Nitinat West Coast IPA
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

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From:
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
American IPA
ABV:
7.7%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
3.96 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Inactive
Rated:
Jul 23, 2015
Added:
Jul 23, 2015
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.96/5  rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
20oz glass at the Edmonton Oliver Square location.

This beer appears clear, bright medium copper amber hue, with a thin cap of wispy, faintly frothy off-white head, which leaves a bit of random paramecia lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.

It smells of piney, leafy bitters, a sharp white grapefruit and underripe orange fruitiness, grainy pale and caramel malt, an uncertain stoney flintiness (which could just be the summer downpour aroma coming through the open window), and a tempered floral booziness. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy caramel malt, edgy citrus rind and astringent pine resin, a bit of indistinct tropical fruit, and a genial floral and herbal alcohol measure.

The carbonation is decently peppy in its well played fizzy and frothy turns, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, the hops not all that interested in extracting their pound of flesh, apparently. It finishes off-dry, just, as the hops keep up their siege, not laying off until last rites.

A pleasantly engaging and very tasty big-ass IPA, one that admittedly stomps all over the boundary between it and its bigger brother. Easy to drink, despite the embiggened ABV, which is always a scary/enthralling proposition, eh?
Jul 23, 2015