Misthorn
Vancouver Island Brewing
- From:
- Vancouver Island Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.9%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.35 | pDev: 17.01%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 07, 2020
- Added:
- Oct 22, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Ghrymm from Canada (BC)
3.34/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.34/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Poured from a 473ml can.
Leaddog says it all this IPA misses the mark on nose feel and taste. This needs lots of work.
I could not finish this one dumped in the garden.
Nov 07, 2020Leaddog says it all this IPA misses the mark on nose feel and taste. This needs lots of work.
I could not finish this one dumped in the garden.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.22/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.22/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Appearance - Pours a rusty copper with three fingers of frothy off white head.
Smell - earthy, leafy, weedy, and hint of both piney and floral hops, hint of pine resin, hint of grapefruit peel, sweet orange pith, bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy, leafy, and hint of both piney and floral hops upfront. The pine resin, grapefruit peel get lost in translation from the sweet orange pith which is off-putting. The bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky and sweet.
Overall - An IPA that misses the mark on all fronts. The taste and mouthfeel are off-putting by the orange sweetness. I was hoping for more of a traditional American IPA based on the appearance. This one definitely needs to go back to the drawing board.
Oct 12, 2020Smell - earthy, leafy, weedy, and hint of both piney and floral hops, hint of pine resin, hint of grapefruit peel, sweet orange pith, bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy, leafy, and hint of both piney and floral hops upfront. The pine resin, grapefruit peel get lost in translation from the sweet orange pith which is off-putting. The bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes sticky and sweet.
Overall - An IPA that misses the mark on all fronts. The taste and mouthfeel are off-putting by the orange sweetness. I was hoping for more of a traditional American IPA based on the appearance. This one definitely needs to go back to the drawing board.
Reviewed by altstadt from Canada (BC)
2.34/5 rDev -30.1%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
2.34/5 rDev -30.1%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
Cloudy brown-orange color with lots of floaters; it looks a bit like a thin miso soup. Very little head that quickly turned into a patchy skiff. Looks like a lot of different sized bubbles rising, but hard to see clearly with all the murk.
Smells of sweet, cooked orange. It's not quite, but close to, a burnt orange. Something is a bit spicy, but can't tell what. Swirling the glass kicked up a bit of barnyard and increased the sweetness.
Tastes of a bitter, cooked green vegetable (spinach, kale, and stale celery?) and tea leaves. Some burned malt. There is just a hint of cooked orange. There is supposed to be some anise and some cinnamon in here, but it doesn't come through.
Slowly foams up into medium sized bubbles that don't have any particular feel. A bit astringent.
The brewery has changed the name from "Winter IPA" to "Aurora IPA", but it is fundamentally the same beer. The near-burnt orange scent is the highlight, and nothing works past that point. Looks like miso soup and tastes like a tea made with weeds thrown in. I didn't like this when it had the original name, and I don't care for it now. This has diverged too far from an AIPA and not in the direction of any style more appropriate.
Mar 12, 2020Smells of sweet, cooked orange. It's not quite, but close to, a burnt orange. Something is a bit spicy, but can't tell what. Swirling the glass kicked up a bit of barnyard and increased the sweetness.
Tastes of a bitter, cooked green vegetable (spinach, kale, and stale celery?) and tea leaves. Some burned malt. There is just a hint of cooked orange. There is supposed to be some anise and some cinnamon in here, but it doesn't come through.
Slowly foams up into medium sized bubbles that don't have any particular feel. A bit astringent.
The brewery has changed the name from "Winter IPA" to "Aurora IPA", but it is fundamentally the same beer. The near-burnt orange scent is the highlight, and nothing works past that point. Looks like miso soup and tastes like a tea made with weeds thrown in. I didn't like this when it had the original name, and I don't care for it now. This has diverged too far from an AIPA and not in the direction of any style more appropriate.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.62/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev +8.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Vancouver Is. Brewing 'Misthorn Aurora IPA' @ 6.9% , served from a 473 ml can
A-pour is gold from the can to a dark amber in the glass with a small beige head leaving a streaky lace along the Spiegelau
S-cinnamon , orange peel
T-sweet IPA's , I'm not sure I like
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-weak , pumpkin spices for an IPA ,
prost LampertLand
Oct 20, 2019A-pour is gold from the can to a dark amber in the glass with a small beige head leaving a streaky lace along the Spiegelau
S-cinnamon , orange peel
T-sweet IPA's , I'm not sure I like
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-weak , pumpkin spices for an IPA ,
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.32/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.32/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
473ml can - named after Misthorn Glacier on Vancouver Island, this is made with rye, orange peel, and cinnamon. Ok.
This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent wafting smoke signal pattern lace around the glass as it slowly dissipates.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, sugary orange zest, a faint earthy spiciness, and some plain leafy, herbal, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is cinnamon sticks, gritty and grainy cereal malt, those candied orange 'slices' you get at discount stores, a hint of spicy rye, and more understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of generic spice acridity maybe not toeing the proverbial company line here. It finishes off-dry, the citrus and malt still sparring with a lingering metallic spicy character.
Overall - yeah, this is yet another attempt to shoehorn essences from disparate styles into my precious IPA. Orange? Fine. Different malt? Sure. Cinnamon? WTF? Ya know, even during Yuletide, regular ol' (insert modifier) IPAs taste just damned fine - providing they've been properly made, of course.
Oct 26, 2018This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent wafting smoke signal pattern lace around the glass as it slowly dissipates.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, sugary orange zest, a faint earthy spiciness, and some plain leafy, herbal, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is cinnamon sticks, gritty and grainy cereal malt, those candied orange 'slices' you get at discount stores, a hint of spicy rye, and more understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of generic spice acridity maybe not toeing the proverbial company line here. It finishes off-dry, the citrus and malt still sparring with a lingering metallic spicy character.
Overall - yeah, this is yet another attempt to shoehorn essences from disparate styles into my precious IPA. Orange? Fine. Different malt? Sure. Cinnamon? WTF? Ya know, even during Yuletide, regular ol' (insert modifier) IPAs taste just damned fine - providing they've been properly made, of course.
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