Oaked IPA
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue
- From:
- Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.72 | pDev: 0.81%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 24, 2014
- Added:
- Jun 21, 2012
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.68/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.68/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A 16oz shaker pint, from Brewster's new Brewery Rotation menu. Colour me reservedly excited!
This beer appears a clear, medium golden amber hue, with one finger of tight, filmy, and somewhat creamy ecru head, which leaves some decent honeycomb lace around the glass as it quickly recedes.
It smells of toffee-heavy malt, pine and grapefruit bitterness, and a very subtle dry woodiness. The taste is soft bready malt - toasted a tad - some stunted citrus fruitiness, a moderated pine needle hoppiness, and almost ethereal oak, indeterminate in its bearing. A wee bit of warming grows as the meniscus level drops.
The bubbles are generally well wrought, neither prickly nor missed, the body on the light side of middleweight, and fairly smooth, a thin edginess (those darned hops!) providing the fly in the ointment. It finishes off-dry, the hops providing a nice, crisp reminder of their prominence, as the malt peters out.
Hard to judge this one - normally, oaking an IPA is a dumb idea, the barrel flavours messing egregiously with those crazy hop essences. Here, though, the wood is pretty damned difficult to discern, other than a few aromatic hints, and we're left with the base beer - a hop-forward, or perhaps, malt lacking Yankee IPA. So, it tastes fine, but the brewing intent is a loss, and no big one at that.
Jun 21, 2012This beer appears a clear, medium golden amber hue, with one finger of tight, filmy, and somewhat creamy ecru head, which leaves some decent honeycomb lace around the glass as it quickly recedes.
It smells of toffee-heavy malt, pine and grapefruit bitterness, and a very subtle dry woodiness. The taste is soft bready malt - toasted a tad - some stunted citrus fruitiness, a moderated pine needle hoppiness, and almost ethereal oak, indeterminate in its bearing. A wee bit of warming grows as the meniscus level drops.
The bubbles are generally well wrought, neither prickly nor missed, the body on the light side of middleweight, and fairly smooth, a thin edginess (those darned hops!) providing the fly in the ointment. It finishes off-dry, the hops providing a nice, crisp reminder of their prominence, as the malt peters out.
Hard to judge this one - normally, oaking an IPA is a dumb idea, the barrel flavours messing egregiously with those crazy hop essences. Here, though, the wood is pretty damned difficult to discern, other than a few aromatic hints, and we're left with the base beer - a hop-forward, or perhaps, malt lacking Yankee IPA. So, it tastes fine, but the brewing intent is a loss, and no big one at that.
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