Faller
Vancouver Island Brewing
- From:
- Vancouver Island Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.74 | pDev: 10.96%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 30, 2021
- Added:
- Nov 12, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.87/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.87/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Vancouver Is. Brewing 'Faller NW Pale Ale' @ 5.4% , served from a single 473 ml can
A-pour is gold from the can to a slight hazy gold in the glass with a small off-white head leaving a spotty lace along the tulip
S-pine , hints of grapefruit
T-clean & crisp pale ale
MF-mild carbonation , medium body
Ov-ok beer , better than Piper's (English PA)
prost LampertLand
May 30, 2021A-pour is gold from the can to a slight hazy gold in the glass with a small off-white head leaving a spotty lace along the tulip
S-pine , hints of grapefruit
T-clean & crisp pale ale
MF-mild carbonation , medium body
Ov-ok beer , better than Piper's (English PA)
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by bilbobrewer from Oregon
3.87/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.87/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Very decent, serviceable little beer. Too many Canadian "craft beers" still taste like detergenty, mass produced swill...especially lagers and/or pilsners. (Canuck beer nomenclature is pretty effed up, but I digress...)
This pale ale is clean but not characterless; nice, professional brewing execution, and tastes like it has at least SOME hop character in it, which is a really nice surprise (even for an addict hophead who always prefers more.)
Too expensive.....but that's just par for the Cdn course.
Stuck in Canada and needing a sessionable beverage? You could do WAY worse than this.
(Note to biboergosum: See the cute little beaver on the can? Standing in front of the huge tree trunk that's almost chewed through? He's a born tree faller. And FYI, harvesting lumber used to be a 'thing' in BC.
Jul 27, 2020This pale ale is clean but not characterless; nice, professional brewing execution, and tastes like it has at least SOME hop character in it, which is a really nice surprise (even for an addict hophead who always prefers more.)
Too expensive.....but that's just par for the Cdn course.
Stuck in Canada and needing a sessionable beverage? You could do WAY worse than this.
(Note to biboergosum: See the cute little beaver on the can? Standing in front of the huge tree trunk that's almost chewed through? He's a born tree faller. And FYI, harvesting lumber used to be a 'thing' in BC.
Reviewed by altstadt from Canada (BC)
3/5 rDev -19.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -19.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Hazy dark gold color. Very fine floaters, almost didn't see them. Head of medium sized bubbles that quickly dropped back to a patchy skiff. No lacing. Medium flow of a mix of bubble sizes rising from the bottom of the glass.
Light malt scent with some yeast. A bit like fresh bread just pulled from the oven. Swirling the glass kicked up a light barnyard.
Vegetable hop flavor with medium bitters. There is some light toasty malt, like the crust of that fresh bread mentioned earlier. The aftertaste slowly builds a light barnyard to go with the medium bitters.
A little bit of tongue tingling. Quickly builds a foam that has bubbles that are slightly too big to feel creamy.
A perfectly serviceable and average APA in most aspects. Not sure what the point was to not filter and keeping it slightly hazy, like a NEIPA but without the NEIPA flavors. I would have preferred that the barnyard be completely eliminated, but at least it isn't as strong as what all the local brewers had last summer.
Mar 12, 2020Light malt scent with some yeast. A bit like fresh bread just pulled from the oven. Swirling the glass kicked up a light barnyard.
Vegetable hop flavor with medium bitters. There is some light toasty malt, like the crust of that fresh bread mentioned earlier. The aftertaste slowly builds a light barnyard to go with the medium bitters.
A little bit of tongue tingling. Quickly builds a foam that has bubbles that are slightly too big to feel creamy.
A perfectly serviceable and average APA in most aspects. Not sure what the point was to not filter and keeping it slightly hazy, like a NEIPA but without the NEIPA flavors. I would have preferred that the barnyard be completely eliminated, but at least it isn't as strong as what all the local brewers had last summer.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
355ml can - no idea what the name means, and the marketing blurb doesn't help in the least. Oh well, moving on.
This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a decent band of frilly lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, mixed domestic citrus rind, some stoney flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, some orange, white grapefruit, and lemon citrus peel, a damp minerality, and a plain herbal, floral, and resinous piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is pretty average in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of hop astringency maybe not adhering to the societal norms at this point in the game. It finishes trending dry, the malt starting to struggle in the lingering state.
Overall - this comes across as a pleasant enough version of the style, nice and hoppy, without becoming overly bitter. Easy to put back, and worth checking out, especially since I wish that it was more 'Autumner' outside right now (see what I did there?).
Nov 16, 2018This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a decent band of frilly lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, mixed domestic citrus rind, some stoney flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, some orange, white grapefruit, and lemon citrus peel, a damp minerality, and a plain herbal, floral, and resinous piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is pretty average in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of hop astringency maybe not adhering to the societal norms at this point in the game. It finishes trending dry, the malt starting to struggle in the lingering state.
Overall - this comes across as a pleasant enough version of the style, nice and hoppy, without becoming overly bitter. Easy to put back, and worth checking out, especially since I wish that it was more 'Autumner' outside right now (see what I did there?).
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