Dusty Trail
Hard Knox Brewery
- From:
- Hard Knox Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.95 | pDev: 15.44%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 17, 2019
- Added:
- Sep 17, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by Beer4Lif from Canada (AB)
5/5 rDev +26.6%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +26.6%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Absolute favorite IPA
Jan 29, 2019
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.56/5 rDev -9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev -9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
473ml can - I sort of like how so many of these upstart Albert craft breweries are paying homage to the prairie settlers with their label imagery.
This beer pours a clear, medium golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and somewhat chunky off-white head, which leaves some dense, splattered snow rime lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, some mild orange and generic grapefruit pith, a hard water flintiness, and some rather trim earthy, musty, and resinous piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, a faint muddled citrus fruitiness, some damp minerality, and more well-understated leafy, herbal, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a basic bitch time here. It finishes trending dry, the malt stepping back in the face of the lingering hop 'character'.
Overall - their claim of a 'purposely restrained bitterness' is certainly delivered upon in this offering, so much so that I find it kind of boring, if still well-made. There's just none of the bite that one might be expecting for the style, and I fear what that portends for my future dalliances with IPAs.
Sep 19, 2018This beer pours a clear, medium golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and somewhat chunky off-white head, which leaves some dense, splattered snow rime lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, some mild orange and generic grapefruit pith, a hard water flintiness, and some rather trim earthy, musty, and resinous piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, a faint muddled citrus fruitiness, some damp minerality, and more well-understated leafy, herbal, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a basic bitch time here. It finishes trending dry, the malt stepping back in the face of the lingering hop 'character'.
Overall - their claim of a 'purposely restrained bitterness' is certainly delivered upon in this offering, so much so that I find it kind of boring, if still well-made. There's just none of the bite that one might be expecting for the style, and I fear what that portends for my future dalliances with IPAs.
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