Kootenay True Ale
Columbia Brewery
- From:
- Columbia Brewery
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
Ranked #551 - ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 80
Ranked #36,893 - Avg:
- 3.16 | pDev: 24.37%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 18, 2024
- Added:
- Oct 01, 2005
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
80
Good
80
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by Kunka2
4.33/5 rDev +37%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.33/5 rDev +37%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
I just know what I like, I don't have all the fancy terms other raters use. I like this a lot. Great smooth taste, yet bold at same time. Truly good beer.
Dec 18, 2024
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.32/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.32/5 rDev +5.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
So, this review is based completely on nostalgia. This beer is seriously cheap, reminds me of Henry Weinhard's Blue Boar Ale, and it hits the spot on a warm BC day. Perfect for crushing after a day on the water.
Jul 21, 2017
Reviewed by maclean25 from Canada (BC)
2.54/5 rDev -19.6%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
2.54/5 rDev -19.6%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
Sister unexpectedly bought a six pack of cans. I had two. I poured it with little to no head and it had a clear light yellow body. On the aroma I got a faint orchard fruit and sugary-syrupiness. The taste was more organic, like compost-earth and dry corn - but it was only a faint taste. Likewise, it had a light body and the higher than normal carbonation, like Columbia Brewery's more popular Kokanee brand. Overall, pretty weak. Maybe ok if you want the taste of a light beer, but don't want a lager.
Sep 15, 2015
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.43/5 rDev -23.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
2.43/5 rDev -23.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
On a nice lake front patio in Kelowna, escaping the rain on the boardwalk.
This beer pours a clear, pale straw colour, with lots of foamy white head, which leaves some decent webbed lace around the glass as it fades away. It smells of thin white grain, and mild skunky, weedy hops. The taste is sweet ricey grain, and weedy, subtly skunky hops. The carbonation is average, the body light weight, with a kind of slick oiliness, and it finishes with more of the sweet glutinous grain and just below the surface skunk that is becoming very tiring.
There's not much here to recommend this as an actual ale, let alone a 'true' ale.
Jul 08, 2010This beer pours a clear, pale straw colour, with lots of foamy white head, which leaves some decent webbed lace around the glass as it fades away. It smells of thin white grain, and mild skunky, weedy hops. The taste is sweet ricey grain, and weedy, subtly skunky hops. The carbonation is average, the body light weight, with a kind of slick oiliness, and it finishes with more of the sweet glutinous grain and just below the surface skunk that is becoming very tiring.
There's not much here to recommend this as an actual ale, let alone a 'true' ale.
Reviewed by pootz from Canada (ON)
3.1/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.1/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Bottle from the Sparwood liquor store....poured a light golden ale in the glass...1 finger white rocky cap from a hard pour...weak head retention..light lace on glass.
Aroma of sweet malt dextrins but there is a nice piney hop aroma as well. Modest body, light liquid mouth feel. Boiled cara-malt tastes up front then the ample Willamette hops balance it..quick sharp finish with a slight fruity tone and a light, lingering metallic after taste.
This is weird one to classify... is it a cream ale? a golden ale? it has characteristics of both but it is very drinkable...I would classify it as a decent golden session ale from a Pacific NW brewer most think of as a Labatt clone.
Apr 25, 2006Aroma of sweet malt dextrins but there is a nice piney hop aroma as well. Modest body, light liquid mouth feel. Boiled cara-malt tastes up front then the ample Willamette hops balance it..quick sharp finish with a slight fruity tone and a light, lingering metallic after taste.
This is weird one to classify... is it a cream ale? a golden ale? it has characteristics of both but it is very drinkable...I would classify it as a decent golden session ale from a Pacific NW brewer most think of as a Labatt clone.
Reviewed by GClarkage from California
2.64/5 rDev -16.5%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.64/5 rDev -16.5%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
10/01/05- Purchased at a grocery store in Fairmont Hot Springs, BC.
Presentation- 12oz can, poured into a pint glass. Code on the bottom of the can.
Appearance- Pretty nice looking for a macro. Huge pock marked super white head and chunks of lace along the sides.
Smell- Mildly sweet malt, sense of corn, but not sure. No hops at all.
Taste- Semi-sweet, what tastes like a type of corn, malt. Not really any hops detected. Small "can" taste to it.
Mouthfeel- Medium to lower carbonation.
Drinkability- It says true "ale", but I ain't buyin' it. Tastes like a typical macro. Avoid. Nothing to see here.
Oct 01, 2005Presentation- 12oz can, poured into a pint glass. Code on the bottom of the can.
Appearance- Pretty nice looking for a macro. Huge pock marked super white head and chunks of lace along the sides.
Smell- Mildly sweet malt, sense of corn, but not sure. No hops at all.
Taste- Semi-sweet, what tastes like a type of corn, malt. Not really any hops detected. Small "can" taste to it.
Mouthfeel- Medium to lower carbonation.
Drinkability- It says true "ale", but I ain't buyin' it. Tastes like a typical macro. Avoid. Nothing to see here.
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