Aurora
Provincial Brand Ltd
- From:
- Provincial Brand Ltd
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Blonde Ale
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.2 | pDev: 2.19%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 30, 2016
- Added:
- Oct 12, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.13/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
3.13/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
473ml, scaled-hue can, actually called 'Aurora by Provincial', which sounds more like a perfume brand than a beer - and no indication whatsoever as to the type of brew inside. Marketing fail already.
This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, broadly foamy, and fizzy eggshell white head, which leaves a bit of peeping Ogopogo lace around the glass as it quickly dissolves.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy pale malt, further dry breakfast cereal notes, a faint apple/pear pithy fruitiness, and tame earthy, weedy, and somewhat skunky hops. The taste is bready, crackery pale malt, more grainy cereals, a soft tabletop pepper spiciness, just a twinge of phenolic plastic (the yeast, I gather), and some plain weedy, leafy and dead grassy hop bitterness.
The carbonation is pretty understated in its basic attempt at supportive frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and sort of smooth, that mild yeasty thing still kicking about a little too much. It finishes off-dry, the varied graininess doing well to linger, alongside a muted dry pome fruitiness (and the residue from their wax stickers), and a struggling earthy bitterness.
I suppose it is relevant to relate the fact that this was contract brewed at Grizzly Paw (hence the 'brewed in the Rocky Mountains' claim on the label). At any rate, the vapid marketing folks responsible for this joint were at least kind enough to clarify what this actually is to me, i.e. 'brewed as a blonde ale...but designed to appeal to fans of lager-style beers'. Yeah, I'd say they just about nailed it.
Oct 13, 2015This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, broadly foamy, and fizzy eggshell white head, which leaves a bit of peeping Ogopogo lace around the glass as it quickly dissolves.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy pale malt, further dry breakfast cereal notes, a faint apple/pear pithy fruitiness, and tame earthy, weedy, and somewhat skunky hops. The taste is bready, crackery pale malt, more grainy cereals, a soft tabletop pepper spiciness, just a twinge of phenolic plastic (the yeast, I gather), and some plain weedy, leafy and dead grassy hop bitterness.
The carbonation is pretty understated in its basic attempt at supportive frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and sort of smooth, that mild yeasty thing still kicking about a little too much. It finishes off-dry, the varied graininess doing well to linger, alongside a muted dry pome fruitiness (and the residue from their wax stickers), and a struggling earthy bitterness.
I suppose it is relevant to relate the fact that this was contract brewed at Grizzly Paw (hence the 'brewed in the Rocky Mountains' claim on the label). At any rate, the vapid marketing folks responsible for this joint were at least kind enough to clarify what this actually is to me, i.e. 'brewed as a blonde ale...but designed to appeal to fans of lager-style beers'. Yeah, I'd say they just about nailed it.
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