Western Promises
Russell Brewing Company
- From:
- Russell Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.67 | pDev: 3.54%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 21, 2017
- Added:
- Mar 26, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.54/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - a cute rejoinder to their relatively long-running 'Eastern Promises' Czech-style Pils, which is actually a pretty decent version of that style.
This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some random streaky and sudsy lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of bready and biscuity pale malt, a bit of estery yeastiness, some mild buttered white toast, ethereal domestic citrus rind, and more very tame earthy, leafy, and dead grassy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and crackery pale malt, some flinty stoniness, further biscuity grainy notes, muddled citrus peel, a hint of wayward son yeastiness, and more grassy, leafy, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess suggesting a tryst as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the grainy nature of the affair never far from the forefront.
Overall, this is not indicative of all that much differential from its Eastern brethren - the base malt holds steady, but the hops keep a certain middle ground attitude, wherein they don't exactly evoke a West Coast hop impression in the least. Not a bad brew, but the promises herein seem more than kind of lacking, FWIW.
Mar 27, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some random streaky and sudsy lace around the glass as it gently subsides.
It smells of bready and biscuity pale malt, a bit of estery yeastiness, some mild buttered white toast, ethereal domestic citrus rind, and more very tame earthy, leafy, and dead grassy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and crackery pale malt, some flinty stoniness, further biscuity grainy notes, muddled citrus peel, a hint of wayward son yeastiness, and more grassy, leafy, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess suggesting a tryst as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the grainy nature of the affair never far from the forefront.
Overall, this is not indicative of all that much differential from its Eastern brethren - the base malt holds steady, but the hops keep a certain middle ground attitude, wherein they don't exactly evoke a West Coast hop impression in the least. Not a bad brew, but the promises herein seem more than kind of lacking, FWIW.
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