Northern Special IPA
Wood Buffalo Brewing Co.
- From:
- Wood Buffalo Brewing Co.
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.65 | pDev: 1.92%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 29, 2016
- Added:
- Jan 15, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.59/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.59/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
16oz glass at the Underground in downtown Edmonton. No indication as to what makes this 'special', although the 'northern' part is quite evident.
This beer appears a slightly hazy, medium bronzed amber colour, with one thick finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent skewed webbed lace around the glass as things quickly subside.
It smells of white grapefruit and blood orange pith, grainy, crackery caramel malt, a small hard water flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, piney, and perfumed hoppiness. The taste is nicely malty up front - caramel, sugary bread, and toffee pudding - before a somewhat sedate mixed citrus and green (pine, herbs, and wet grass) hop bitterness comes a' knocking, alongside some weak wet stone path notes.
The bubbles are pretty low-key in their plain and innocuous frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of booze ingress. It finishes off-dry, the lingering malt parrying some fading hop bitters.
Overall, not a bad West Coast-style IPA, the citrus and pine duly brought, however, not in enough quantity to make me jump up and proclaim this as a real competitor in the burgeoning Alberta craft brewing scene. Good for Fort Mac, though, I would imagine.
Jan 15, 2016This beer appears a slightly hazy, medium bronzed amber colour, with one thick finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent skewed webbed lace around the glass as things quickly subside.
It smells of white grapefruit and blood orange pith, grainy, crackery caramel malt, a small hard water flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, piney, and perfumed hoppiness. The taste is nicely malty up front - caramel, sugary bread, and toffee pudding - before a somewhat sedate mixed citrus and green (pine, herbs, and wet grass) hop bitterness comes a' knocking, alongside some weak wet stone path notes.
The bubbles are pretty low-key in their plain and innocuous frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of booze ingress. It finishes off-dry, the lingering malt parrying some fading hop bitters.
Overall, not a bad West Coast-style IPA, the citrus and pine duly brought, however, not in enough quantity to make me jump up and proclaim this as a real competitor in the burgeoning Alberta craft brewing scene. Good for Fort Mac, though, I would imagine.
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