Alberta Unity Brew 2015
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
- ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.48 | pDev: 10.63%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 09, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 19, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.69/5 rDev +6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev +6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
I have a soft spot in my heart for ESB, since it was one of the first non-lagers I sampled as a young man. I was thrilled to see this was the Unity Brew for this year, and equally pleased to see it was brewed by Alley Kat. It definitely looks the part of an ESB, though the odor is faintly metallic and leafy. Initially, the taste buds get a bit of pucker and shock, but things settle down nicely once all parts of the palate get rinsed. The overall feel is spot on for an ESB, so if you like this style, give it a whirl.
Jan 09, 2016
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.68/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.68/5 rDev +5.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle, the 2015 version of the Alberta Unity Brew, wherein all (almost, anyways) the craft brewers in the province come together to collaborate on a brew, ostensibly for the holiday season. This year - ESB!
This beer pours a clear, bright medium bronzed amber colour, with one skinny finger of weakly puffy, somewhat rocky, but mostly bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of remote and sparse island chain lace around the glass as it swiftly abates.
It smells of bready, kind of meaty caramel malt, edgy yeast, a bit of sweaty socks, muddled pale orchard fruit, and plain leafy, weedy, and lightly floral hops. The taste is bready, grainy pale and caramel malt, apple and pear skins, a twinge of peppery yeast, and a further sedate leafy, earthy, and faintly perfumed floral noble hoppiness.
The bubbles are fairly understated in their jovial and easy-going frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, maybe only that touch of peppery spice threatening the peace here. It finishes off-dry, sure, but with the heady biscuity caramel malt tempered well enough by spice and unassuming hop alike.
Well, this one started off on the wrong foot, but gradually gained its bearings, to bloom into a decently-rendered version of the style - nothing world-shattering, mind you, but agreeable in its old-world earnestness. With that many cooks within reach of the not so metaphorical pot, it's a wonder this comes off as well as it does - or maybe they just all sat around, um, 'sampling', while Alley Kat re-brewed some of their Bitter Truth from a few years back.
Nov 19, 2015This beer pours a clear, bright medium bronzed amber colour, with one skinny finger of weakly puffy, somewhat rocky, but mostly bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a bit of remote and sparse island chain lace around the glass as it swiftly abates.
It smells of bready, kind of meaty caramel malt, edgy yeast, a bit of sweaty socks, muddled pale orchard fruit, and plain leafy, weedy, and lightly floral hops. The taste is bready, grainy pale and caramel malt, apple and pear skins, a twinge of peppery yeast, and a further sedate leafy, earthy, and faintly perfumed floral noble hoppiness.
The bubbles are fairly understated in their jovial and easy-going frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, maybe only that touch of peppery spice threatening the peace here. It finishes off-dry, sure, but with the heady biscuity caramel malt tempered well enough by spice and unassuming hop alike.
Well, this one started off on the wrong foot, but gradually gained its bearings, to bloom into a decently-rendered version of the style - nothing world-shattering, mind you, but agreeable in its old-world earnestness. With that many cooks within reach of the not so metaphorical pot, it's a wonder this comes off as well as it does - or maybe they just all sat around, um, 'sampling', while Alley Kat re-brewed some of their Bitter Truth from a few years back.
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