Just The Tip
Three Ranges Brewing Company
- From:
- Three Ranges Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.76 | pDev: 0.53%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 31, 2022
- Added:
- Jul 08, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.79/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a 473ml can.
Appearance - Pours a amber with two fingers of frothy bubbly white head.
Smell - earthy, leafy, and herbal hops, pine needles and spruce, caramel, bready malts, and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy, leafy, and herbal hops upfront. The pine needles and spruce are very mild. The caramel, bready malts, and earthy yeast round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes bitter from the hops with the spruce and pine faintly making their presence known.
Overall - A brew that tastes more like an American red/amber than a spruce beer. I wish the spruce was more pronounced and not as muted in the taste as it would make it a true stand out.
Jul 31, 2022Appearance - Pours a amber with two fingers of frothy bubbly white head.
Smell - earthy, leafy, and herbal hops, pine needles and spruce, caramel, bready malts, and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy, leafy, and herbal hops upfront. The pine needles and spruce are very mild. The caramel, bready malts, and earthy yeast round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes bitter from the hops with the spruce and pine faintly making their presence known.
Overall - A brew that tastes more like an American red/amber than a spruce beer. I wish the spruce was more pronounced and not as muted in the taste as it would make it a true stand out.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.74/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.74/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
355ml can - another tongue in cheek moniker for a brew, and I like it!
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and yet fizzy ecru head, which leaves some random streaky lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of bready and biscuity caramel malt, warm toffee, weak generic pine tree esters, a bit of baked apple/pear fruitiness, and very, very tame earthy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, biscuity toffee squares, ethereal resinous spruce tips, muddled domestic citrus and bruised pome fruity notes, a faint earthy yeastiness, and more understated leafy, weedy, and musty verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its low-key frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a wee airy creaminess seeping in as things warm up a tad around here (not a difficult accomplishment today, I tell you whut). It finishes off-dry, the malt starting to feel a bit lonely in its perseverance.
Overall - this one's subtitle is actually 'Spruce Tip Ale', but I removed mention of that from above, because damned if I can find any real evidence that they only dipped a single spruce tip into the boil, and that's it (think of Kramer from Seinfeld saying it). Not a bad amber ale, but not much of a spruce ale - that's just a tip.
Jul 08, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and yet fizzy ecru head, which leaves some random streaky lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of bready and biscuity caramel malt, warm toffee, weak generic pine tree esters, a bit of baked apple/pear fruitiness, and very, very tame earthy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, biscuity toffee squares, ethereal resinous spruce tips, muddled domestic citrus and bruised pome fruity notes, a faint earthy yeastiness, and more understated leafy, weedy, and musty verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its low-key frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a wee airy creaminess seeping in as things warm up a tad around here (not a difficult accomplishment today, I tell you whut). It finishes off-dry, the malt starting to feel a bit lonely in its perseverance.
Overall - this one's subtitle is actually 'Spruce Tip Ale', but I removed mention of that from above, because damned if I can find any real evidence that they only dipped a single spruce tip into the boil, and that's it (think of Kramer from Seinfeld saying it). Not a bad amber ale, but not much of a spruce ale - that's just a tip.
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