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Apex Brewing
- From:
- Apex Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- California Common / Steam Beer
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.55 | pDev: 1.41%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 10, 2017
- Added:
- Jul 20, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.61/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.61/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
16oz pint at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. A German-style steam beer.
This beer appears a glassy, medium apricot amber colour, with one skinny finger of wispy and weakly bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some sparse Swiss cheese lace around the glass as things slowly progress.
It smells of a prominent baked apple and generic citrus fruitiness, earthy yeast, grainy and bready caramel malt, faint ashy notes, and some very tame leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, apples and pears, a sort of musty yeastiness, and more understated earthy, herbal, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite laid-back in its merely supportive frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with little else to say here. It finishes off-dry, in a lightly toasted bready manner, with some attendant lingering fruitiness.
Overall, since I have zero other examples of the style with which to compare this offering, I must fall back on the New World granddaddy of it all: Anchor Steam. Simply put, while this is kind of weird, and hard to parse, it is certainly the more affable and quaffable of the two. And I'm starting to think that the use of the German version (in the beer, and especially in the name) was a conscious decision, given the latter's litigious tendencies.
Jul 30, 2017This beer appears a glassy, medium apricot amber colour, with one skinny finger of wispy and weakly bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some sparse Swiss cheese lace around the glass as things slowly progress.
It smells of a prominent baked apple and generic citrus fruitiness, earthy yeast, grainy and bready caramel malt, faint ashy notes, and some very tame leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, apples and pears, a sort of musty yeastiness, and more understated earthy, herbal, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite laid-back in its merely supportive frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with little else to say here. It finishes off-dry, in a lightly toasted bready manner, with some attendant lingering fruitiness.
Overall, since I have zero other examples of the style with which to compare this offering, I must fall back on the New World granddaddy of it all: Anchor Steam. Simply put, while this is kind of weird, and hard to parse, it is certainly the more affable and quaffable of the two. And I'm starting to think that the use of the German version (in the beer, and especially in the name) was a conscious decision, given the latter's litigious tendencies.
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