The Cascadian
Undercurrent Brewing
- From:
- Undercurrent Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.64 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 06, 2018
- Added:
- Dec 03, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.64/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.64/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - ya don't see as many of these around any more, what with all the new IPA sub-styles stealing their thunder, and all.
This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with one finger of essentially just bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of stringy and sudsy lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, a faint wispy smokiness, subtle cafe-au-lait, and some plain earthy, musty, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, medium chocolate wafers, day-old coffee grounds, some mixed tropical fruitiness, tame wet ash, and more understated leafy, weedy, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its basic bitch frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a hint of char maybe taking things down a proverbial notch here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and frooty notes kind of edging out the hops in the lingering sphere.
Overall - this is certainly one of the less egregious versions that I've yet to encounter in my ongoing travails. I will venture to say it is the lack of meaty and overwrought smoky essences that typically tamp down the inherent bitterness, that make this offering a whole lot more approachable, and dare I aver, enjoyable.
Dec 06, 2018This beer pours a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with one finger of essentially just bubbly tan head, which leaves a bit of stringy and sudsy lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, a faint wispy smokiness, subtle cafe-au-lait, and some plain earthy, musty, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, medium chocolate wafers, day-old coffee grounds, some mixed tropical fruitiness, tame wet ash, and more understated leafy, weedy, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its basic bitch frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a hint of char maybe taking things down a proverbial notch here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and frooty notes kind of edging out the hops in the lingering sphere.
Overall - this is certainly one of the less egregious versions that I've yet to encounter in my ongoing travails. I will venture to say it is the lack of meaty and overwrought smoky essences that typically tamp down the inherent bitterness, that make this offering a whole lot more approachable, and dare I aver, enjoyable.
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