Tiger Tale
Hell's Basement
- From:
- Hell's Basement
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.44 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 08, 2017
- Added:
- May 06, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.44/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
3.44/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
355ml can - yes, the wily ol' tiger does have a few connections to the city of Medicine Hat now, doesn't it?
This beer pours a mostly clear, pale golden amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some patchy and sudsy lace around the glass as it very slowly abates.
It smells of grainy and doughy caramel malt, a bit of buttery crackers, muddled pome and citrus fruity esters, a hint of earthy yeast, and more understated leafy, weedy, and musky floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, more buttered bready notes, still hard to parse apple-esque and citrus-like fruitiness, a fading yeasty character, and more underwhelming earthy, musty, and floral 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-boring frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and more or less smooth, with nothing really else to recommend it by here. It finishes off-dry, the buttered biscuit malt really running the lingering table.
Overall - this is a rather weird attempt at the sub-style, as there is a preponderance of malt, and very little of the expected hop offset (no, fuck that, hop onslaught) that would justify this one's existence on the new Alberta craft beer landscape. Yeah, more of a wan American Blond Ale (with butter frosted tipz), than anything remotely hop-forward, I'm afraid to say.
Nov 08, 2017This beer pours a mostly clear, pale golden amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some patchy and sudsy lace around the glass as it very slowly abates.
It smells of grainy and doughy caramel malt, a bit of buttery crackers, muddled pome and citrus fruity esters, a hint of earthy yeast, and more understated leafy, weedy, and musky floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, more buttered bready notes, still hard to parse apple-esque and citrus-like fruitiness, a fading yeasty character, and more underwhelming earthy, musty, and floral 'verdant' hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-boring frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and more or less smooth, with nothing really else to recommend it by here. It finishes off-dry, the buttered biscuit malt really running the lingering table.
Overall - this is a rather weird attempt at the sub-style, as there is a preponderance of malt, and very little of the expected hop offset (no, fuck that, hop onslaught) that would justify this one's existence on the new Alberta craft beer landscape. Yeah, more of a wan American Blond Ale (with butter frosted tipz), than anything remotely hop-forward, I'm afraid to say.
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