Dystopia
Zero Issue Brewing
- From:
- Zero Issue Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian IPA
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.7 | pDev: 4.86%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 19, 2018
- Added:
- Jul 23, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.88/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.88/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
20oz pint at Arcadia - informally representing Cowtown breweries in YEG since 2017.
This beer appears a hazy, bright medium apricot amber colour, with a thin cap of wispy and bubbly off-white head (thanks, I guess), which leaves a bit of streaky arc weld lace around the glass as things slowly abate.
It smells of heady tropical fruit (pineapple, guava, and kiwi), a mild earthy yeastiness, grainy and crackery pale malt, a lesser edgy wheatiness, some indistinct earthy spice, and more leafy, dank, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a soft wheaten graininess, muddled exotic fruit notes, some white pepper and clove spiciness, orange and red grapefruit citrus rind, and more leafy, weedy, and dank pine verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, nothing else to really report here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, hops, yeast, and spice all mingling like the old friends that they are.
Overall, I am well on record here as not being a particularly avid fan of this hybrid style, but once in a while a brewery concocts an agreeable version for my enjoyment. Always nice when it's a brewery in my broader back yard.
Aug 13, 2017This beer appears a hazy, bright medium apricot amber colour, with a thin cap of wispy and bubbly off-white head (thanks, I guess), which leaves a bit of streaky arc weld lace around the glass as things slowly abate.
It smells of heady tropical fruit (pineapple, guava, and kiwi), a mild earthy yeastiness, grainy and crackery pale malt, a lesser edgy wheatiness, some indistinct earthy spice, and more leafy, dank, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a soft wheaten graininess, muddled exotic fruit notes, some white pepper and clove spiciness, orange and red grapefruit citrus rind, and more leafy, weedy, and dank pine verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, nothing else to really report here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, hops, yeast, and spice all mingling like the old friends that they are.
Overall, I am well on record here as not being a particularly avid fan of this hybrid style, but once in a while a brewery concocts an agreeable version for my enjoyment. Always nice when it's a brewery in my broader back yard.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.75/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Picked up a growler of this at The Brewer's Apprentice (Calgary's newest growler bar).
Appearance - Pours a somewhat hazy golden yellow with three fingers of foamy white head.
Smell - Citrus and floral hops, Belgian yeast, clove, coriander, biscuity and grainy malts.
Taste - The hops and yeast are most present, followed along by the flavours of the spices and malts. Mild bitterness and crisp light citrus flavours.
Mouthfeel - Light-to-medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Crisp, dry finish.
Overall - A pretty sessionable Belgian white IPA from Zero Issue. The hops and yeast flavours are well executed. The mouthfeel could use a little tweaking (could use a little more body, in my opinion), but otherwise no complaints. Happy to see more Calgary brewers producing quality beer.
Aug 05, 2017Appearance - Pours a somewhat hazy golden yellow with three fingers of foamy white head.
Smell - Citrus and floral hops, Belgian yeast, clove, coriander, biscuity and grainy malts.
Taste - The hops and yeast are most present, followed along by the flavours of the spices and malts. Mild bitterness and crisp light citrus flavours.
Mouthfeel - Light-to-medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Crisp, dry finish.
Overall - A pretty sessionable Belgian white IPA from Zero Issue. The hops and yeast flavours are well executed. The mouthfeel could use a little tweaking (could use a little more body, in my opinion), but otherwise no complaints. Happy to see more Calgary brewers producing quality beer.
Reviewed by Cwrw from Canada (AB)
3.73/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
ANOTHER Alberta craft brewery, excellent.
Picked this up at Thumbprint Beer Store in Airdrie. Awesome looking can and artwork, really catches the eye on the shelf.
Had this a couple days ago, and I was already about 6 beers in, so my review may be spotty and short, but this was a great IPA.
Pours with a real tight creamy white head, and this is a white IPA, nice colour. Huge floral hops, grapefruit, some lemon peel and dankness in the finish.
A fairly pronounced dry finish, excellent mouthfeel, medium to high body, billowy and just enough carbonation. This went down very easily. I remember it being pretty balanced but definitely on the hoppy side of things.
Can't wait to try whatever else these guys create. Awesome to have yet another craft brewery in Alberta.
Jul 23, 2017Picked this up at Thumbprint Beer Store in Airdrie. Awesome looking can and artwork, really catches the eye on the shelf.
Had this a couple days ago, and I was already about 6 beers in, so my review may be spotty and short, but this was a great IPA.
Pours with a real tight creamy white head, and this is a white IPA, nice colour. Huge floral hops, grapefruit, some lemon peel and dankness in the finish.
A fairly pronounced dry finish, excellent mouthfeel, medium to high body, billowy and just enough carbonation. This went down very easily. I remember it being pretty balanced but definitely on the hoppy side of things.
Can't wait to try whatever else these guys create. Awesome to have yet another craft brewery in Alberta.
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