Wilde Mild Steam Beer
The Dandy Brewing Company
- From:
- The Dandy Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- California Common / Steam Beer
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.53 | pDev: 3.4%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 01, 2015
- Added:
- Jan 03, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BigBry from Canada (AB)
3.5/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
650 ml bottle, a surprise from my wife who purchased it directly from the brewery.
This beer pours a clear dark amber color. Way darker than I was expecting - guess I was expecting an Anchor Steam. Frothy head, bubbly lace.
It smells of roasted malt, grainy, a bit yeasty, earthy hops.
The taste starts with caramel malt, bread and yeast, some mild fruit sweetness, and then finishes with leafy, earthy hops.
The carbonation is low, not fizzy or as bubbly as the head might indicate. Light to medium body and mouth feel.
I'm looking forward to more good things from a new, local micro.
Nov 01, 2015This beer pours a clear dark amber color. Way darker than I was expecting - guess I was expecting an Anchor Steam. Frothy head, bubbly lace.
It smells of roasted malt, grainy, a bit yeasty, earthy hops.
The taste starts with caramel malt, bread and yeast, some mild fruit sweetness, and then finishes with leafy, earthy hops.
The carbonation is low, not fizzy or as bubbly as the head might indicate. Light to medium body and mouth feel.
I'm looking forward to more good things from a new, local micro.
Reviewed by CalgaryFMC from Canada (AB)
3.76/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.76/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Bomber poured into a tulip. Must be the world's darkest steam beer, a rich mahogany brown with little in the way of appreciable head, a low-key beige froth ringing the glass. Looks the part of a dark mild or brown ale.
Aroma is malt-forward, rather bready and toasted, prominent caramel, a subtle dark fruitiness. Maybe a whiff of cola-like brown spice. Subdued and mellow but pleasant.
Palate reflects the nose but the fruity notes are more pronounced. Lightly toasted brown bread and toffee, plums and dates, a nip of cream, stale hazelnuts, another nip of molasses, gentle earthy English hops. Dare I say something slightly citrus-like. Thin airy body, light carbonation (which serves to further skew this towards the English side of this brew's parentage). Finishes sweet, with some further apple and berry-like esters providing added interest.
Another unique offering from Dandy. I appreciate the plum flavor and the well-executed mouthfeel. The steam beer characters are going to have trouble asserting themselves against an English malt backdrop but the attempt was nevertheless enjoyable and noteworthy.
Jan 21, 2015Aroma is malt-forward, rather bready and toasted, prominent caramel, a subtle dark fruitiness. Maybe a whiff of cola-like brown spice. Subdued and mellow but pleasant.
Palate reflects the nose but the fruity notes are more pronounced. Lightly toasted brown bread and toffee, plums and dates, a nip of cream, stale hazelnuts, another nip of molasses, gentle earthy English hops. Dare I say something slightly citrus-like. Thin airy body, light carbonation (which serves to further skew this towards the English side of this brew's parentage). Finishes sweet, with some further apple and berry-like esters providing added interest.
Another unique offering from Dandy. I appreciate the plum flavor and the well-executed mouthfeel. The steam beer characters are going to have trouble asserting themselves against an English malt backdrop but the attempt was nevertheless enjoyable and noteworthy.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.39/5 rDev -4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.39/5 rDev -4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
650ml bottle, a surprise to see now available at Sherbrooke Liquor, way the hell up the QE II in Edmonton. If there ever was a literary persona that fit the name of this brewery well, it would have to be Oscar Wilde.
This beer pours a clear, rather dark red cola amber hue, with one skinny finger of generally bubbly beige head, which leaves a few sparse flecks of ocean plume lace around the glass as it quickly hies it outta there.
It smells of bready, lightly roasted grainy pale malt, a touch of musty caramel, stale bar-top nuts, indistinct dark orchard fruit notes, a touch of earthy yeast, and a faint hard water flinty astringency. The taste is lightly toasted bready caramel malt, innocuous yeast, buttered biscuits, a bland plum, prune, and date fruitiness, wan earthy nuts, and a faint weedy, leafy noble hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite understated in its barely tenable frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and mostly smooth, a slight yeast incursion hardly worth worrying about. It finishes off-dry, the ethereally toasted caramel malt doing well to linger, amongst the yeasty remains of the day, and a faint, but persistent blended fruitiness.
While I'm all about connectivity in the medium of marketing messages, the appealing label wankery here does not override the base conceit - take two esoteric styles (by the by, among the least favourite of this scribe, which of course is neither here nor there), and mash them together. Are we to expect something like a 'Golden State Mild' to be a thing sometime soon? Anyways, this tastes a lot like your typical Anchor Steam wannabe, which is not a good thing - too yeasty, too plain, and too undeserving of further consideration.
Jan 20, 2015This beer pours a clear, rather dark red cola amber hue, with one skinny finger of generally bubbly beige head, which leaves a few sparse flecks of ocean plume lace around the glass as it quickly hies it outta there.
It smells of bready, lightly roasted grainy pale malt, a touch of musty caramel, stale bar-top nuts, indistinct dark orchard fruit notes, a touch of earthy yeast, and a faint hard water flinty astringency. The taste is lightly toasted bready caramel malt, innocuous yeast, buttered biscuits, a bland plum, prune, and date fruitiness, wan earthy nuts, and a faint weedy, leafy noble hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite understated in its barely tenable frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and mostly smooth, a slight yeast incursion hardly worth worrying about. It finishes off-dry, the ethereally toasted caramel malt doing well to linger, amongst the yeasty remains of the day, and a faint, but persistent blended fruitiness.
While I'm all about connectivity in the medium of marketing messages, the appealing label wankery here does not override the base conceit - take two esoteric styles (by the by, among the least favourite of this scribe, which of course is neither here nor there), and mash them together. Are we to expect something like a 'Golden State Mild' to be a thing sometime soon? Anyways, this tastes a lot like your typical Anchor Steam wannabe, which is not a good thing - too yeasty, too plain, and too undeserving of further consideration.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.48/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Another new brew from the Dandy.
Appearance - Pours a dark copper with a finger of bubbly tan head.
Smell - toasted caramel malt, hint of earthy hops, hint of fruity aromas, hint of nuttiness, hint of yeast
Taste - toasted caramel malts, hint of earthy hops, hint of fruitiness (plum), hint of nuttiness and yeast.
Mouthfeel - Light to medium bodied with light carbonation. Finishes with a pleasant sweetness from the toasted caramel malts and hint of plum.
Overall - An interesting venture for blending an English brown with the California common/steam beer. The toasted malt profile was good, however, all the other ingredients could of been more pronounced to make it more true to a "hybrid" style.
Jan 03, 2015Appearance - Pours a dark copper with a finger of bubbly tan head.
Smell - toasted caramel malt, hint of earthy hops, hint of fruity aromas, hint of nuttiness, hint of yeast
Taste - toasted caramel malts, hint of earthy hops, hint of fruitiness (plum), hint of nuttiness and yeast.
Mouthfeel - Light to medium bodied with light carbonation. Finishes with a pleasant sweetness from the toasted caramel malts and hint of plum.
Overall - An interesting venture for blending an English brown with the California common/steam beer. The toasted malt profile was good, however, all the other ingredients could of been more pronounced to make it more true to a "hybrid" style.
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