Up The Creek Birch Sap Ale
Yukon Brewing
- From:
- Yukon Brewing
- Yukon, Canada
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.78 | pDev: 3.7%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 24, 2016
- Added:
- Jul 13, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.91/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.91/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
There is much to appreciate and enjoy in this lovely brew. The birch sap adds a lovely sweetness that is more subtle than a fruit/honey beer. Overall, the final product is a balanced and very unique ale. I will try to secure a bottle or two for this year's Canada Day festivities.
May 18, 2015
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.75/5 rDev -0.8%
3.75/5 rDev -0.8%
Appearance - Pours a light copper colour with two fingers of foamy cream coloured head.
Smell - biscuity caramel malt, light sweetness from birch sap, light earthy hops.
Taste - Starts off with the biscuity caramel malts,light earthy hops and is rounded off by the light sweetness from the birch sap.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes dry with a pleasant smooth sweetness.
Overall - An enjoyable brew by Yukon. The birch sap adds a pleasant mellow sweetness. I like the new bottle format Yukon is trying out and the new styles they are experimenting with.
Aug 23, 2014Smell - biscuity caramel malt, light sweetness from birch sap, light earthy hops.
Taste - Starts off with the biscuity caramel malts,light earthy hops and is rounded off by the light sweetness from the birch sap.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes dry with a pleasant smooth sweetness.
Overall - An enjoyable brew by Yukon. The birch sap adds a pleasant mellow sweetness. I like the new bottle format Yukon is trying out and the new styles they are experimenting with.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle. I know that the first A.D.D. series offering was made with birch sap, but it was a Marzen, and thus a lager - this one's an ale. Nice Canadian flag canoe imagery depicted on the label.
This beer pours a crystal clear, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, frothy, and loosely foamy ecru head, which leaves some decent snow rime lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of semi-sweet, biscuity caramel malt, reduced brown sugar - with an attendant vegetal, woody character, so, ipso facto, sap - a bit of warm orange and apple pie fruitiness, and zippy leafy, earthy hops. The taste is more or less in line with the aroma - fairly sweet bready caramel malt, biscuity toffee, somewhat green and woody, but mostly sugary tree sap, muddled drupe fruit, and somewhat edgy leafy, weedy hops.
The bubbles are a tad fizzy, but mostly just plainly rendered, the body an adequate medium weight, and fairly agreeable in its straight-up smoothness. It finishes on the sweet side, the heady caramel malt sort of walking all over the guest tree goo goodness.
A decent Canadian wilderness-afflicted amber ale, the complexity of the malt the real star here, with a growing fruity sourness that further precludes the birch sap effect overall. This one is hardly up the crik, either figuratively or literally, but that don't matter much in the end.
Jul 13, 2014This beer pours a crystal clear, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, frothy, and loosely foamy ecru head, which leaves some decent snow rime lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of semi-sweet, biscuity caramel malt, reduced brown sugar - with an attendant vegetal, woody character, so, ipso facto, sap - a bit of warm orange and apple pie fruitiness, and zippy leafy, earthy hops. The taste is more or less in line with the aroma - fairly sweet bready caramel malt, biscuity toffee, somewhat green and woody, but mostly sugary tree sap, muddled drupe fruit, and somewhat edgy leafy, weedy hops.
The bubbles are a tad fizzy, but mostly just plainly rendered, the body an adequate medium weight, and fairly agreeable in its straight-up smoothness. It finishes on the sweet side, the heady caramel malt sort of walking all over the guest tree goo goodness.
A decent Canadian wilderness-afflicted amber ale, the complexity of the malt the real star here, with a growing fruity sourness that further precludes the birch sap effect overall. This one is hardly up the crik, either figuratively or literally, but that don't matter much in the end.
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