Marzyana
Paddock Wood Brewing Co.

Certain this should be last review of this beer - a single that I think I obtained as a cast off from a Christmas advent beer calendar from maybe 2 years ago. Surely they would not make this ever again.... Pours a bubbly golden yellow with bit of haze - sounded like I was pouring out a Diet Coke. Aroma of boozy apple juice, pear, bit of generic citrus. Taste a hot mess - boozy chemical sensation - sweet bubbly apple-pear juice with deep alcoholic burn and a bit of harsh metallic spiciness. Finishes slightly sickly sweet with distinct alcoholic bite. No do not need this ever again.

Another leftover found at the back of the fridge from the 2015 advent calendar...

Appearance: A very clear canary yellow with HUGE fluffy head, I want to say five fingers vs the half finger of liquid - it was that much. Which once it starts to settles does actually leave an incredible lace, and a decent half finger foamy top stays afloat for the duration - almost reminds me of latte frothed milk, it is super fine and takes forever to fully settle.

Aromas: Sweet biscuits and bread. There is a slight earthy wildness, but the toasty malt definitely keeps it in the sweet side of things. Not much else though.

Taste: Very sweet, though there is a slight hoppy bittering that tries to make a game of things, and a peek of pepper and/or spice seem to pop up occasionally as well. The boozy component is subtle, and likes to play hind 'n seek at the end of the sip.

Palate: No shortness of very fine carbonation that's for sure. That carb gives it an overall creamy and buttery full body feel in the mouth, with the fine bubbles providing a nicely active environment on the palate as a whole.

Overall: A good drawer dropper, your "openness" can go from zero to amazing in absolutely no time if you don't watch out. Not sure I paced myself as much as I should have - it was that drinkable. But it still lacked something - that spice in the flavour could use an extra boost.

Pairing: A very well seasoned steak - get that rub out, and don't scrimp on the pepper or garlic. Side it with a twice baked potato and maybe some roasted and seasoned brussel sprouts or grilled broccoli.

 

 

 

A solid offering from Paddock Wood. I like a nice Tripel, and this one had a Saison sort of feel to it, with citrus flavors coming through.
The alcohol comes through on this one. Quite sweet, but quite tasty.

A hazy orange and yellow colour with a thin head. Not much in the way of carbonation. Smells fruity, pear and grapes. Sweet and malty, pleasant, but not very much flavour. The mouth feel is smooth and soft with basically no carbonation. The description on the bottle reads "A soft and fruity belgian tripel." I would say that pretty much sums it up. Not a traditional tripel by any means, not that complex and very easy drinking. Maybe a good way to introduce non-beer drinkers to tripels?

Day 20 of the Craft Beer Advent Calendar.

L: Clear yellow with high amount of carbination that keeps a nice white head at the top that also leaves a nice lacing.

S: Sweet malt with a slight citrus pine smell.

T: Sweet malty with a slight bitterness from the hops, not alot of anytging going on.

F: Full body mouth feel with a high amount of carbination.

O: A pretty good beer, but nothing special.

I was excited to see a Paddock Wood cap coming out of my Craft Advent calendar. Eyebrows raised when I noticed it was a Tripel. From Saskatoon. O.K. It pours with a bit of fizz, yeasty hard candy nose and a hint of pears. The taste is sweet - too sweet for this cowboy. I understand what they were aiming for with this beer, but I'm afraid they missed the mark badly.

 

Pours a hazy amber body with a thin white head, a bit darker than some other tripels I've seen. The scent is limited on the spiciness of most tripels and comes up mainly with an alcohol-aroma, with not much else coming through no matter how hard I try. The taste is very boozy, with slight floral notes coming through as well bringing through some fairly nice character (possibly diacetyl?). I do feel the alcohol is overpowering here though. The feel is fairly smooth, with floral notes outlasting the alcohol. Overall it's pretty good and holds up when everything is put together, and I may even be underrating it as I've only had La Fin du Monde for so long.

355ml bottle, day 20 of the Craft Beer Advent Calendar - again, a bit of a surprise, as I didn't know that Craft Beer Importers represented Paddock Wood around these parts, by which I mean Western Canada. Oh, and the titular reference is to the Polish goddess of grain, much in the vein of her Greek counterpart, Demeter.

This beer pours a mostly clear, pale golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, wanly foamy, and fizzy dirty white head, which leaves some decent rotting Italian grotto lace around the glass as things genially recede.

It smells of sugary and grainy pale and caramel malt, testy Belgian yeast, phenolic plastic, boozed-up apples and pears, and a free-range saccharine essence that has the ability to make me gag on command. The taste is gritty, grainy pale malt, a lagging caramel sweetness, still aggressive yeast, sauced out of their mind pome fruit notes, a twinge of white pepper and clove spice, some isolated candy sugar, and very innocuous earthy hop bitters.

The bubbles are pretty sanguine in their hard to get into frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and not particularly smooth, as that typical Tripel heat really takes a chunk out of the fun here. It finishes off-dry, a lingering varied sweetness combating the still heady booze and some persistent yeast for dibs on calling the shots.

Yeah, I've never really liked this style, but I can call a well-made spade a well-made spade when I see it, and man, this is not that. It's hardly poor, but the choke-worthy rendering of the booze does no one any favours, not to mention the lack of overall yeast/malt/hop balance. Sorry, my Saskatchewan friends, this one just doesn't freaking work.