Osprey
The Tin Whistle Brewing Company
- From:
- The Tin Whistle Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- 87
- Avg:
- 3.86 | pDev: 7.51%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 18, 2016
- Added:
- May 31, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
87
Very Good
87
Very Good
This unfiltered White IPA combines the fruity character of Belgian yeast with pear and apple forward hops and fresh pressed Okanagan pears to create a beer that soars to new heights.
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Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.74/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
This beer has got lots going for it. I really enjoyed the fresh fruit influence - very appropriate for an Okanagan brewery. The hops leave no doubt this is an IPA, and it is very light on the palate. Best of all, it's named after a kick-ass fishing hawk will nest near many of my favorite fishing spots.
May 26, 2015
Reviewed by souvenirs from Canada (BC)
3.53/5 rDev -8.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev -8.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
$5.40 plus deposit at the BC Liquore Store.
A: Pale yellow and cloudy, with what's now settled to just a wisp of head.
S: Mildly fruity, some spiciness from the yeast.
T: Pleasantly bitter, or maybe the bitterness is just refreshing after trying a not-so-bitter Imperial IPA from a different brewery yesterday. This is much better. I certainly wouldn't mind more varied hop flavours. This is grassy and not a whole lot else. There's a bit of spiciness on the tongue. I don't know if I'm really getting the pear.
F: Could be just a touch thicker, but really, there's not much to complain about.
O: Not a new favourite, but I don't regret giving it a try.
Jun 09, 2014A: Pale yellow and cloudy, with what's now settled to just a wisp of head.
S: Mildly fruity, some spiciness from the yeast.
T: Pleasantly bitter, or maybe the bitterness is just refreshing after trying a not-so-bitter Imperial IPA from a different brewery yesterday. This is much better. I certainly wouldn't mind more varied hop flavours. This is grassy and not a whole lot else. There's a bit of spiciness on the tongue. I don't know if I'm really getting the pear.
F: Could be just a touch thicker, but really, there's not much to complain about.
O: Not a new favourite, but I don't regret giving it a try.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.58/5 rDev -7.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev -7.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle. Made with Belgian yeast and Okanagan pears, which duly explains the wholly new beer 'style' to me here.
This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow hue, with three fingers of puffy, frothy, and melting marshmallow evocative off-white head, which leaves some sudsy hanging cloud lace around the glass as it evenly blows off.
It smells of sharp, somewhat spicy Belgian yeast, banana cream, Poire William liqueur, musty apples, gritty pale and wheaty malt, an indistinct spiciness that always inspires in me the black pepper/clove standard, and mild floral, earthy hops. The taste is more edgy, zingy Low Countries yeast, crackery pale malt, an additional doughy and spicy wheaty breadiness, muddled pear, apple, and peach fruitiness, and some meek leafy, somewhat piney hoppiness, one increasingly tinged by a lurking perfume-enabling booziness.
The carbonation is a bit tight in its rendition of playful frothiness, the body a stodgy medium weight, and perhaps too edgy from yeast and hidden (I'm ever hopeful) hop astringencies to be deemed all that smooth. It finishes off-dry, just, as the wheaty malt primes its death throes, amongst a plain weedy, leafy hoppiness and some thankfully equally doomed yeast character.
As usual, going all native Belgian on a maybe not quite up for it IPA doesn't quite work out the way you want it to (and if it does, we have differing ideas on what good beer is). Add to it a sadly naive fresh pear sacrifice that eventually goes nowhere, other than to weakly attenuate the heady yeast component here - and thus lost in it all, is the very essence of the supposed IPA itself.
Jun 08, 2014This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow hue, with three fingers of puffy, frothy, and melting marshmallow evocative off-white head, which leaves some sudsy hanging cloud lace around the glass as it evenly blows off.
It smells of sharp, somewhat spicy Belgian yeast, banana cream, Poire William liqueur, musty apples, gritty pale and wheaty malt, an indistinct spiciness that always inspires in me the black pepper/clove standard, and mild floral, earthy hops. The taste is more edgy, zingy Low Countries yeast, crackery pale malt, an additional doughy and spicy wheaty breadiness, muddled pear, apple, and peach fruitiness, and some meek leafy, somewhat piney hoppiness, one increasingly tinged by a lurking perfume-enabling booziness.
The carbonation is a bit tight in its rendition of playful frothiness, the body a stodgy medium weight, and perhaps too edgy from yeast and hidden (I'm ever hopeful) hop astringencies to be deemed all that smooth. It finishes off-dry, just, as the wheaty malt primes its death throes, amongst a plain weedy, leafy hoppiness and some thankfully equally doomed yeast character.
As usual, going all native Belgian on a maybe not quite up for it IPA doesn't quite work out the way you want it to (and if it does, we have differing ideas on what good beer is). Add to it a sadly naive fresh pear sacrifice that eventually goes nowhere, other than to weakly attenuate the heady yeast component here - and thus lost in it all, is the very essence of the supposed IPA itself.
Reviewed by Niceroad77 from Canada (BC)
4.1/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Pours a cloudy straw colour with ok foam and medium retention leaving some lacing. Smells like nice pear juice and a hint of belgian yeast. Very hop forward taste with some apple, pear and mostly pine needles. The belgian yeast is also very present. A good beer.
May 31, 2014
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