Red Ensign
Mill Street Brew Pub
- From:
- Mill Street Brew Pub
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.49 | pDev: 2.87%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 17, 2017
- Added:
- Jun 23, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.59/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
750ml, red wax sealed swing-top bottle (a patently stupid enclosure combo) - Mill Street's Canada 150 anniversary brew, made with malt from the Prairies, BC raspberries, and Ontario hops. Named after our nation's first flag.
This beer pours a murky, dark ruddy amber colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fizzy tan head, which leaves some rocky promontory lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.
It smells of fresh raspberries, gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser edgy wheatiness, and very little else. The taste is mildly tart green raspberries, grainy and doughy pale malt, wet wheat crackers, something that reminds me of Edo Japan stir-fries but I can't isolate it, and some tame leafy, weedy, and gently perfumed floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, as the various elements keep to themselves as they coast through here. It finishes off-dry, the musty raspberries lingering on beside some stoic mixed malt.
Overall - yeah, this is one sort of weird bird. The guest fruit more or less does well to represent, but there's an 'otherness' endemic here that has me giving my head a shake. Perhaps it's the combination of the far-flung ingredients (not usually a problem in brewing), but I am indeed getting what amounts to Maki rolls dipped in raspberry vinaigrette. Interesting, but a one and done for me.
Jul 17, 2017This beer pours a murky, dark ruddy amber colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fizzy tan head, which leaves some rocky promontory lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.
It smells of fresh raspberries, gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser edgy wheatiness, and very little else. The taste is mildly tart green raspberries, grainy and doughy pale malt, wet wheat crackers, something that reminds me of Edo Japan stir-fries but I can't isolate it, and some tame leafy, weedy, and gently perfumed floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, as the various elements keep to themselves as they coast through here. It finishes off-dry, the musty raspberries lingering on beside some stoic mixed malt.
Overall - yeah, this is one sort of weird bird. The guest fruit more or less does well to represent, but there's an 'otherness' endemic here that has me giving my head a shake. Perhaps it's the combination of the far-flung ingredients (not usually a problem in brewing), but I am indeed getting what amounts to Maki rolls dipped in raspberry vinaigrette. Interesting, but a one and done for me.
Reviewed by taxandbeerguy from Canada (ON)
3.38/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.38/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
750 ml waxed and swingtop bottle served cold into a pint glass. Purchased this anniversary ale for $9.45 CDN.
Appearance - Pale strawberry / cranberry / raspberry colored ale with tremendous haze and minimal clarity. A decadent finger and a half of dense frothy off-white head is poured with above average retention time. Minimal lacing.
Smell - Plenty of raspberry, with a hint of sweetness up front follow up by minimal aromas and some very light graininess.
Taste - Raspberries for sure, but a little too sweet initially and the raspberry taste doesn't last long enough as it fades off. Maybe some wheat in the background and a touch of heat from the (reasonably) well hidden booze.
Mouthfeel - Creamy, dense, but a thinness makes this pretty drinkable. Best part of the beer. Fairly fizzy.
Overall -Easy drinking if fizzy for a 7% Raspberry Wheat Ale, but was expecting more (or maybe a different style) for such a momentous occasion in Canada's history. Won't pick up another.
Jul 01, 2017Appearance - Pale strawberry / cranberry / raspberry colored ale with tremendous haze and minimal clarity. A decadent finger and a half of dense frothy off-white head is poured with above average retention time. Minimal lacing.
Smell - Plenty of raspberry, with a hint of sweetness up front follow up by minimal aromas and some very light graininess.
Taste - Raspberries for sure, but a little too sweet initially and the raspberry taste doesn't last long enough as it fades off. Maybe some wheat in the background and a touch of heat from the (reasonably) well hidden booze.
Mouthfeel - Creamy, dense, but a thinness makes this pretty drinkable. Best part of the beer. Fairly fizzy.
Overall -Easy drinking if fizzy for a 7% Raspberry Wheat Ale, but was expecting more (or maybe a different style) for such a momentous occasion in Canada's history. Won't pick up another.
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