Chinook Wind Session Ale
Hell's Basement
- From:
- Hell's Basement
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.3%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 06, 2017
- Added:
- Mar 04, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.73/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
355ml can - no chinooks up around here right now, just lots of winter temps and snow. Hah, I like how they specifically mention that there are no Chinook hops in this offering!
This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy off-white head, which leaves some chunky remote island group pattern lace around the glass as it very slowly and lazily sinks away.
It smells of bready and doughy pale malt, some fruity apple and pear notes, hints of wayward son yeastiness, a further indistinct citrus rind acridity, and some plain earthy, leafy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a muddled citrus and tropical fruitiness, a suggestion of wet stone paths after a downpour, and more leafy, weedy, and wet pine needle verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly light on its fizzy and frothy feet, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, the hops more fruity than bitter, which does well by this particular metric. It finishes off-dry, the malt maintaining pretenses, while the fruitiness keeps on keepin' on.
Overall, this is certainly a tasty and somewhat interesting version of this so-called IPA 'sub-style' - I'm going with the APA classification here, mainly because the mouthfeel doesn't seem the least bit thinned out, and the hops are not all that bitter. So, session ale it is, and perhaps I will revisit this one when Spring truly arrives.
Mar 06, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy off-white head, which leaves some chunky remote island group pattern lace around the glass as it very slowly and lazily sinks away.
It smells of bready and doughy pale malt, some fruity apple and pear notes, hints of wayward son yeastiness, a further indistinct citrus rind acridity, and some plain earthy, leafy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a muddled citrus and tropical fruitiness, a suggestion of wet stone paths after a downpour, and more leafy, weedy, and wet pine needle verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly light on its fizzy and frothy feet, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, the hops more fruity than bitter, which does well by this particular metric. It finishes off-dry, the malt maintaining pretenses, while the fruitiness keeps on keepin' on.
Overall, this is certainly a tasty and somewhat interesting version of this so-called IPA 'sub-style' - I'm going with the APA classification here, mainly because the mouthfeel doesn't seem the least bit thinned out, and the hops are not all that bitter. So, session ale it is, and perhaps I will revisit this one when Spring truly arrives.
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