The Crusher
Bent Stick Brewing Co.
- From:
- Bent Stick Brewing Co.
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.54 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 18, 2016
- Added:
- Sep 17, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.54/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle, the latest from this upstart Edmonchuk brewing concern - a 'lean and mean' ISA, which is purportedly different from their plain ol' pale ale, I guess.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat creamy off-white head, which leaves some random chunky and splattered lace around the glass as it slowly dissipates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a bit of buttered white toast, some muddled pome and citrus fruitiness, and a very gentle leafy, weedy, and floral green hoppiness. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, more buttered biscuit slickness, mushy red apples, ethereal orange and white grapefruit pith, a hint of dead yeastiness, and more subtle leafy, earthy, and floral hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back by this point, via its genial frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, in a dairy product sort of manner, that is. It finishes off-dry, the buttered bread malt carrying the lingering load.
Overall, it's clear that some sort of diacetyl/yeasty thing (the bottle conditioning?) pervades this offering, but let me be clear - it's not really a bad thing. Maybe I'm just hungry, but the idea of such a concept sort of appeals to me right now. Anyways, the rest of this brew is pretty solid for an ISA, nothing lacking in the heftiness, that's for sure.
Sep 18, 2016This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat creamy off-white head, which leaves some random chunky and splattered lace around the glass as it slowly dissipates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a bit of buttered white toast, some muddled pome and citrus fruitiness, and a very gentle leafy, weedy, and floral green hoppiness. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, more buttered biscuit slickness, mushy red apples, ethereal orange and white grapefruit pith, a hint of dead yeastiness, and more subtle leafy, earthy, and floral hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back by this point, via its genial frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, in a dairy product sort of manner, that is. It finishes off-dry, the buttered bread malt carrying the lingering load.
Overall, it's clear that some sort of diacetyl/yeasty thing (the bottle conditioning?) pervades this offering, but let me be clear - it's not really a bad thing. Maybe I'm just hungry, but the idea of such a concept sort of appeals to me right now. Anyways, the rest of this brew is pretty solid for an ISA, nothing lacking in the heftiness, that's for sure.
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