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Campground Common
Granville Island Brewery
- From:
- Granville Island Brewery
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- California Common / Steam Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- Needs more ratings
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 3.59%
- Reviews:
- 3
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 10, 2017
- Added:
- Apr 30, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
3.81/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.81/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
The Common/Steam style does not inspire a huge amount of devotion, which I guess is understandable. But this is a solid, straightforward rendition of the style. Gold/amber colour, with a finger or two of head (quickly receding), some haziness (chill haze). Smell and taste is malty, decently crisp, some herbal, perfumey character. Light body, drinkable. Appropriate to the campground theme.
I'm into it.
Jul 10, 2016I'm into it.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.52/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
So, I do love an Anchor Steam when the opportunity presents itself. My experience is that other renditions are pale in comparison. The pattern holds with this brew. It's got the look and most of the feel, but lacks the depth of malt. P.S. I hope the Pemby Fest can overcome the bad PR it's been subjected to. Hopefully this beer can help turn the tides.
Jun 12, 2016Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.6/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.6/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - an offering that was produced with some connection to this year's upcoming Pemberton Music Festival.
This beer pours a glassy, bright medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some splattered bug windshield lace around the glass as it quickly exits the gates.
It smells of grainy and gritty pale malt, further biscuity cereal notes, white and black pepper spice, some muddled light orchard fruitiness, and gentle earthy, leafy, and grassy hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, a twinge of biscuity caramel, strange (but not for this style, apparently) yeasty esters, faint generic citrus fruit flesh, and more unheralded leafy, weedy, and floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is active in that sort of annoying, maybe just get a real job frothy sense, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, nothing really manifesting here to cause any trouble otherwise. It finishes off-dry, the cereal-forward malt hanging tough, while the purported hops are stuck waiting in line for the toilets, or something.
Overall, not a bad rendition of the style, in that my appreciation of it is not an oft practiced one, so I can only go by my other dulled senses. A generally good-tasting brew, which is enough to recommend this as a salve to any music festival woes - after the fact, of course, because, y'know, glass container, and all.
May 01, 2016This beer pours a glassy, bright medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some splattered bug windshield lace around the glass as it quickly exits the gates.
It smells of grainy and gritty pale malt, further biscuity cereal notes, white and black pepper spice, some muddled light orchard fruitiness, and gentle earthy, leafy, and grassy hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, a twinge of biscuity caramel, strange (but not for this style, apparently) yeasty esters, faint generic citrus fruit flesh, and more unheralded leafy, weedy, and floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is active in that sort of annoying, maybe just get a real job frothy sense, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, nothing really manifesting here to cause any trouble otherwise. It finishes off-dry, the cereal-forward malt hanging tough, while the purported hops are stuck waiting in line for the toilets, or something.
Overall, not a bad rendition of the style, in that my appreciation of it is not an oft practiced one, so I can only go by my other dulled senses. A generally good-tasting brew, which is enough to recommend this as a salve to any music festival woes - after the fact, of course, because, y'know, glass container, and all.
Campground Common from Granville Island Brewery
Beer rating:
3.62 out of
5 with
7 ratings
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