Deckside Summer Ale
Bowen Island Brewing Co. Ltd.
- From:
- Bowen Island Brewing Co. Ltd.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.66 | pDev: 4.37%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 13, 2018
- Added:
- May 13, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.83/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.83/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
355ml can - an 'Apricot Summer Ale', this must be replacing the Freestone Summer Ale from years past.
This beer pours a hazy, medium orange-ish amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy ecru head, which leaves some random splattered lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.
It smells of fresh apricot and peach puree, bready and doughy caramel malt, a further indistinct citrus fruitiness, and some tame musty, leafy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, dried apricots, a damp minerality, more hard to pin down citrus notes, and some plain leafy, earthy, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly staid in its complacent-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with just a touch of (hop?) bitterness maybe exacting a minor toll here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and sort of fading fruity character exhibiting the most lingering oomph.
Overall - this is a pleasant enough, and certainly full-flavoured offering, with the hops doing well to rein in the big stone fruit essences. Crisp, and easy to put back while I contemplate what to do about all those damned dandelions in my yard - aaah, my kid (and bees, apparently) loves them, so they live another day.
May 16, 2018This beer pours a hazy, medium orange-ish amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy ecru head, which leaves some random splattered lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.
It smells of fresh apricot and peach puree, bready and doughy caramel malt, a further indistinct citrus fruitiness, and some tame musty, leafy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, dried apricots, a damp minerality, more hard to pin down citrus notes, and some plain leafy, earthy, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly staid in its complacent-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with just a touch of (hop?) bitterness maybe exacting a minor toll here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and sort of fading fruity character exhibiting the most lingering oomph.
Overall - this is a pleasant enough, and certainly full-flavoured offering, with the hops doing well to rein in the big stone fruit essences. Crisp, and easy to put back while I contemplate what to do about all those damned dandelions in my yard - aaah, my kid (and bees, apparently) loves them, so they live another day.
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