BC Bitter
Granville Island Brewery
- From:
- Granville Island Brewery
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- English Bitter
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.65 | pDev: 4.38%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 29, 2017
- Added:
- Aug 02, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.49/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle, part of their Small Batch series - and presumably different from their GIBitter from a few years back.
This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and creamy off-white head, which leaves some stratified streaky lace around the glass as it very lazily sinks away.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy and doughy caramel malt, a mild earthy yeastiness, subtle pome fruity notes, and some understated leafy, weedy, and musty floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, dead yeast, some generic apple and muted citrus fruitiness, and more increasingly edgy earthy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is obviously overwrought in its rambunctious and frivolous frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not particularly smooth, as that acrid floral thing takes a more than minor tithe here. It finishes off-dry, the grainy malt and estery florals duking it out, mano a mano.
Overall, this comes across like they tried to amp up the characteristics of a simple English bitter, and thus we get a very uneven effect - a somewhat unpleasant floral astringency, barely contained by the plain as the day is long malt. Oh, and leave the whipped-cream topping thing to Dairy Queen, people.
Aug 14, 2017This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and creamy off-white head, which leaves some stratified streaky lace around the glass as it very lazily sinks away.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy and doughy caramel malt, a mild earthy yeastiness, subtle pome fruity notes, and some understated leafy, weedy, and musty floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, dead yeast, some generic apple and muted citrus fruitiness, and more increasingly edgy earthy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is obviously overwrought in its rambunctious and frivolous frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not particularly smooth, as that acrid floral thing takes a more than minor tithe here. It finishes off-dry, the grainy malt and estery florals duking it out, mano a mano.
Overall, this comes across like they tried to amp up the characteristics of a simple English bitter, and thus we get a very uneven effect - a somewhat unpleasant floral astringency, barely contained by the plain as the day is long malt. Oh, and leave the whipped-cream topping thing to Dairy Queen, people.
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