English Ale
Annex Ale Project
- From:
- Annex Ale Project
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- English Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.56 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 14, 2017
- Added:
- Oct 14, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.56/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
1L howler from Wine & Beyond Southgate in Edmonton. I asked about the relation of this one to the Aussie Sparkling Ale, and got a hearty shrug - so much for knowledge about why you have exclusivity, eh?
This beer pours a clear, dark red-brick amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat fizzy beige head, which leaves some decent sudsy soapscum lace around the glass as things quickly sink away.
It smells of bready and crackery caramel malt, a bit of estery yeastiness, subtle earthy smokey notes, ephemeral pome fruit rind, and some understated leafy, weedy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, wispy campfire ash, a muddled apple and generic citrus fruitiness, faded earthy yeast, and more bland leafy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite muted in its plain-Sarah (Bart is sooo bad!) frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing existing here that might really cause any fuss, per se. It finishes off-dry, in a pithy, sugary sweet, and bland manner.
Overall - this is obviously not an EPA, but I had to make ill-informed assumptions beforehand. At any rate, it is essentially an English Brown Ale, and a middling one at that. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing all that right, by the same sword. There are much better versions out there, even from our own province now.
Oct 14, 2017This beer pours a clear, dark red-brick amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat fizzy beige head, which leaves some decent sudsy soapscum lace around the glass as things quickly sink away.
It smells of bready and crackery caramel malt, a bit of estery yeastiness, subtle earthy smokey notes, ephemeral pome fruit rind, and some understated leafy, weedy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, wispy campfire ash, a muddled apple and generic citrus fruitiness, faded earthy yeast, and more bland leafy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite muted in its plain-Sarah (Bart is sooo bad!) frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing existing here that might really cause any fuss, per se. It finishes off-dry, in a pithy, sugary sweet, and bland manner.
Overall - this is obviously not an EPA, but I had to make ill-informed assumptions beforehand. At any rate, it is essentially an English Brown Ale, and a middling one at that. Nothing wrong with it, but nothing all that right, by the same sword. There are much better versions out there, even from our own province now.
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