Wannabe IPA
Outcast Brewing
- From:
- Outcast Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.9%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.96 | pDev: 4.29%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 08, 2018
- Added:
- Jan 07, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.62/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store, who, among others call this an IPA, and then go on to describe it as a pale ale. Oh, I get it now [facepalms]!
This beer pours a hazy, pale golden straw colour, with four fingers of puffy, chunky, and somewhat bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some random splattered and sudsy lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.
It smells of resinous pine needles, gritty and grainy cereal malt, a bit of indistinct tropical fruitiness, plain Pez candies, and further leafy, musty, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and doughy pale malt, some orange and overripe grapefruit citrus rind, a touch of earthy yeastiness, some damp minerality, and more leafy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly robust in its palate-surrounding frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight, and generally smooth, nothing really attempting to make a fuss here. It finishes off-dry, the plain malt still contending with a lingering mixed hop acerbity.
Overall - yeah, this one may aspire to be an IPA, but perhaps it should focus more on being a better version of itself. There's just something a bit off going on (hah), and I suspect that it's the yeast - be it the ones who created some unwanted esters, or their dead friends still in solution, I know not.
Jan 08, 2018This beer pours a hazy, pale golden straw colour, with four fingers of puffy, chunky, and somewhat bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some random splattered and sudsy lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.
It smells of resinous pine needles, gritty and grainy cereal malt, a bit of indistinct tropical fruitiness, plain Pez candies, and further leafy, musty, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and doughy pale malt, some orange and overripe grapefruit citrus rind, a touch of earthy yeastiness, some damp minerality, and more leafy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly robust in its palate-surrounding frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight, and generally smooth, nothing really attempting to make a fuss here. It finishes off-dry, the plain malt still contending with a lingering mixed hop acerbity.
Overall - yeah, this one may aspire to be an IPA, but perhaps it should focus more on being a better version of itself. There's just something a bit off going on (hah), and I suspect that it's the yeast - be it the ones who created some unwanted esters, or their dead friends still in solution, I know not.
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