Norm-Core
Annex Ale Project
- From:
- Annex Ale Project
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.7%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.85 | pDev: 2.6%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 18, 2019
- Added:
- Oct 21, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.95/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.95/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - a collaboration with the Canada Craft Club, which appears to be a beer subscription service based in Calgary.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent scattered and sudsy lace around the glass as it rather lazily recedes.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a further biscuity toffee sweetness, some muddled domestic citrus fruity notes, a hard water flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, some blood orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus fruitiness, a damp minerality, and more leafy, herbal, and resinous piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, as the hops here are ultimately of the gentlemanly type. It finishes off-dry, the frooty and malty essences exhibiting the most lingering je ne sais quoi.
Overall - I gotta say, this is pretty good, but a little too informed by that NEPA/IPA thing that everybody (especially this brewery) has been producing of late. To be West Coast, ya need some big citrus/pine interplay, without sacrificing (or removing) the acridity or bitterness of either. Just my two cents' worth, and yeah, Imma still drink the rest of this one.
Oct 23, 2018This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent scattered and sudsy lace around the glass as it rather lazily recedes.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a further biscuity toffee sweetness, some muddled domestic citrus fruity notes, a hard water flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, some blood orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus fruitiness, a damp minerality, and more leafy, herbal, and resinous piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, as the hops here are ultimately of the gentlemanly type. It finishes off-dry, the frooty and malty essences exhibiting the most lingering je ne sais quoi.
Overall - I gotta say, this is pretty good, but a little too informed by that NEPA/IPA thing that everybody (especially this brewery) has been producing of late. To be West Coast, ya need some big citrus/pine interplay, without sacrificing (or removing) the acridity or bitterness of either. Just my two cents' worth, and yeah, Imma still drink the rest of this one.
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