Little Island
Canvas Brewing Co.
- From:
- Canvas Brewing Co.
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 4.3%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.68 | pDev: 5.71%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 21, 2025
- Added:
- Nov 18, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.47/5 rDev -5.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.47/5 rDev -5.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
473 mL can from the LCBO; I don't see a canning date, but this is likely from early 2024. Served slightly chilled.
Pours a foggy pale golden colour, stirring up half an inch of sparse, fizzy head that evaporates within thirty seconds. A thin collar and a few wisps on the surface are all that remain. Lemon candy on the nose, with suggestions of lemon juice and grainy, crackery pale malts.
Not bad - this citrusy lager leans toward sweet lemon, i.e. hard candy-like flavours rather than straight up sour lemon. There is a hint of lemon juice tartness initially, but it is overtaken by the aforementioned hard candy flavour, assisted by grainy malts and steel cut oats. Faint citrus oiliness on the back end, lingering into a mildly lemony-sweet aftertaste. Light in body, with middling carbonation that adds an appropriate amount of spritz to this brew's smooth mouthfeel. I could probably drink a couple of these in a row - maybe not in January, but definitely in the summer.
Canvas' Little Island is so straightforward that it could easily have been reviewed with a couple of sentences, but that's not how I operate. Shandy-adjacent, but not exactly the same thing: Little Island is higher in abv and not as sugary. "Light lemon lager" sounds about right, basically along the same lines as those lime ones that were all the rage 16-20 years ago. Feel old yet?
[Updated July 18 2025]
Another tallboy, this one dated Jun 3 2025, making it very fresh compared to my last sample. I'll concede that this is better than Bud Light Lime, and also that my original assessment was a little harsh (so I'm bumping its grade up a little). This is an unexceptional summer lemon beer, but its use of real malts (and oats) makes for a higher-quality product than the macro equivalents. Something to toss into the cooler before heading out on a summer adventure.
Final Grade: 3.47, a B-
Jan 21, 2025Pours a foggy pale golden colour, stirring up half an inch of sparse, fizzy head that evaporates within thirty seconds. A thin collar and a few wisps on the surface are all that remain. Lemon candy on the nose, with suggestions of lemon juice and grainy, crackery pale malts.
Not bad - this citrusy lager leans toward sweet lemon, i.e. hard candy-like flavours rather than straight up sour lemon. There is a hint of lemon juice tartness initially, but it is overtaken by the aforementioned hard candy flavour, assisted by grainy malts and steel cut oats. Faint citrus oiliness on the back end, lingering into a mildly lemony-sweet aftertaste. Light in body, with middling carbonation that adds an appropriate amount of spritz to this brew's smooth mouthfeel. I could probably drink a couple of these in a row - maybe not in January, but definitely in the summer.
Canvas' Little Island is so straightforward that it could easily have been reviewed with a couple of sentences, but that's not how I operate. Shandy-adjacent, but not exactly the same thing: Little Island is higher in abv and not as sugary. "Light lemon lager" sounds about right, basically along the same lines as those lime ones that were all the rage 16-20 years ago. Feel old yet?
[Updated July 18 2025]
Another tallboy, this one dated Jun 3 2025, making it very fresh compared to my last sample. I'll concede that this is better than Bud Light Lime, and also that my original assessment was a little harsh (so I'm bumping its grade up a little). This is an unexceptional summer lemon beer, but its use of real malts (and oats) makes for a higher-quality product than the macro equivalents. Something to toss into the cooler before heading out on a summer adventure.
Final Grade: 3.47, a B-
Reviewed by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.88/5 rDev +5.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev +5.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4
Billed as a lemon lager. Pours a light gold colour, slightly hazy, rapidly disappearing head. Corny and grainy on the nose. The taste is quite lemony, not super sweet like a shandy, but more tart like lemon juice. I truly enjoyed the beer, but the mouthfeel is very carbonated like a pop
Feb 19 2023
Nov 18, 2022Feb 19 2023
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