Deadline
The Napanee Beer Company
- From:
- The Napanee Beer Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.39 | pDev: 11.5%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 25, 2021
- Added:
- Jul 13, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.56/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.56/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
[Updated Dec 4 2020]
Another tallboy, this one dated Sept 8 2020 and served slightly chilled. Pours crystal clear golden-yellow, with half an inch of frothy white head that was gone in sixty seconds. A thin collar remains, with minimal lace left in its wake. It smells of grainy pale malts and bready, biscuity sweetness with a hint of earthy, herbal hops.
This is a serviceable pale lager, and not at all similar to the can of Deadline that I reviewed yesterday. I'm tasting bready, doughy pale malts and lightly honeyed sweetness, followed by an herbal, slightly earthy hop bitterness nearer the finish. Lightly sweet aftertaste of grains and honey that fades within a second or so. Light in body, with moderate carbonation that briskly agitates the palate; feels crisp at first, but finishes smooth. Very easy to gulp back.
Final Grade: 3.57, a B grade. Napanee's Deadline is an acceptable craft lager with a relatively robust pale malt-dominated flavour profile. It's nothing fancy, and I certainly wouldn't go out of my way for more, but I'd still say it's worth a spin if you have a predilection for this type of beer.
Note: This is not even close to the same beer from yesterday - I'm now convinced that the previous can (which I purchased months ago) was infected with one of their ale yeast strains (or maybe filled with a different beer entirely, but how would that even happen?). I've left the old review below for posterity, but the grade you see is based solely on the notes above.
[Original Review]
473 mL can from the LCBO; no packaging date. Served slightly chilled. Gushed a little when I opened it.
Pours a foggy golden-amber hue, capped off with more than an inch of puffy, soapy, foamy white head that lasts for the better part of five minutes. A fair amount of sticky lace is splattered about in its wake, with a bubbly collar of froth left encircling a filmy cap - quite visually attractive, but the aroma is somewhat less appealing. I'm getting gritty, grainy pale malts, cereal sweetness and bruised apple flesh, with faint suggestions of musty hops and hay.
Kind of sweet for a lager - bready malts, apples, pear and apricot, with hints of banana, spicy phenolic yeast and grassy, spicy hops and clove through the finish and into the aftertaste. Light-medium in body, with ridiculously assertive carbonation that froths up in the mouth; very prickly, to the point where it's not very easy to sip back. One was plenty.
This was a bizarre glass, to the point where I am legitimately wondering if it was contaminated with a Belgian ale yeast. It's very over-carbonated, which I might be able to dismiss as a batch flaw upon re-review... but beyond that, the beer itself really reminded me of a Belgian pale ale vs. a pale lager, with lots of orchard fruity esters and a spicy yeastiness that I do not associate with its purported style. It's not entirely unappealing, but it doesn't remind me of any pale lager I've ever had.
Dec 03, 2020Another tallboy, this one dated Sept 8 2020 and served slightly chilled. Pours crystal clear golden-yellow, with half an inch of frothy white head that was gone in sixty seconds. A thin collar remains, with minimal lace left in its wake. It smells of grainy pale malts and bready, biscuity sweetness with a hint of earthy, herbal hops.
This is a serviceable pale lager, and not at all similar to the can of Deadline that I reviewed yesterday. I'm tasting bready, doughy pale malts and lightly honeyed sweetness, followed by an herbal, slightly earthy hop bitterness nearer the finish. Lightly sweet aftertaste of grains and honey that fades within a second or so. Light in body, with moderate carbonation that briskly agitates the palate; feels crisp at first, but finishes smooth. Very easy to gulp back.
Final Grade: 3.57, a B grade. Napanee's Deadline is an acceptable craft lager with a relatively robust pale malt-dominated flavour profile. It's nothing fancy, and I certainly wouldn't go out of my way for more, but I'd still say it's worth a spin if you have a predilection for this type of beer.
Note: This is not even close to the same beer from yesterday - I'm now convinced that the previous can (which I purchased months ago) was infected with one of their ale yeast strains (or maybe filled with a different beer entirely, but how would that even happen?). I've left the old review below for posterity, but the grade you see is based solely on the notes above.
[Original Review]
473 mL can from the LCBO; no packaging date. Served slightly chilled. Gushed a little when I opened it.
Pours a foggy golden-amber hue, capped off with more than an inch of puffy, soapy, foamy white head that lasts for the better part of five minutes. A fair amount of sticky lace is splattered about in its wake, with a bubbly collar of froth left encircling a filmy cap - quite visually attractive, but the aroma is somewhat less appealing. I'm getting gritty, grainy pale malts, cereal sweetness and bruised apple flesh, with faint suggestions of musty hops and hay.
Kind of sweet for a lager - bready malts, apples, pear and apricot, with hints of banana, spicy phenolic yeast and grassy, spicy hops and clove through the finish and into the aftertaste. Light-medium in body, with ridiculously assertive carbonation that froths up in the mouth; very prickly, to the point where it's not very easy to sip back. One was plenty.
This was a bizarre glass, to the point where I am legitimately wondering if it was contaminated with a Belgian ale yeast. It's very over-carbonated, which I might be able to dismiss as a batch flaw upon re-review... but beyond that, the beer itself really reminded me of a Belgian pale ale vs. a pale lager, with lots of orchard fruity esters and a spicy yeastiness that I do not associate with its purported style. It's not entirely unappealing, but it doesn't remind me of any pale lager I've ever had.
Reviewed by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.68/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.68/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a nice clear gold colour with a reasonable head. Smell is grains and cereals. Taste is slightly bitter from the hops. A very nice blonde lager
Feb 4 2023
Nov 07, 2020Feb 4 2023
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