Do Gooder
Upstreet Craft Brewing

Poured from a 473ml can.

Appearance - Pours a light copper with two fingers of frothy white head.

Smell - citrus, earthy, leafy, piney, floral, and herbal hobs, light pine resin, citrus and grapefruit peel, bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast.

Taste - mild bite from the citrus, earthy, leafy, piney, floral, and herbal hops upfront. The light pine resin, citrus and grapefruit peel come through next. The bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast round out the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes slightly sticky with the hops, malts, and grapefruit peel lingering.

Overall - A easy drinking APA. I wish the hops were dialed up just a tad but otherwise a pleasant tipple.

 

 

Lovely light copper colour with moderate head and nice lacing down the sides of the glass. The usual citrus nose with a firm malt backbone and smooth resinous finish. A well-constructed APA.

 

500ml bottle - a balanced pale ale, so sez the marketing blurb on the label.

This beer pours a mostly clear, medium orange-brick brown colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent layered hanging trellis lace around the glass as it very slowly abates.

It smells of gritty and grainy caramel malt, some orange, white grapefruit and lemon citrus rind, hints of minerality, and a zingy leafy, piney, and floral green hoppiness. The taste is edgy resinous pine needles, crackery and grainy caramel malt, more orange, red grapefruit, and lemon/lime citrus acridity, a flinty stoniness, some further leafy and floral hop bitters, and maybe a suggestion of earthy yeast.

The carbonation is pretty tight, in terms of its terse frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and sort of smooth, as the various hoppy esters flit about, appearing to be up to no good. It finishes off-dry, barely, the crackery malt still swatting at the lingering verdant hops like they were pesky gnats.

Overall, this one somehow lives up to its claims of balance in the ol' hop/malt, yin/yang sort of way, even though the piney and citrusy essences seem poised to overwhelm at times. A neat trick, if you can pull it off, and they surely do a gooder of it here.

 

 

Serving Type: 500 mL Bottle

A- Pours a hazy Copper Amber colour topped by a white, foamy 1 1/2 finger head. Good retention and a fair amount of lacing

S- Pine resin, slight citrus.

T- Pine bomb with a side of orange. Not much malt going on here but it doesn't seem to be off-balanced.

M- Medium Body and Moderate Carbonation. Easy drinking.

O- An easy drinking pine bomb. Whats not to like?

 

Decent hop flavour if weak.