Grunt Work
Hard Knox Brewery
- From:
- Hard Knox Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Vienna Lager
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.82 | pDev: 9.69%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 27, 2023
- Added:
- Jun 08, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This beer is an Ale, but drinks like the Lager. Crisp and refreshing.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Cwrw from Canada (AB)
3.69/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Had on tap at the brewery pub. Looked nice, creamy head with a bit of a copper hue. Clean smelling malts with good bready aromas and a sniff of hopping as well.
Taste was pretty solid, perhaps a tad on the thin side, but made for excellent drinkability. Went down nicely outside on a January day, sitting around the campfires they have outside the brewery. Not bad.
Jan 27, 2023Taste was pretty solid, perhaps a tad on the thin side, but made for excellent drinkability. Went down nicely outside on a January day, sitting around the campfires they have outside the brewery. Not bad.
Rated by Beer4Lif from Canada (AB)
4.46/5 rDev +16.8%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.46/5 rDev +16.8%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
A very refreshing beer. Easy drinking, nice and smooth and a light malt flavour. I can see why this is their best seller, easy drinker.
Jan 29, 2019
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.32/5 rDev -13.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.32/5 rDev -13.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. This is called both a Vienna Ale and a Vienna Lager elsewhere online, so I dunno.
This beer appears a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with a thin cap of wispy and weakly bubbly off-white head, which leaves a bit of streaky and filmy lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and grainy caramel malt, bruised apples and pears, a hint of damp smoke, and rather tame earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a bit of phenolic yeastiness, mixed pome fruity notes, and more understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is pretty stagnant in its bland frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really causing any sort of trouble at this point in the game. It finishes off-dry, the malt and apple characters still running the lingering show.
Overall - this comes across as a fairly amateur hour rendition of this venerable old-world style, way too sweet and not biscuity in the least. I am honestly getting bored as I drink this - sort of how I felt about Black Diamond when I was growing up in Okotoks all those years ago.
Jun 08, 2018This beer appears a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with a thin cap of wispy and weakly bubbly off-white head, which leaves a bit of streaky and filmy lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and grainy caramel malt, bruised apples and pears, a hint of damp smoke, and rather tame earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a bit of phenolic yeastiness, mixed pome fruity notes, and more understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is pretty stagnant in its bland frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really causing any sort of trouble at this point in the game. It finishes off-dry, the malt and apple characters still running the lingering show.
Overall - this comes across as a fairly amateur hour rendition of this venerable old-world style, way too sweet and not biscuity in the least. I am honestly getting bored as I drink this - sort of how I felt about Black Diamond when I was growing up in Okotoks all those years ago.
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