TL:DR
Bent Stick Brewing Co.
- From:
- Bent Stick Brewing Co.
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.89 | pDev: 5.54%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 28, 2017
- Added:
- Mar 25, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.73/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.73/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
650ml bottle - this local brewing concern's first foray into the heady world of the IPA. Typical sassy name, and thus I consider going to their Facebook page in the titular manner, my little hipster douchebags.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with two skinny jeans fingers of puffy, rather loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some melting hoar frost lace around the glass as it things slowly work their way south.
It smells of musty caramel malt, a certain phenolic band-aid, er, 'quality', and well, very little else. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, ethereal biscuity toffee, buttered white toast (where the butter has been out on the counter for way too long), a lesser medicinal note than in the aroma, but it's still there, ephemeral hints of the citrus peel and estery pine forest floor detritus that never were, and with perhaps a sense of the 7 points of boozy-booze the only redeeming factor.
The carbonation is quite understated in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and sort of smooth, I suppose, once my hearty cognitive dissonance device kicks in to full power. It finishes off-dry, the wan caramel malt continuing to wonder where its so-called IPA friends/cohorts really are.
Overall, this is obviously another release (not just from this outfit) that you'd think would have had to at least pass a smell test in order to be released to the general public, yeah? Obviously not, and I'm starting to think that 'TL:DR' signifies these guys' attitude towards brewing manuals and best practices and whatnot.
Mar 27, 2017This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with two skinny jeans fingers of puffy, rather loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some melting hoar frost lace around the glass as it things slowly work their way south.
It smells of musty caramel malt, a certain phenolic band-aid, er, 'quality', and well, very little else. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, ethereal biscuity toffee, buttered white toast (where the butter has been out on the counter for way too long), a lesser medicinal note than in the aroma, but it's still there, ephemeral hints of the citrus peel and estery pine forest floor detritus that never were, and with perhaps a sense of the 7 points of boozy-booze the only redeeming factor.
The carbonation is quite understated in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and sort of smooth, I suppose, once my hearty cognitive dissonance device kicks in to full power. It finishes off-dry, the wan caramel malt continuing to wonder where its so-called IPA friends/cohorts really are.
Overall, this is obviously another release (not just from this outfit) that you'd think would have had to at least pass a smell test in order to be released to the general public, yeah? Obviously not, and I'm starting to think that 'TL:DR' signifies these guys' attitude towards brewing manuals and best practices and whatnot.
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