Orkney Bay
Prairie Brewing Company
- From:
- Prairie Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- English Brown Ale
- ABV:
- 3.2%
- Score:
- 80
- Avg:
- 3.74 | pDev: 0%
- Reviews:
- 1
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 29, 2018
- Added:
- Jun 24, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
80
Good
80
Good
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.74/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
355ml can - so named after Orkney, Alberta, home to one of the brewery founders. A Southern English Brown Ale.
This beer pours a clear, dark orange-tinted brown colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat chunky tan head, which leaves some decent spider web pattern lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, some oily nuttiness, faint ashy notes, a weak black stone fruitiness, and some plain earthy, musty, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready cereal malt, gritty bar-top nuts, more indistinct dark fruit, weak wet char, and more well-understated earthy, weedy, and floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite mild in its milquetoast frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, with just a touch of ashiness perhaps diverting things from the ideal here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and nutty essences predominating.
Overall - for a 3.2% (really?) offering, this one comes off fairly well. It's not particularly thin, or wanting in flavour, and obviously lands high on the ol' drinkability scale. I'm sure that this will play nicely into the ongoing development of the designated driver model, eh?
Jun 29, 2018This beer pours a clear, dark orange-tinted brown colour, with three chubby fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat chunky tan head, which leaves some decent spider web pattern lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, some oily nuttiness, faint ashy notes, a weak black stone fruitiness, and some plain earthy, musty, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready cereal malt, gritty bar-top nuts, more indistinct dark fruit, weak wet char, and more well-understated earthy, weedy, and floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite mild in its milquetoast frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, with just a touch of ashiness perhaps diverting things from the ideal here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and nutty essences predominating.
Overall - for a 3.2% (really?) offering, this one comes off fairly well. It's not particularly thin, or wanting in flavour, and obviously lands high on the ol' drinkability scale. I'm sure that this will play nicely into the ongoing development of the designated driver model, eh?
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