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Category 12 Brewing
- From:
- Category 12 Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.13 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 26, 2018
- Added:
- Apr 22, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.13/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
3.13/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
650ml bottle - 'Belgian-inspired brewing techniques', so the yeast, then?
This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some random hoar frost pattern lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.
It smells of grainy and biscuity caramel malt, some mixed dark orchard fruitiness, a bit of bar-top nuts, some estery yeast, and very faint earthy, musty, and floral green hops. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a fading caramel sweetness, still hard to parse black stone fruit, an ethereal Low Countries yeastiness, and more weak leafy, earthy, and herbal hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a touch of that nutty yeast character that has had me at sea since we first met. It finishes trending dry, the malt and weird yeasty notes not getting any better with age.
Overall - yeah, they certainly swung and missed bigly with this one. There is nothing synchronous whatsoever going on here, and if you didn't tell me that it was a red/amber ale, I wouldn't have been able to discern it for myself. Not particularly pleasant to put back, I'm afraid to say.
Apr 26, 2018This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some random hoar frost pattern lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.
It smells of grainy and biscuity caramel malt, some mixed dark orchard fruitiness, a bit of bar-top nuts, some estery yeast, and very faint earthy, musty, and floral green hops. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a fading caramel sweetness, still hard to parse black stone fruit, an ethereal Low Countries yeastiness, and more weak leafy, earthy, and herbal hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a touch of that nutty yeast character that has had me at sea since we first met. It finishes trending dry, the malt and weird yeasty notes not getting any better with age.
Overall - yeah, they certainly swung and missed bigly with this one. There is nothing synchronous whatsoever going on here, and if you didn't tell me that it was a red/amber ale, I wouldn't have been able to discern it for myself. Not particularly pleasant to put back, I'm afraid to say.
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