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Yukon Brewing
- From:
- Yukon Brewing
- Yukon, Canada
- Style:
- Kölsch
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.54 | pDev: 2.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 23, 2015
- Added:
- Feb 28, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.54/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Appearance - Pours a slightly hazy gold with three fingers of foamy white head.
Smell - saskatoon berries, bready malts, earthy and leafy noble hops.
Taste - Bready malts start the brew off followed by a hint of the saskatoon berries. The earthy and leafy noble hops round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes with a slight tartness from the saskatoon berries.
Overall - A good attempt at brewing with saskatoon berries. However, I feel that there weren't enough berries used in the mix. Otherwise, a crisp and refreshing brew on this warm Calgary evening.
May 23, 2015Smell - saskatoon berries, bready malts, earthy and leafy noble hops.
Taste - Bready malts start the brew off followed by a hint of the saskatoon berries. The earthy and leafy noble hops round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with light to moderate carbonation. Finishes with a slight tartness from the saskatoon berries.
Overall - A good attempt at brewing with saskatoon berries. However, I feel that there weren't enough berries used in the mix. Otherwise, a crisp and refreshing brew on this warm Calgary evening.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.64/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.64/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle. This seems to be the Yukon Holiday, re-brewed with Saskatoon berries from (horrors!) Vancouver. What, no cartoon hotties on this particular label?
This beer pours a clear, pink-tinged pale golden straw hue, with a skinny cap of weakly foamy, and thinly bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of low-lying roiling wavecrest lace around the glass as things slowly recede.
It smells of semi-sweet bready pale malt, a touch of wan caramel, indistinct black fruit notes - so, Saskatoons, then - and rather tame earthy, leafy, and weedy hops. The taste is more bready and doughy pale and caramel malts, a more bruised drupe-like than dark fleshy trail-side fruitiness, a touch of hard water flintiness, and plain earthy, leafy noble hops.
The carbonation is quite understated, just a meek frothiness to contend with throughout, the body an adequate medium weight for the style, and so-so in terms of smoothness, a bit of hoppy astringency playing the part of the pea in the mattress. It finishes off-dry, the breadiness of the Vienna malt holding fast, in the near absence of the guest fruit, and the malingering hops.
While I first cast aspersions on the validity of using a west-coast supplier for the Prairies' (and that includes the Yukon Territory) most venerable wild fruit, I don't think that's the problem here, in the end. Really, it seems that Yukon just didn't use enough of 'em, as what I'm (still) enjoying right now is not altogether different than the base Kolsch.
Mar 01, 2015This beer pours a clear, pink-tinged pale golden straw hue, with a skinny cap of weakly foamy, and thinly bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of low-lying roiling wavecrest lace around the glass as things slowly recede.
It smells of semi-sweet bready pale malt, a touch of wan caramel, indistinct black fruit notes - so, Saskatoons, then - and rather tame earthy, leafy, and weedy hops. The taste is more bready and doughy pale and caramel malts, a more bruised drupe-like than dark fleshy trail-side fruitiness, a touch of hard water flintiness, and plain earthy, leafy noble hops.
The carbonation is quite understated, just a meek frothiness to contend with throughout, the body an adequate medium weight for the style, and so-so in terms of smoothness, a bit of hoppy astringency playing the part of the pea in the mattress. It finishes off-dry, the breadiness of the Vienna malt holding fast, in the near absence of the guest fruit, and the malingering hops.
While I first cast aspersions on the validity of using a west-coast supplier for the Prairies' (and that includes the Yukon Territory) most venerable wild fruit, I don't think that's the problem here, in the end. Really, it seems that Yukon just didn't use enough of 'em, as what I'm (still) enjoying right now is not altogether different than the base Kolsch.
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