RiverFest
Bow River Brewing
- From:
- Bow River Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Kellerbier / Zwickelbier
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.94 | pDev: 5.84%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 10, 2019
- Added:
- Jan 21, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
355ml can - a 'Saxony [sic] German Lager', which according to the marketing blurb, is a cross between a Vienna Lager and an Oktoberfest brew. Anyways.
This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly ecru head, which leaves some decent streaky chain-link pattern lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, a hint of biscuity toffee, baked red apples, a hint of estery lager yeastiness, and very tame earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some mixed bruised pome fruitiness, faint yeasty notes, and more understated leafy, herbal, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its palate-disappointing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess arising once things warm up a tad out of the ol' basement bar fridge. It finishes off-dry, the Alberta malt showing its bold lingering prowess.
Overall - this comes across as a pleasantly rendered, full-flavoured lager. Deftly balanced, and easy to put back, it's definitely helping me avoid a case of this so-called 'Blue Monday' thing that seems to be trending - 'but I'm quite sure that you'll tell me, just how I should feel today'. Yeah.
Jan 21, 2019This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly bubbly ecru head, which leaves some decent streaky chain-link pattern lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, a hint of biscuity toffee, baked red apples, a hint of estery lager yeastiness, and very tame earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some mixed bruised pome fruitiness, faint yeasty notes, and more understated leafy, herbal, and dead floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its palate-disappointing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a nice airy creaminess arising once things warm up a tad out of the ol' basement bar fridge. It finishes off-dry, the Alberta malt showing its bold lingering prowess.
Overall - this comes across as a pleasantly rendered, full-flavoured lager. Deftly balanced, and easy to put back, it's definitely helping me avoid a case of this so-called 'Blue Monday' thing that seems to be trending - 'but I'm quite sure that you'll tell me, just how I should feel today'. Yeah.
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