The Grand Subduction
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Black IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 2.76%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 19, 2017
- Added:
- Mar 03, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.63/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.63/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle, the 4th installment in their 'Back Alley Brews' series, which I thought was supposed to be comprised of innovative offerings from their various brewers. In that vein, haven't we seen a CDA on two previous occasions from this outfit, current brewers or not?
This beer pours a fairly solid, near black, dark brown colour, with a handful of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent sudsy linked island chain lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of roasted, and faintly meaty caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus and otherwise tropical fruity notes, a bit of musty yeastiness, some tame free-range ashiness, and more leafy, weedy, and understated piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, wet char, still hard to parse grocery store citrus rind, a persistent earthy yeastiness, and more tame leafy, herbal, and subtly dank piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its quotidian frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the roasted malt and muted citrus hop esters keeping up pretenses.
Overall, this is certainly one of the better names for an instance of this hybrid beer style that I've yet come across, even if the brew backing it is somewhat wanting. A subduction implies something combining with another due to such things as tectonic forces. That may be a bit overwrought for an offering like this, but I can't blame them for trying - I'm actually kind of enjoying this one, after the fact.
Mar 05, 2017This beer pours a fairly solid, near black, dark brown colour, with a handful of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent sudsy linked island chain lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.
It smells of roasted, and faintly meaty caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus and otherwise tropical fruity notes, a bit of musty yeastiness, some tame free-range ashiness, and more leafy, weedy, and understated piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, wet char, still hard to parse grocery store citrus rind, a persistent earthy yeastiness, and more tame leafy, herbal, and subtly dank piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its quotidian frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the roasted malt and muted citrus hop esters keeping up pretenses.
Overall, this is certainly one of the better names for an instance of this hybrid beer style that I've yet come across, even if the brew backing it is somewhat wanting. A subduction implies something combining with another due to such things as tectonic forces. That may be a bit overwrought for an offering like this, but I can't blame them for trying - I'm actually kind of enjoying this one, after the fact.
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