PiK NiK Bandit Illicit Profit Chinook Honey Ale
Federation of Beer
- From:
- Federation of Beer
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.66 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 31, 2017
- Added:
- Jul 31, 2017
- Wants:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.66/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.66/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store. This brew possesses a profoundly overwrought name, doncha think? Well, it does come from the strange mind(s?) at Delancey Direct, the import agent behind this unusual non-Star Trek themed offering, which was 'brewed in Alberta' - specifically at Half Hitch in Cochrane.
This beer pours a mostly clear, medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some attractive melting mountain snow cap lace around the glass as things slowly subside.
It smells of some weird acrid florals up front, grainy and spicy rye malt, green peppercorns, ephemeral clover honey, a testy yeastiness, and further leafy, weedy, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is bready and cereal-forward caramel malt, a lessened edgy rye graininess, dried store-brand honey, mild domestic citrus rind, a consistent earthy yeasty character, and more understated piney, leafy, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its barely-there frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, I suppose, nothing really interfering here, as such. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt, still minor honey, and fruity hops the order of the lingering day.
Overall, this is a more or less well-made rye brew, with a purported honey sidebar that never really kicks it into high gear, as it were. Also, the weirdly proclaimed 'dry hopping that provides fresh/wet hopped, er, something or other' doesn't really pass muster here. At any rate, typical obfuscation aside, I will certainly enjoy the second pint of this offering without thinking so damned hard about it.
Jul 31, 2017This beer pours a mostly clear, medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some attractive melting mountain snow cap lace around the glass as things slowly subside.
It smells of some weird acrid florals up front, grainy and spicy rye malt, green peppercorns, ephemeral clover honey, a testy yeastiness, and further leafy, weedy, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is bready and cereal-forward caramel malt, a lessened edgy rye graininess, dried store-brand honey, mild domestic citrus rind, a consistent earthy yeasty character, and more understated piney, leafy, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its barely-there frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, I suppose, nothing really interfering here, as such. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt, still minor honey, and fruity hops the order of the lingering day.
Overall, this is a more or less well-made rye brew, with a purported honey sidebar that never really kicks it into high gear, as it were. Also, the weirdly proclaimed 'dry hopping that provides fresh/wet hopped, er, something or other' doesn't really pass muster here. At any rate, typical obfuscation aside, I will certainly enjoy the second pint of this offering without thinking so damned hard about it.
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