Juniper Lime Ale
Vancouver Island Brewing

Juniper Lime AleJuniper Lime Ale
Beer Geek Stats
From:
Vancouver Island Brewing
 
British Columbia, Canada
Style:
Fruit and Field Beer
ABV:
7%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
3.85 | pDev: 3.38%
Reviews:
1
Ratings:
3
Status:
Active
Rated:
Dec 04, 2017
Added:
Jul 03, 2017
Wants:
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Gots:
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Recent ratings and reviews.
 
Rated: 4.02 by maclean25 from Canada (BC)

Dec 04, 2017
 
Rated: 3.81 by Erik-P from Canada (BC)

Jul 18, 2017
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.72/5  rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - a 'fresh ale inspired by the Gimlet cocktail'. Pretty heady for this particular brewery, methinks.

This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some weak streaky lace around the glass as it very lazily recedes.

It smells of grainy and gritty pale malt, a weak juniper twig character, fake lime zest, subtly yeasty notes, and very little else. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, lime cordial, some muddled spruce and pine (and juniper, I suppose) tree branch acridity, and further leafy, weedy, and herbal green hop bitters.

The carbonation is average in its palate-pandering frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with little extant here that wants or needs to be an interfering nelly, as such. It finishes off-dry, the verdant and citrusy acridity helping stave off the lingering generic maltiness.

Overall, this is a decent enough flavoured ale, with neither the juniper nor the lime going too far with its guest star influence. That, and the 14-proof wowee sauce contingent is very difficult to discern, at any point in this increasingly affable affair. Yes, very drinkable, especially after a hot and muggy summer day.
Jul 05, 2017
Juniper Lime Ale from Vancouver Island Brewing
Beer rating: 3.85 out of 5 with 3 ratings