Stakes Winner Strawberry Blonde Ale
Fitzsimmons Brewing Co
- From:
- Fitzsimmons Brewing Co
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.34 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 01, 2018
- Added:
- Oct 01, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.34/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
3.34/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
473ml can - a horse racing themed offering, made in conjunction (they don't say how) with the Century Downs racetrack between Airdrie and Calgary. Also, the brewers' great-uncle was a champion jockey. Neat.
This beer pours a hazy, medium apricot yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat fizzy dirty white head, which leaves a few instances of cannonball splash aftermath lace around the glass as it genially subsides.
It smells of bready and doughy cereal malt, a faint generic red berry fruitiness, mild earthy yeast, and some faint leafy, floral, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, still hard to define dark fruity notes, a faded estery yeastiness, some damp minerality, and more ephemeral earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing getting the way of a so-so time at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the malt running the lingering after party.
Overall - this appears to be a competently produced blonde ale, however, the guest ingredient never really materialized to any measurable extent. I likes me some strawberries, and was looking forward to imbibing here, but alas, it was not to be, my horse didn't show.
Oct 01, 2018This beer pours a hazy, medium apricot yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat fizzy dirty white head, which leaves a few instances of cannonball splash aftermath lace around the glass as it genially subsides.
It smells of bready and doughy cereal malt, a faint generic red berry fruitiness, mild earthy yeast, and some faint leafy, floral, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, still hard to define dark fruity notes, a faded estery yeastiness, some damp minerality, and more ephemeral earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing getting the way of a so-so time at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the malt running the lingering after party.
Overall - this appears to be a competently produced blonde ale, however, the guest ingredient never really materialized to any measurable extent. I likes me some strawberries, and was looking forward to imbibing here, but alas, it was not to be, my horse didn't show.
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