Pickled Padre
Situation Brewing
- From:
- Situation Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- English Barleywine
- ABV:
- 10.2%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.36 | pDev: 10.71%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 23, 2016
- Added:
- Dec 10, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev +10.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev +10.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
1L howler, from Keg n' Cork - always nice to buy this at a more convenient locale than dead center Whyte Ave. Good name for a Quad, but much less so for the proclaimed style - WTF is wrong with the marketing at this brewing concern?
This beer pours a slightly hazy, dark red-brick amber colour, with one finger of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy tan head, which leaves some chunky emerging iceberg lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, biscuity toffee, mixed citrus and dark generic fruity notes, very underwhelming under yer parent's basement stairs musty notes (for the proclaimed style), some subtly phenolic yeastiness, and a sense of metallic booziness nearly unrestrained. The taste is rather sweet, pastry-fed caramel and toffee malt, generic biscuits, some sozzled black and blue orchard fruitiness, well-restrained wayward son yeasty esters, Yuk-a-Flux quality citrus notes, and more musty, leafy, and certainly perfumed floral green hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its subtly beguiling frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, as all that caramel goodness can't help but, well, help in that regard. It finishes off-dry, and not nearly as sweet as this scribe might have been expecting - toasted malt, besotted fruit, and yeah, more well-restrained wowee sauce.
Overall, the focus on the English side of the barleywine spectrum has at least been tight here - no overt American hoppiness shows up, yet the typically musty (in a good way) character of the UK version seems a tad lacking. A pithy quarrel, one might opine, but hey, that's what we're all here for, amirite?
Dec 10, 2016This beer pours a slightly hazy, dark red-brick amber colour, with one finger of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy tan head, which leaves some chunky emerging iceberg lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, biscuity toffee, mixed citrus and dark generic fruity notes, very underwhelming under yer parent's basement stairs musty notes (for the proclaimed style), some subtly phenolic yeastiness, and a sense of metallic booziness nearly unrestrained. The taste is rather sweet, pastry-fed caramel and toffee malt, generic biscuits, some sozzled black and blue orchard fruitiness, well-restrained wayward son yeasty esters, Yuk-a-Flux quality citrus notes, and more musty, leafy, and certainly perfumed floral green hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its subtly beguiling frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, as all that caramel goodness can't help but, well, help in that regard. It finishes off-dry, and not nearly as sweet as this scribe might have been expecting - toasted malt, besotted fruit, and yeah, more well-restrained wowee sauce.
Overall, the focus on the English side of the barleywine spectrum has at least been tight here - no overt American hoppiness shows up, yet the typically musty (in a good way) character of the UK version seems a tad lacking. A pithy quarrel, one might opine, but hey, that's what we're all here for, amirite?
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