Saints & Sinners
Dog Island Brewing

This beer i've seen countless time and time again and never bought it today was THE DAY this was quite the tasty brew worth the wait for sure it does have the Pale Ale smell which deters the actual flavor but this a flavorful thick packed beer will get again a defintely win for a IPA

Appearance - Pours a hazy rusty copper with three fingers of frothy white head.

Smell - piney, citrus, earthy, and leafy hops, pine resin, citrus and grapefruit peel, tropical fruits, bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast.

Taste - bold piney, citrus, earthy, and leafy hops upfront. The pine resin, citrus and grapefruit peel, and tropical fruits follow suit. The bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast finish off the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky with the hops and fruits lingering.

Overall - A very tasty and enjoyable brew from this impressive brewery. I have been impressed by the offerings I've sampled. A bold IPA that delivers on the pine resin and citrus front!

 

I’ve been keeping my eyes peeled for this much vaunted IPA, so I was thrilled to find on the shelves of Craft Beer Nation. It’s a full on west coast IPA - lots of resin and plenty of IBUs, baby! An excellent beer - dare I say worth a trip to Slave Lake to sample???

 

1L howler from a busy (duh) Sherbrooke Liquor store earlier today. I'm not kidding, I could detect the aroma of this brew the second I walked in, as they were changing out the kicked keg, soon for a new one. And I'm hoping that the name here is a freakin' Whitesnake reference!

This beer pours a hazy, medium apricot amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random splattered rock formation lace around the glass as it eventually sinks out of sight.

It smells of zingy domestic citrus rind, further muddled tropical fruity notes, bready and biscuity caramel malt, a hint of earthy yeastiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a lesser crackery toffee thing, some orange, lemon, and red grapefruit citrus fleshiness, still hard to parse exotic fruit, and more earthy, musky, and wet pinecone verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly restrained in its quotidian frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, nothing really aiding or suppressing matters here. It finishes off-dry, the malt holding its ground, while the citrusy and forest floor detritus (man, it's been a while) hops have a lingering tete-a-tete.

Overall - this is certainly one stellar local-ish version of the style, very West Coast Yankee in its hoppy reverence, yet with a few nods to some newer south seas varietals, and very stingy in showing off its nearly 7 points of booze. A pleasure to drink, and totally, totally worth the non-hipster-bar price that I paid for it.