Alberta Big Heart Ale
Boiling Oar Brewing Company
- From:
- Boiling Oar Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- English Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.59 | pDev: 9.47%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 27, 2016
- Added:
- Jun 26, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.93/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
16oz glass at Beer Revolution Oliver Square. Nice to see this nascent Cowtown operation getting their stuff to places beyond Craft Beer Market. Apparently this is also a fundraiser for the rebuilding of Fort McMurray.
This beer appears a clear, glassy medium copper amber colour, with one skinny finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some stellar pockmarked concrete wall lace around the glass as things quickly abate.
It smells of genial bready caramel malt, mixed pome and sugary citrus fruit flesh, a twinge of hard water flintiness, and tame earthy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready caramel malt, biscuity toffee, red apple skins, placid orange and white grapefruit pith, a mild chalkiness, and more heady floral, leafy, and grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly hefty in its stolid frothiness, the body a heavy-punching middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a hint of green hop acerbity mussing about here. It finishes off-dry, the biscuity malt starting to give me those ESB heebie jeebies.
Overall, a very well-wrought pale ale, though one with a bit of an identity problem (other than the fact that it is certainly from Alberta, c. 2016). Kind of a blend of English and American in the way of the IPA, which makes it Canuckian, yeah, but I'm holding to my ESB leanings, exact ABV included.
Jun 27, 2016This beer appears a clear, glassy medium copper amber colour, with one skinny finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some stellar pockmarked concrete wall lace around the glass as things quickly abate.
It smells of genial bready caramel malt, mixed pome and sugary citrus fruit flesh, a twinge of hard water flintiness, and tame earthy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready caramel malt, biscuity toffee, red apple skins, placid orange and white grapefruit pith, a mild chalkiness, and more heady floral, leafy, and grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly hefty in its stolid frothiness, the body a heavy-punching middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a hint of green hop acerbity mussing about here. It finishes off-dry, the biscuity malt starting to give me those ESB heebie jeebies.
Overall, a very well-wrought pale ale, though one with a bit of an identity problem (other than the fact that it is certainly from Alberta, c. 2016). Kind of a blend of English and American in the way of the IPA, which makes it Canuckian, yeah, but I'm holding to my ESB leanings, exact ABV included.
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