Coastal IPA
Old Abbey Ales
- From:
- Old Abbey Ales
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.63 | pDev: 6.06%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 24, 2021
- Added:
- May 14, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
NO SCORE
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by bilbobrewer from Oregon
3.42/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.42/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Golf clap for the 2017 review by biboergosum. Spot on with his numerous observations!
Vis: 'strong beer' warning...yet sessionable ?! WTF?!?
My own adds: .
Yeast characters clearly dominate the hops here, as one might predict in a Belgian-influenced recipe. (Note that freshness issues may also impact the flavor impressions, as NO freshness dating is provided with this product....boo!)
Anyway, this is a very abbey-influenced beer. More bluntly, an IPA with its hops simply overwhelmed with a Belgian love of yeast.
But as far as an IPA for the Pacific NW market ?!? My most generous assessment is "a unique-tasting, IPA hybrid". But more candidly,...just a confusing, probably stale mess.
Feb 24, 2021Vis: 'strong beer' warning...yet sessionable ?! WTF?!?
My own adds: .
Yeast characters clearly dominate the hops here, as one might predict in a Belgian-influenced recipe. (Note that freshness issues may also impact the flavor impressions, as NO freshness dating is provided with this product....boo!)
Anyway, this is a very abbey-influenced beer. More bluntly, an IPA with its hops simply overwhelmed with a Belgian love of yeast.
But as far as an IPA for the Pacific NW market ?!? My most generous assessment is "a unique-tasting, IPA hybrid". But more candidly,...just a confusing, probably stale mess.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.42/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.42/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - I love how they refer to this as 'sessionable' on the label, for a brew with an elevated ABV.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden amber colour, with a weirdly teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and chunky ecru head, which leaves a bit of spotty and sudsy lace around the glass as it very slowly abates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, buttered white crackers, a muddled tropical fruitiness, some phenolic yeasty notes, ethereal black pepper, and some plain leafy, weedy, and dead floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, rising funky yeast, white and black peppercorns, faint domestic citrus rind, a still hard to parse exotic fruitiness, and more earthy, weedy, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its poking and prodding frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and not particularly smooth - not with all that estery yeast flitting about. It finishes off-dry, and rather fruity, from both the citrusy and stone fruit vectors.
Overall, I don't know what coast this brewery is actually aiming for with the name here, but I'm guessing it's not the one most proximate to them - more like one much nearer Flanders. Hence acclimated to that fact (missing from the label's marketing screed, of course), I can sort of appreciate the relatively gentle Belgian IPA nature of this brew. But fool me once...
Feb 15, 2017This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden amber colour, with a weirdly teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and chunky ecru head, which leaves a bit of spotty and sudsy lace around the glass as it very slowly abates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, buttered white crackers, a muddled tropical fruitiness, some phenolic yeasty notes, ethereal black pepper, and some plain leafy, weedy, and dead floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, rising funky yeast, white and black peppercorns, faint domestic citrus rind, a still hard to parse exotic fruitiness, and more earthy, weedy, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its poking and prodding frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and not particularly smooth - not with all that estery yeast flitting about. It finishes off-dry, and rather fruity, from both the citrusy and stone fruit vectors.
Overall, I don't know what coast this brewery is actually aiming for with the name here, but I'm guessing it's not the one most proximate to them - more like one much nearer Flanders. Hence acclimated to that fact (missing from the label's marketing screed, of course), I can sort of appreciate the relatively gentle Belgian IPA nature of this brew. But fool me once...
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.92/5 rDev +8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Old Abbey Ales 'Coastal IPA' @ 6.5% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $5.40
A-pour is gold from the bottle to a clear golden amber in the glass with a large white head leaving a spotty lace film along the pint
S-orange zest & pepper
T-caramel malt & honey , slight bitter finish
MF-ok carbonation , feels full bodied
Ov-has a certain funk about it that I like
prost LampertLand
Jul 01, 2016A-pour is gold from the bottle to a clear golden amber in the glass with a large white head leaving a spotty lace film along the pint
S-orange zest & pepper
T-caramel malt & honey , slight bitter finish
MF-ok carbonation , feels full bodied
Ov-has a certain funk about it that I like
prost LampertLand
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