Southern Aspect IPA
Banded Peak Brewing Co.
- From:
- Banded Peak Brewing Co.
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
Ranked #2,569 - ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 87
Ranked #21,965 - Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 6.94%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 12, 2026
- Added:
- Sep 30, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
87
Very Good
87
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Ghrymm from Canada (BC)
3.94/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at the Vin Room, Calgary Airport.
A nice looking pour, a weak bread doe hop nose.
Taste is the West Coast/ Hazy IPA mix, nice a smooth hop finish.
A nice all round IPA.
Oct 02, 2024A nice looking pour, a weak bread doe hop nose.
Taste is the West Coast/ Hazy IPA mix, nice a smooth hop finish.
A nice all round IPA.
Reviewed by aklavall from Canada (AB)
3.09/5 rDev -20.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.09/5 rDev -20.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Pours dark gold and quite hazy with a finger if nice white head.
Smells strongly of pineapple accompanied with pine
The taste definitely grabs more of the malt flavours than the nose. Cracker and bread hits me first followed by hints of pineapple and pine. Has nice carbonation, medium body, and finishes rather dry
Overall a nice APA
Sep 13, 2021Smells strongly of pineapple accompanied with pine
The taste definitely grabs more of the malt flavours than the nose. Cracker and bread hits me first followed by hints of pineapple and pine. Has nice carbonation, medium body, and finishes rather dry
Overall a nice APA
Reviewed by Hat_Fulla_Beer from Canada (AB)
4.03/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
473ml can poured into tulip.
Pours a slightly hazy warm copper with one finger of beige head that leaves some chunky coral reef lace as it recedes.
Smells of sweet biscuit, sappy pine branches, grapefruit flesh, orange rind, pineapple and lush green hops.
Tastes of more biscuity caramel malt, blood orange, grapefruit juice, hard water and pine resin.
Feels soft and full. Medium bodied with cushy carbonation. Finishes off-dry.
Verdict: Highly recommended. A good old-fashioned IPA.
Apr 16, 2020Pours a slightly hazy warm copper with one finger of beige head that leaves some chunky coral reef lace as it recedes.
Smells of sweet biscuit, sappy pine branches, grapefruit flesh, orange rind, pineapple and lush green hops.
Tastes of more biscuity caramel malt, blood orange, grapefruit juice, hard water and pine resin.
Feels soft and full. Medium bodied with cushy carbonation. Finishes off-dry.
Verdict: Highly recommended. A good old-fashioned IPA.
Reviewed by kitsgrad84 from Canada (AB)
3.81/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Very good beer from Calgary Banded Peak. Leafy with a spectrum of fruitiness and pine. Course haze w/good carbonation and thick head. Warm dry malt finish with a faithful apa taste. Well done
May 25, 2019
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
4/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
16oz glass at the Alberta Beer Week tap takeover at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver. Nice to see this new Cowtown operation getting their product up here!
This beer appears a rather hazy, bright medium apricot amber colour, with one finger of puffy, rocky, and chunky eggshell white head, which leaves some pockmarked limestone wall lace around the glass as it quickly and evenly subsides.
It smells of resinous pine needles, white chalk, acrid orange and red grapefruit pith, gritty and grainy pale malt, a twinge of further muddled tropical fruitiness, and more leafy, weedy, and estery floral green hoppiness. The taste is crackery and grainy pale malt, a lesser biscuity caramel sweetness, mixed citrus and exotic fruity notes, more flinty chalkiness, some leafy, floral, and piney hop bitters, and a suggestion of a notion of a sense of metallic alcohol warming.
The carbonation is adequate in its supportive and sometimes jocular frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, as the usual interlopers seem otherwise distracted here. It finishes trending dry, as the general sweetness drops out of the lingering malt.
Overall, I don't know exactly how far south this brewer intended their 'aspect' to be, but I would proffer that it starts and ends somewhere around Vermont - yeah, turbid, chalky, and more focused on verdant, instead of fruity hop character. But maybe it's just me. At any rate, a very well-wrought IPA.
Sep 30, 2016This beer appears a rather hazy, bright medium apricot amber colour, with one finger of puffy, rocky, and chunky eggshell white head, which leaves some pockmarked limestone wall lace around the glass as it quickly and evenly subsides.
It smells of resinous pine needles, white chalk, acrid orange and red grapefruit pith, gritty and grainy pale malt, a twinge of further muddled tropical fruitiness, and more leafy, weedy, and estery floral green hoppiness. The taste is crackery and grainy pale malt, a lesser biscuity caramel sweetness, mixed citrus and exotic fruity notes, more flinty chalkiness, some leafy, floral, and piney hop bitters, and a suggestion of a notion of a sense of metallic alcohol warming.
The carbonation is adequate in its supportive and sometimes jocular frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, as the usual interlopers seem otherwise distracted here. It finishes trending dry, as the general sweetness drops out of the lingering malt.
Overall, I don't know exactly how far south this brewer intended their 'aspect' to be, but I would proffer that it starts and ends somewhere around Vermont - yeah, turbid, chalky, and more focused on verdant, instead of fruity hop character. But maybe it's just me. At any rate, a very well-wrought IPA.
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