Pursuit Of Hoppiness
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue
- From:
- Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 3.09%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 07, 2013
- Added:
- Jul 24, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.75/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
12oz rock-solid chalice at the downtown Edmonton location, the kind they've been serving the barleywine in since somebody figured out that full pints were a bad idea. Sigh.
This beer appears a hazy, murky medium bronzed amber color, with a half finger of loosely foamy, rather bubbly ecru head, which leaves a nice ceiling of drooping limestone lace around the glass as things fade away.
It smells of big grapefruit and ripe orange rind bitterness, a somewhat muddled caramel/toffee maltiness, some indistinct meaty umami, and further floral, edging into perfume territory, hops. The taste is much bigger and beefier, metaphorically speaking - the caramel malt leaning heavily towards the toffee, and even slightly into the UK treacle zone. A decently restrained citrus and piney hoppiness does well to balance things out, but have their own issues, mainly a lack of clean tartness, while that perfume booziness bristles at its own shackles.
The bubbles are tame, and just duly supportive, the body a sturdy medium weight, and generally quite smooth. It finishes off-dry, the sweetneess persisting much more fervently that any hop aspires to.
An ironic name, as the hops are indeed present in large doses, yet it kind of seems to be a 'pursuit' to bring them to bear - i.e. make them dance and trill on my palate. Too bad, I guess, because I'm not that inclined to work so hard for my beer if I'm already paying for it.
Jul 24, 2013This beer appears a hazy, murky medium bronzed amber color, with a half finger of loosely foamy, rather bubbly ecru head, which leaves a nice ceiling of drooping limestone lace around the glass as things fade away.
It smells of big grapefruit and ripe orange rind bitterness, a somewhat muddled caramel/toffee maltiness, some indistinct meaty umami, and further floral, edging into perfume territory, hops. The taste is much bigger and beefier, metaphorically speaking - the caramel malt leaning heavily towards the toffee, and even slightly into the UK treacle zone. A decently restrained citrus and piney hoppiness does well to balance things out, but have their own issues, mainly a lack of clean tartness, while that perfume booziness bristles at its own shackles.
The bubbles are tame, and just duly supportive, the body a sturdy medium weight, and generally quite smooth. It finishes off-dry, the sweetneess persisting much more fervently that any hop aspires to.
An ironic name, as the hops are indeed present in large doses, yet it kind of seems to be a 'pursuit' to bring them to bear - i.e. make them dance and trill on my palate. Too bad, I guess, because I'm not that inclined to work so hard for my beer if I'm already paying for it.
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