Amplitude: Cherry
Bobcaygeon Brewing Company
- From:
- Bobcaygeon Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.55 | pDev: 3.66%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 12, 2024
- Added:
- Jun 11, 2023
- Wants:
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)
3.73/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Can: Poured a reddish color ale with a medium white foamy head with OK retention and light lacing. Aroma of tart notes with some cherry notes is easily noticeable. Taste is also a mix of tart notes with some cherry notes and light acidic notes. Body is about average with medium carbonation. Enjoyable cherry sour but lacking complexity.
Mar 12, 2024
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.43/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
3.43/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
473 mL can from the LCBO, included in Bobcaygeon's Winter Cottage Escape mixed pack; no packaging date. Served slightly chilled.
Appropriately enough, it pours a cherry-red colour with a slightly foggy complexion; it's topped with an inch of foamy, pale pink-tinged head that melts off within a couple of minutes. It leaves behind a half-inch band of even lacing, as well as a creamy collar - yep, looks like a cherry beer should. Relatively muted aroma of grainy malts and cherries; rather understated, but it smells wholesome and authentic.
The first sip was underwhelming, and it doesn't improve much over the course of the glass. I'm tasting cherry skin, grainy pale malts and mild to moderate lactic acidity that imparts a lemony twang; sweet cherry juice flavours at the forefront transition to more of a sour/tart cherry note on the back end. Armpit funk and cherry pit flash briefly in the aftertaste, before settling on a tart cherry & lactic sourness that fades into off-dryness. Light in body, with active carbonation that prickles and prods the palate continuously throughout the sip; it's crisp at first, but finishes smooth.
Final Grade: 3.43, a B-. Bobcaygeon's Cherry Amplitude is serviceable at best. While the beer itself is mostly inoffensive and actually kind of refreshing, there is plenty of room for improvement. Firstly, the cherry flavours fall a bit flat - I do not know if they used actual cherries, some sort of extract/concentrate, or a mixture of the two, but they didn't use enough of whatever it was. Together with the off-putting finish and general lack of depth, you're left with a pretty mediocre soured wheat ale with some cherry flavouring - not awful, but also not worth seeking out on purpose. I wouldn't recommend this beer, nor would I discourage others from giving it a shot.
Jan 15, 2024Appropriately enough, it pours a cherry-red colour with a slightly foggy complexion; it's topped with an inch of foamy, pale pink-tinged head that melts off within a couple of minutes. It leaves behind a half-inch band of even lacing, as well as a creamy collar - yep, looks like a cherry beer should. Relatively muted aroma of grainy malts and cherries; rather understated, but it smells wholesome and authentic.
The first sip was underwhelming, and it doesn't improve much over the course of the glass. I'm tasting cherry skin, grainy pale malts and mild to moderate lactic acidity that imparts a lemony twang; sweet cherry juice flavours at the forefront transition to more of a sour/tart cherry note on the back end. Armpit funk and cherry pit flash briefly in the aftertaste, before settling on a tart cherry & lactic sourness that fades into off-dryness. Light in body, with active carbonation that prickles and prods the palate continuously throughout the sip; it's crisp at first, but finishes smooth.
Final Grade: 3.43, a B-. Bobcaygeon's Cherry Amplitude is serviceable at best. While the beer itself is mostly inoffensive and actually kind of refreshing, there is plenty of room for improvement. Firstly, the cherry flavours fall a bit flat - I do not know if they used actual cherries, some sort of extract/concentrate, or a mixture of the two, but they didn't use enough of whatever it was. Together with the off-putting finish and general lack of depth, you're left with a pretty mediocre soured wheat ale with some cherry flavouring - not awful, but also not worth seeking out on purpose. I wouldn't recommend this beer, nor would I discourage others from giving it a shot.
Reviewed by TerryW from Canada (ON)
3.5/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Hazy and opaque. Dark shade of pink along the lines of pink grapefruit juice. Moderate head to a thin ring, no lace. Nose is noticeably sour and tart with a moderate amount of fruit. Same to taste, tart enough to give a satisfying sting, but not over the top. Fruit is understated, clear hints of cherry, but definitely nothing approaching a kriek. Some sharpness and drying bitterness to finish up. A drinkable representative of the Amplitude series, not quite as tasty as the raspberry version. Gonna be a take it or leave it popostion for most folks, I suspect.
Jun 11, 2023
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