Mount Columbia
Banded Peak Brewing Co.
- From:
- Banded Peak Brewing Co.
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.85 | pDev: 1.3%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 21, 2021
- Added:
- May 14, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by BPVandenbroek from Canada (AB)
3.8/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.8/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Mount Columbia is cloudy and medium copper in color, reminiscent of peach marmalade. The head is dense, cream colored, and fairly lasting.
The nose is very hop forward, giving a combination of citrus, woodiness, and pine. Citrus notes give me ripe orange juice combined with orange peel, reminding me somewhat of orange marmalade. Biscuit malts take a supporting role, giving structure and support to the more assertive hop aromas.
This west coast IPA is medium bodied, bordering on chewy. Carbonation is gentle and palate cleansing. Biscuit malt, combined with hints of caramel provide support for the assertive, palate coating hop flavors. Hop flavors are a combination of orange juice, orange pith, general woodiness, and the expected pine flavors. The finish is spicy and bitter.
It's a strong, assertive IPA whose malt combines well with the woodsy parts of its hop profile.
May 21, 2021The nose is very hop forward, giving a combination of citrus, woodiness, and pine. Citrus notes give me ripe orange juice combined with orange peel, reminding me somewhat of orange marmalade. Biscuit malts take a supporting role, giving structure and support to the more assertive hop aromas.
This west coast IPA is medium bodied, bordering on chewy. Carbonation is gentle and palate cleansing. Biscuit malt, combined with hints of caramel provide support for the assertive, palate coating hop flavors. Hop flavors are a combination of orange juice, orange pith, general woodiness, and the expected pine flavors. The finish is spicy and bitter.
It's a strong, assertive IPA whose malt combines well with the woodsy parts of its hop profile.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.89/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.89/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
473ml can - thanks to the Alberta (?) rep Tracey for the sample. This is apparently the initial installment of a 12-part IPA series called 'Guardians of the Ice', in support of the retreating Columbian Icefield, and each one is to be named for a different nearby mountain.
This beer pours a murky, medium apricot yellow colour, with three pudgy fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky dirty white head, which leaves some broad swaths of splattered shotgun 'pattern' lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, some muddled domestic citrus rind, a damp minerality, and some edgy leafy, weedy, and dank piney hoppiness. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, orange and white grapefruit pith, wet stone paths after a hard rain, and more earthy, musty, and dank-o-licious piney verdant hop bitters.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, these hops of late really knowing how to treat a lady (the lady is my tongue, for the dullards in the back row). It finishes off-dry, those frooty essences making a day of it.
Overall - well, not the best representation of the west-coast ideal, in terms of traditional bitter Yankee IPA goodness, but this still brings the noize, and yet keeps in within reasonable levels, like when your supposedly cool landlord tells you 'I'm good with your tunes, fellas, but just, y'know, keep it down, eh?' Something like that, anyway.
May 14, 2021This beer pours a murky, medium apricot yellow colour, with three pudgy fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky dirty white head, which leaves some broad swaths of splattered shotgun 'pattern' lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, some muddled domestic citrus rind, a damp minerality, and some edgy leafy, weedy, and dank piney hoppiness. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, orange and white grapefruit pith, wet stone paths after a hard rain, and more earthy, musty, and dank-o-licious piney verdant hop bitters.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, these hops of late really knowing how to treat a lady (the lady is my tongue, for the dullards in the back row). It finishes off-dry, those frooty essences making a day of it.
Overall - well, not the best representation of the west-coast ideal, in terms of traditional bitter Yankee IPA goodness, but this still brings the noize, and yet keeps in within reasonable levels, like when your supposedly cool landlord tells you 'I'm good with your tunes, fellas, but just, y'know, keep it down, eh?' Something like that, anyway.
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