Old Stumpy Pine IPA
Fernie Brewing Co.
- From:
- Fernie Brewing Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.7%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.71 | pDev: 4.85%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 29, 2017
- Added:
- Aug 06, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.55/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Appearance - Pours a clear gold with three fingers of frothy white head.
Smell - piney, leafy, and earthy hops, pine resin, caramel, bready malts, and earthy yeast.
Taste - Piney hops upfront followed by a hint of pine resin. Almost reminds me of the aroma of pine needles falling in the forest. The leafy and earthy hops come through next. The caramel, bready malts and earthy yeast follow suit.
Mouthfeel - Light to moderate bodied with light carbonation. Feels a tad thin for the style. The hops linger in the aftertaste.
Overall - An IPA that started off with a bang with the aromas but the taste didn't follow suit. I expected more from the piney hops and the mouthfeel could use some tweaking. I know what the folks at Fernie were trying to aim for but it just wasn't all there.
Oct 29, 2017Smell - piney, leafy, and earthy hops, pine resin, caramel, bready malts, and earthy yeast.
Taste - Piney hops upfront followed by a hint of pine resin. Almost reminds me of the aroma of pine needles falling in the forest. The leafy and earthy hops come through next. The caramel, bready malts and earthy yeast follow suit.
Mouthfeel - Light to moderate bodied with light carbonation. Feels a tad thin for the style. The hops linger in the aftertaste.
Overall - An IPA that started off with a bang with the aromas but the taste didn't follow suit. I expected more from the piney hops and the mouthfeel could use some tweaking. I know what the folks at Fernie were trying to aim for but it just wasn't all there.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.66/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.66/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle, part of their rotating IPA series - this one was made with Chinook, Simcoe and Idaho 7 hops, in order to produce a heap of pine tree essences. Old Stumpy is apparently a mountain biking/hiking trail near Fernie.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent dissipating fog bank profile lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of musty pine resin, gritty and grainy pale malt, generic domestic citrus rind, and further leafy, weedy, and dead floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, mixed pine forest droppings (from the trees, not the woodland creatures), a hint of white peppercorn spice, muddled citrus peel, and more earthy, musty, and herbal verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of piney acridity taking things down a notch or two here. It finishes off-dry, the malt limping off into the sunset, while the admittedly, um, present pine esters amble on in an equally awkward manner.
Overall, this isn't a bad IPA, per se, but the reliance on trying to extract as much pine character out of the hops seems to kind of doom the other attendant style flavours. Easy enough to drink, I suppose, but kind of weird, and not in a 'Keep Fernie Weird' sort of way.
Aug 11, 2017This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent dissipating fog bank profile lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of musty pine resin, gritty and grainy pale malt, generic domestic citrus rind, and further leafy, weedy, and dead floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, mixed pine forest droppings (from the trees, not the woodland creatures), a hint of white peppercorn spice, muddled citrus peel, and more earthy, musty, and herbal verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of piney acridity taking things down a notch or two here. It finishes off-dry, the malt limping off into the sunset, while the admittedly, um, present pine esters amble on in an equally awkward manner.
Overall, this isn't a bad IPA, per se, but the reliance on trying to extract as much pine character out of the hops seems to kind of doom the other attendant style flavours. Easy enough to drink, I suppose, but kind of weird, and not in a 'Keep Fernie Weird' sort of way.
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