Deadhead
Vancouver Island Brewing

473ml can, the third in the mixed collaboration pack. Something, something Grateful Dead?

This beer pours a murky, pale golden straw colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random flock of seagulls pattern lace around the glass as it lazily dissipates.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus peel, a further indistinct tropical fruitiness, and some plain leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, some red grapefruit, orange, and lemon citrus zest, a damp minerality, and more placid earthy, musty, and resinous piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-tickling frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, but for a touch of hop astringency making some unwelcome waves at this particular point in the process. It finishes trending dry, the hops still pushing the lingering envelope.

Overall - this comes across as a pleasant enough version of the sub-style, with the sessionability factor never in question. Funny that, then, that you can only get this as a single in a multi-pack. Nobody said that marketing was made up of critical thinkers, amirite?

473ml can poured into tulip.

Pours a hazy bright yellow with two rocky fingers of white head that leaves fluffy clouds of lace as it recedes.

Smells of sliced peaches and oranges, soft grapefruit zest, fresh bread and some pleasantly piney, citrussy hops.

Tastes of orange and grapefruit rind, soft peach flesh, more bready caramel malt and more perfumed resiny hops.

Feels light and springy. Light bodied with fizzy carbonation. Finishes dry.

Verdict: Recommended. A satisfying thirst-quencher with a nice hoppy bite.

Cloudy orange-straw color. Too thick to see carbonation level. Poured a large head that collapsed to medium sized bubbles after a couple of minutes. Left small amount of lacing on the side of the glass.

Light barnyard with a faint fruit smell. Swirling the glass made the barnyard stronger.

Light fruit flavor. Slightly tart. Gains a bit of malt and then a light barnyard kicks in. The aftertaste is mild-medium bitters as the barnyard fades away.

Medium tongue tickling. Turns into a weak foam that quickly turns to larger bubbles that resist swallowing.

The light fruit is promising but the barnyard takes this too far from the style norms.

Collaboration with Land & Sea Brewing Co.

Vancouver Island/Land & Sea 'Deadhead' @ 4.5% , served from a 473 ml can , 4 of 4 Pod Pack
A-pour is a light gold from the can to a hazy light gold in the glass with a small white head leaving a fine spotty lace along the tulip
S-orange juice , hints of wheat
T-orange juice start , juicy , slight bitter grapefruit swallow
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-ok/good beer
prost LampertLand