Queen of Spades Maibock
Yukon Brewing
- From:
- Yukon Brewing
- Yukon, Canada
- Style:
- Maibock
- ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.76 | pDev: 0.27%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 05, 2018
- Added:
- Nov 06, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
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 - the latest release (October, I know) in their “Canada 150 Series”, which also commemorates Yukon Brewing's 20 years of suds-rendering. No reason implied for the name here, as far as I can tell.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium bronzed amber colour, with one zaftig finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some jagged splotchy lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, a lesser sugary toffee thing, big stewed apple and pear fruity notes, a twinge of earthy yeastiness, and some plain leafy, weedy, and spicy floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a mixed pome and generic citrus fleshy fruitiness, ephemeral yeast, and more spicy, leafy, and wet grassy green hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its ennui-suffering frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with maybe a touch of alcohol ingress making minor waves here. It finishes off-dry, but not by much, as both the hops and sneaky-sneak booze keep things from going off of the rails.
Overall - this is a pretty good representation of the style, if one provided out of band on the seasonal scale. However, right now in Alberta, it looks a lot like Spring, and by that I mean, -8C with snow on the ground, so it's all good, I suppose, eh, Monsieur cognitive dissonance generator?
Nov 06, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium bronzed amber colour, with one zaftig finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some jagged splotchy lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, a lesser sugary toffee thing, big stewed apple and pear fruity notes, a twinge of earthy yeastiness, and some plain leafy, weedy, and spicy floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a mixed pome and generic citrus fleshy fruitiness, ephemeral yeast, and more spicy, leafy, and wet grassy green hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its ennui-suffering frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with maybe a touch of alcohol ingress making minor waves here. It finishes off-dry, but not by much, as both the hops and sneaky-sneak booze keep things from going off of the rails.
Overall - this is a pretty good representation of the style, if one provided out of band on the seasonal scale. However, right now in Alberta, it looks a lot like Spring, and by that I mean, -8C with snow on the ground, so it's all good, I suppose, eh, Monsieur cognitive dissonance generator?
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