You Only Live Once
Yukon Brewing
- From:
- Yukon Brewing
- Yukon, Canada
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 7.5%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.86 | pDev: 4.92%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 28, 2017
- Added:
- Jan 18, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
4.08/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.08/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Appearance - Pours a deep copper with three fingers of dense cream-coloured head.
Smell - Bready caramel malts, toffee, citrus, piney hops, touch of grapefruit peel, pine resin, and tropical fruits.
Taste - Flavours of bready caramel malts and toffee, along with the piney hops and citrus. Bitterness and predominance of hop flavour is less than the smell would suggest. Nice accents of peel, resin and tropical fruit.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes a little sticky with toffee sweetness and hop bitterness.
Overall - An enjoyable imperial red ale by Yukon that showcases a great range of flavours. Minor tweaking to give some more hop 'oomph' would be nice, but certainly not a setback. Another great beer that shows the creative direction Yukon is taking.
Feb 12, 2015Smell - Bready caramel malts, toffee, citrus, piney hops, touch of grapefruit peel, pine resin, and tropical fruits.
Taste - Flavours of bready caramel malts and toffee, along with the piney hops and citrus. Bitterness and predominance of hop flavour is less than the smell would suggest. Nice accents of peel, resin and tropical fruit.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes a little sticky with toffee sweetness and hop bitterness.
Overall - An enjoyable imperial red ale by Yukon that showcases a great range of flavours. Minor tweaking to give some more hop 'oomph' would be nice, but certainly not a setback. Another great beer that shows the creative direction Yukon is taking.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.93/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - new name, new format, and different ABV than the draft-only red ale from a few years back. And new marketing angle, too, given the past few labels from this brewery - apparently sex still sells, even way up north of 60.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium red-brick amber hue, with three fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves some layered sudsy catwalk lace around the glass as things quickly subside.
It smells of peppy Texas red grapefruit and blood orange citrus rind, gritty, grainy caramel malt, dry crackery toffee, more edgy leafy and piney hop notes, and a bristling metallic booziness. The taste is bready, kind of doughy caramel malt, muddled citrus grove flesh, a mild watery flintiness, an earthy, leafy, and piney bitterness, and some tame warming alcohol that generally keeps its head down.
The carbonation is fairly light and fanciful, manifesting in a cutesy frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, with a slight airy creaminess sidling its way in. It all finishes off-dry, the caramel malt holding tight, amongst the waning citrus and green forest floor bitters.
Overall, an engaging and tasty hopped-up amber ale, both camps bringing their A(-) game. Perhaps a tad thin towards the end, but that's an easily remediable problem - back to the wellspring we go. Anyways, returning to the marketing imagery - I'm beginning to wonder if the supposedly lucky dude on the label is meant to resemble an actual person?
Jan 18, 2015This beer pours a clear, bright medium red-brick amber hue, with three fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves some layered sudsy catwalk lace around the glass as things quickly subside.
It smells of peppy Texas red grapefruit and blood orange citrus rind, gritty, grainy caramel malt, dry crackery toffee, more edgy leafy and piney hop notes, and a bristling metallic booziness. The taste is bready, kind of doughy caramel malt, muddled citrus grove flesh, a mild watery flintiness, an earthy, leafy, and piney bitterness, and some tame warming alcohol that generally keeps its head down.
The carbonation is fairly light and fanciful, manifesting in a cutesy frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, with a slight airy creaminess sidling its way in. It all finishes off-dry, the caramel malt holding tight, amongst the waning citrus and green forest floor bitters.
Overall, an engaging and tasty hopped-up amber ale, both camps bringing their A(-) game. Perhaps a tad thin towards the end, but that's an easily remediable problem - back to the wellspring we go. Anyways, returning to the marketing imagery - I'm beginning to wonder if the supposedly lucky dude on the label is meant to resemble an actual person?
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