Take A Hike Double Dry Hopped Ale
Upper Thames Brewing Company
- From:
- Upper Thames Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.76 | pDev: 4.52%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 03, 2025
- Added:
- May 01, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by ConnoisseurHerz from Canada (ON)
3.96/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Definitely the winner from Upper Thames. I visited on 2022-08-06 and tried all 12 of their brews. This stood out, with complex citrus notes and a refreshing aftertaste.
Aug 11, 2022
Reviewed by taxandbeerguy from Canada (ON)
3.73/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
473 ml can served cold into a chalice. LCBO purchase for $3.35 CDN. Canned March 30, 2020.
Appearance - Aggressive pour yields a hazy bright golden brew topped with nearly two fingers of frothy white head. Well above average head retention and a plethora of spidery lace clings to the edges of the glass. Very small sediment particulates are visible in the glass.
Smell - Leafy mostly with some citrusy undercurrents, lemon, lime and possibly mango. Perfumey aromas too, floral. The perfumey stuff is a little weird in this context. Aromatics together are unusual, but the intensity is there.
Taste - Leafy and earthy, medium bitterness, hints of grass and lemon. Intensity is middling. Booze is quite well disguised.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied- trending light rather than heavy, good effervescent carbonation and finish is prickly and off-dry.
Overall - Pretty solid pale ale that has held up well in a can. The perfumey aspects of the nose are the only negative, everything is is tasty well, balanced and looks good. I believe this is my first encounter with this brewery, will look forward to trying more of their stuff if it holds up as well as Take a Hike does.
Jul 26, 2020Appearance - Aggressive pour yields a hazy bright golden brew topped with nearly two fingers of frothy white head. Well above average head retention and a plethora of spidery lace clings to the edges of the glass. Very small sediment particulates are visible in the glass.
Smell - Leafy mostly with some citrusy undercurrents, lemon, lime and possibly mango. Perfumey aromas too, floral. The perfumey stuff is a little weird in this context. Aromatics together are unusual, but the intensity is there.
Taste - Leafy and earthy, medium bitterness, hints of grass and lemon. Intensity is middling. Booze is quite well disguised.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied- trending light rather than heavy, good effervescent carbonation and finish is prickly and off-dry.
Overall - Pretty solid pale ale that has held up well in a can. The perfumey aspects of the nose are the only negative, everything is is tasty well, balanced and looks good. I believe this is my first encounter with this brewery, will look forward to trying more of their stuff if it holds up as well as Take a Hike does.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.72/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
473 mL can from the LCBO; there's a date stamp, but it's too warped to read. Served barely chilled.
Pours hazy and translucent, pale golden-yellow in colour and capped with nearly an inch of soapy, sparkling white head that seeps away within the next five minutes or so. A frothy collar is left encircling a few filmy wisps upon the surface, with a messy curtain of lace deposited in its wake - looks great thus far. The nose is fruity and subtle, including notes of grapefruit, tangerine and lemon, alongside minor hints of stone fruit, papaya, earthy/grassy hops and gritty, grainy pale malts. What's there is fine - just give me more of it, please!
It's a decent pale ale, combining flavours of bready pale malts and gritty grain together with plenty of hop flavour. Fruitier notes of apricot, orange, grapefruit and mango eventually give way to an earthy, grassy, somewhat floral hop bitterness that lasts through the finish and lingers into the aftertaste, which also has hints of papaya. Medium in body, with light carbonation that weakly brushes against the palate; feels quite soft and smooth on the tongue, with reasonably good drinkability.
Final Grade: 3.72, a B grade. Take A Hike DDH Ale is easily the best Upper Thames product I've come across thus far, but it's still a long ways away from presenting any sort of serious competition with my favourite Ontario pale ales. Still, Hike is tasty enough to be worth a fair assessment, so tick it if you can find it - assuming you've found a fresh, dated sample.
Jul 05, 2020Pours hazy and translucent, pale golden-yellow in colour and capped with nearly an inch of soapy, sparkling white head that seeps away within the next five minutes or so. A frothy collar is left encircling a few filmy wisps upon the surface, with a messy curtain of lace deposited in its wake - looks great thus far. The nose is fruity and subtle, including notes of grapefruit, tangerine and lemon, alongside minor hints of stone fruit, papaya, earthy/grassy hops and gritty, grainy pale malts. What's there is fine - just give me more of it, please!
It's a decent pale ale, combining flavours of bready pale malts and gritty grain together with plenty of hop flavour. Fruitier notes of apricot, orange, grapefruit and mango eventually give way to an earthy, grassy, somewhat floral hop bitterness that lasts through the finish and lingers into the aftertaste, which also has hints of papaya. Medium in body, with light carbonation that weakly brushes against the palate; feels quite soft and smooth on the tongue, with reasonably good drinkability.
Final Grade: 3.72, a B grade. Take A Hike DDH Ale is easily the best Upper Thames product I've come across thus far, but it's still a long ways away from presenting any sort of serious competition with my favourite Ontario pale ales. Still, Hike is tasty enough to be worth a fair assessment, so tick it if you can find it - assuming you've found a fresh, dated sample.
Rated by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.4/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.4/5 rDev -9.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Dec 9 2023
May 01, 2019
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