (they're not calling it as such, but it really is one, if that term is still sticking around), the lighter ABV somehow not affecting the sturdy malt backbone. Add in some deftly blended hop offsets, and you have a brew that should win over more than a few hearts and minds on campus this fall, one would hope.
Oct 30, 2016This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly ecru head, which leaves a bit of random coral reef form lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser caramel sweetness, muddled domestic citrus rind, a bit of more exotic tropical fruitiness, some subtle hard water minerality, and a plain leafy, earthy, and floral green hoppiness. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, some minor biscuity caramel notes, mixed and matched citrus and tropical fruit (pineapple and kiwi, mostly), and more decent leafy, weedy, and piney hop bitters.
The bubbles are quite active in their palate probing and tingly frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with maybe just a touch of hop astringency assuming the role of the pea to the proverbial princess here. It finishes off-dry, the muttish malt doing well to prop things up here, while the citrusy, verdant, and tropical hops hang about, looking for a place to happen.
Overall, this is one tasty ISA (they're not calling it as such, but it really is one, if that term is still sticking around), the lighter ABV somehow not affecting the sturdy malt backbone. Add in some deftly blended hop offsets, and you have a brew that should win over more than a few hearts and minds on campus this fall, one would hope.
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