Sirius
Lost Craft

Enjoyed from a standard 473 ml Canadian tall boy can. It was a reasonably hoppy pale ale -- not exceptionally bitter or tasty, but a good beer. Frankly, I'd probably drink it over Sierra Nevada Pale, which has always seemed a tad over-rated and under-flavored to me.

Hazy gold with a good head and spotty cap. Malt and some pine on the nose. Medium malt body with pine hoppiness. Well-balanced APA.

 

Slightly hazy and cloudy golden color with moderate activity. Thick fluffy and frothy beige 3 finger head, lasting around 15 minutes, with strong legs and decent swirl reaction. Flavors of caramel, sweet barley, lemon, with floral and herbal hops. Slick and smooth medium body with a prickly carbonation and moderate crisp. Light to medium strength finish, cereal and bready feel with light butterscotch. Feels more English than American, still not much personality and quite accessible. Balance is good though, refreshing and well bodied. Overall good quality craft.

473ml can
4.9% ABv
Main/Bronte LCBO Outlet (Milton, Ontario, Canada)
April 20, 2018
$3.00
The beer pours a hazed caramel amber colour with a generous foamy light tan coloured head that quickly disippates to rocky islamds. The ‘islands’ last awhile. The aroma is tropical fruit, weak caramel, and some biscuit malt tones. The mouthfeel is medium bodies, while carbonation is high. The flavour is very acidic with definite notes of grains and tropical fruit, and with a hint of saltiness. Very weird for the style.

WAY too carbonated.

 

473mL canned 6/21/17 poured into a Spiegelau IPA glass at fridge temp 4.9% ABV per can. The beer pours a tiny bit hazy, honey colored and supports a rocky off white head. Retention and lacing are above average. The aroma is very faint. There is a trace of caramel malt and citrus. The taste is oddly bitter with a little caramel first before a tea like finish. Mouthfeel is thin bodied, highly carbonated and dry in the finish. Overall, average to below average even bearing in mind that the beer is 7 months old. It is too thin, too weak in taste and aroma and oddly bitter (maybe from too much forced carbonation?).

 

Yellowish brown like a bruised pear, cloudy with a little visible carbonation, and 2 fingers of fluffy white head.

Smells faintly of oranges, orange zest and pine, pineapple, and fresh plastic wrap. Big notes of honey as well.

Honey, apple sauce, biscuit and cracker, the light fruitiness comes in as well and grapefruit pith. A hint of iron as well.

Medium, frothy body, with moderate carbonation. A little like juice pulp.

A solid brew, my first from this company, its complex and interesting, with a cool can. Got in Ontario, drinking it here in Muskoka, Nov 28th, 2017.

 

 

 

 

Pours gold with the tiniest of haze. Thumbs worth of head, which breaks leaving nothing. The smell is malt heavy with faint hops and a slight metallic note. The taste is malts, bready for the most part. There are some bitter pine hops that come through in the second wave. The feel is medium and medium carbonation.

A firm meh. Not horrible, not great.

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Tallboy can from the LCBO; dated Apr 13 2017 and served slightly chilled. Lost Craft recently bought out Sextant Brewery, a (short-lived) contract brewing operation whose flagship pale ale was called "Why So Sirius?". This is presumably the same beer, or possibly a slight variation upon that recipe.

Pours cloudy, effervescent, and golden-yellow in colour, with roughly two fingers of frothy white foam gathering at the surface. Head retention is quite good, as it remains in place for more than ten minutes, receding unevenly and developing a lumpy, creamy meringue-like appearance as it slowly reduces in volume. Tons of lace is also generated; it's a beautiful-looking beer, for sure. The aroma is fairly standard issue as far as pale ales go; it's citrusy, with grapefruit and lemon zest coming through, as well as a fair amount of pine resin, all of which overlaps with a subdued backdrop of grainy pale malts.

Not bad. Pale barley malts impart a gentle grainy sweetness to the flavour profile, but it's the hops that are tasked with hauling most of the load here. I'm getting mostly citrusy white grapefruit and lemon pith at the forefront, with more of a bitter, floral, pine resiny-type feel as you approach the finish. The hop flavours fade gradually thereafter, though there is a bitter sensation that lingers into the aftertaste. Fairly light-bodied, with lively, biting carbonation that feels crisp and prickly on the surface of the palate. Straightforward, approachable, and sessionable.

Final Grade: 3.83, a respectable B+. Sirius remains a decently brewed, easily-quaffed American-style pale ale - which is pretty much exactly how I felt about the old Sextant brand. It's not interesting in the least, in that the flavour profile offers nothing that Ontario hopheads will not have already tasted several times in the past. But in a way, its simplicity - and skillful application of dry-hopping - are enough to make this a serviceable hopped light ale that is worth judging for yourself. A solid summer thirst-quencher that will pair well with vinaigrette-dressed salads.

 

 

473 ml can served cold into a beer mug. Purchased from the LCBO for about $3 CDN.

Appearance - hazy dark golden color with honey brown hues. Pours a dignified two fingers of frothy white head on top, the retention is impressive and the spidery lacing equally so. Middling amount of visible carbonation.

Smell - hints of grapefruit and pineapple backed by a dense grainy malt bill with considerable sweetness.

Taste - clean with some some Hop presence, the citrus doesn't shine through in any spectacular way and the grains are less prevalent than I would've thought. A little more watery than I'd like, and while I wasn't expecting really big flavors, everything seems a little subdued.

Mouthfeel - smooth and well carbonated, body is moderate, which doesn't quite jive with the light flavors.

Overall - a respectable, but underwhelming APA. While it doesn't stand out in any way, a little more intensity on the flavor might work well here, either more hoppy or more malty. Nonetheless a decent release.