Saazquatch
Olds College Teaching Brewery

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From:
Olds College Teaching Brewery
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
Bohemian / Czech Pilsner
ABV:
5.8%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
3.63 | pDev: 13.22%
Reviews:
2
Ratings:
4
Status:
Active
Rated:
Feb 09, 2020
Added:
Jun 22, 2014
Wants:
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Gots:
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Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)

3.96/5  rDev +9.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Appearance - Pours a deep gold with four fingers of frothy white head that leaves some pleasant looking lace on the glass.

Smell - spicy and floral hops, lemon, bready malts, and earthy yeast.

Taste - bitter spicy and floral hops upfront. The lemon and bready malts come through next. The brew is finished off by the earthy yeast.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. FInishes crisp with the hops and malts lingering.

Overall - A crisp and flavourful Bohemian pilsner from the kids at Olds College. This one is very approachable and crushable.
Feb 09, 2020
 
Rated: 2.81 by Beervana from Canada (BC)

Feb 26, 2016
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.99/5  rDev +9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store. Cool punny Western Canadian name for a beer of this particular style, eh? Oh, probably way fresher than its current old-world competitors' offerings available around here.

This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, broadly foamy, and rather bubbly off-white head, which leaves some morbid craggy lace around the glass as it duly sinks out of sight.

It smells of grainy, crackery, and slightly cerealized (it's a word!) pale malt, subtle underripe apple and pear fruity notes, and nicely prominent leafy, grassy, and floral hop bitters. The taste is bready, crackery, and grainy pale malt, a hint of muddled table top pepper mill spice, a touch of zingy domestic citrus zest, weak flinty & stoney notes, and more leafy, weedy, and grassy hoppiness.

The carbonation is good and challenging in its testy but otherwise welcoming frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess hitching a ride from the get-go. It finishes fairly dry, the implied peppery spice aiding and abetting those saucy and still rather welcome old-world Saaz hoppy notes.

I gotta say, once again, these 'kids' (and their proctors, or whatever they're now called) sure do know how to nail down a style! I'm reminded in part of my misspent youth in Prague lo these many years ago, and this offering could easily take its place among those (50 cent, at the time) half-litre offerings anywhere where a traveling Canadian who at least tried to order in Czech, would get a smile and a hearty serving - as it damned well should be!
Feb 15, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by schnarr84 from Canada (AB)

Jun 22, 2014
Saazquatch from Olds College Teaching Brewery
Beer rating: 3.63 out of 5 with 4 ratings