Big Chutes Lager
Freehold Brewing Co.
- From:
- Freehold Brewing Co.
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 5.58%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.57 | pDev: 3.08%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 08, 2020
- Added:
- Nov 03, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Hat_Fulla_Beer from Canada (AB)
3.63/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.63/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
473ml can poured into tulip.
Pours a clear, brassy yellow with one finger of white head that leaves thunderhead cloud formation lace as it recedes.
Smells of crispy grain, apple chips, orange pith, soft lemon, faint pine and some leafy, weedy hops.
Tastes of bready pale malt, more mild apple and orange fruitiness and some more leafy, piney hops.
Feels light and fizzy. Light bodied with prickly carbonation. Finishes off-dry.
Verdict: Recommended. A pretty solid lager, easy and pleasant to put away.
Apr 08, 2020Pours a clear, brassy yellow with one finger of white head that leaves thunderhead cloud formation lace as it recedes.
Smells of crispy grain, apple chips, orange pith, soft lemon, faint pine and some leafy, weedy hops.
Tastes of bready pale malt, more mild apple and orange fruitiness and some more leafy, piney hops.
Feels light and fizzy. Light bodied with prickly carbonation. Finishes off-dry.
Verdict: Recommended. A pretty solid lager, easy and pleasant to put away.
Reviewed by WanderingRonin from Canada (AB)
3.47/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.47/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Clear, bubbly and bright yellow with golden highlights to it, pours with two and a half fingers of off-white lightly and foamy head that has a great retention to it and leaves a skim on the surface along with a good amount of filmy patchy lacing.
Mild aroma to it, light hints of oranges + grass with some faintly sweet smelling grainy malt note.
Faint pithy orange flavor forward with some hints of straw and an odd, hard to identify flavor, possibly from the yeast, giving a subtle musty, floral note to it.
Mild sweetness to the light bodied very grainy wheat malt back bone with a highish carbonation to it that finishes crisp and slightly dry with a lightly grassy noble hop bite on the back of the palate that resolves to a faintly sweetness that lingers slightly on the aftertaste.
Nov 19, 2019Mild aroma to it, light hints of oranges + grass with some faintly sweet smelling grainy malt note.
Faint pithy orange flavor forward with some hints of straw and an odd, hard to identify flavor, possibly from the yeast, giving a subtle musty, floral note to it.
Mild sweetness to the light bodied very grainy wheat malt back bone with a highish carbonation to it that finishes crisp and slightly dry with a lightly grassy noble hop bite on the back of the palate that resolves to a faintly sweetness that lingers slightly on the aftertaste.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.46/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.46/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
473ml can, the first release from the latest new Calgarian contract brewer. Oh, and saying that an agricultural product is 'sun-ripened' just sounds douchey, people.
This beer pours a mostly clear, medium golden yellow colour, with three flabby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some decent layered dripping paint swath lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of grainy and crackery pale malt, a bit of apple and generic citrus fruitiness, subtle lager yeast, and some plain earthy, leafy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is biscuity and grainy pale malt, underripe apple skin, a sort of acrid yeastiness, mild black pepper notes, and more edgy leafy, weedy, and wet pine needle verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and sort of smooth, but for that weird astringency lurking about. It finishes trending dry, the malt all crackery and the hops not really letting their foot off of the gas.
Overall - this is not a particularly engaging initial contact, as the proclaimed meeting of the new and old-school hops comes off as disjointed and not exactly pleasant. Methinks a trip back to the ol' drawing board is in order here.
Nov 03, 2017This beer pours a mostly clear, medium golden yellow colour, with three flabby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some decent layered dripping paint swath lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of grainy and crackery pale malt, a bit of apple and generic citrus fruitiness, subtle lager yeast, and some plain earthy, leafy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is biscuity and grainy pale malt, underripe apple skin, a sort of acrid yeastiness, mild black pepper notes, and more edgy leafy, weedy, and wet pine needle verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and sort of smooth, but for that weird astringency lurking about. It finishes trending dry, the malt all crackery and the hops not really letting their foot off of the gas.
Overall - this is not a particularly engaging initial contact, as the proclaimed meeting of the new and old-school hops comes off as disjointed and not exactly pleasant. Methinks a trip back to the ol' drawing board is in order here.
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