Sourdough Or Cheechako Harvest Brown Ale
Yukon Brewing
- From:
- Yukon Brewing
- Yukon, Canada
- Style:
- English Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.72 | pDev: 1.34%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 04, 2017
- Added:
- Sep 02, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.66/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.66/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - the name here refers to historical mining industry slang from Alaska and Northwestern Canada, with 'sourdough' being an old-timer, and 'cheechako' meaning 'tenderfoot', i.e. a newbie.
This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick tinted brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves a few instances of eroding sea cliff lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of roasted caramel malt, a hint of biscuity toffee, bittersweet cocoa powder, mild cafe-au-lait notes, an ethereal earthy yeastiness, and some plain leafy, weedy, and musky floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, a bit of free-range ashiness, some weird sour fruitiness, pithy nuts, stale dime-store chocolate, yesterday's coffee grounds, and more well understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-perking frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and more or less smooth, with just a bit of smoke maybe not toeing the company line. It finishes off-dry, the nutty malt and muddled fruity essences holding court.
Overall, this is a serviceable enough version of the style, all typical points hammered home with a splintery old pick-axe. I suppose that if I were to apply the titular terminology to what we do here, there's no way in hell that I'm a Cheechako, that's for darn tootin'!
Oct 04, 2017This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick tinted brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves a few instances of eroding sea cliff lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of roasted caramel malt, a hint of biscuity toffee, bittersweet cocoa powder, mild cafe-au-lait notes, an ethereal earthy yeastiness, and some plain leafy, weedy, and musky floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, a bit of free-range ashiness, some weird sour fruitiness, pithy nuts, stale dime-store chocolate, yesterday's coffee grounds, and more well understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-perking frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and more or less smooth, with just a bit of smoke maybe not toeing the company line. It finishes off-dry, the nutty malt and muddled fruity essences holding court.
Overall, this is a serviceable enough version of the style, all typical points hammered home with a splintery old pick-axe. I suppose that if I were to apply the titular terminology to what we do here, there's no way in hell that I'm a Cheechako, that's for darn tootin'!
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