Label: Sap Suker Maple Porter
Type: Porter
ABV[%]: 5.5
Packaging: 750 ml
Brewery: Fernie Brewing Company
Smell: Maple! Wood
Head: Beautifully thick with a wonderful lacing
Color: almost black but not cloudy
Carbonation: medium
Kick: medium
Rating: 7/10
Notes:
This is a sweet molassesy beer with a maple flavour. It is worth getting just for the head itself. It leaves a slightly silky aftertaste and the initial flavour is slightly bitter. You can taste and almost imagine carmelized sugars when they were brewing this beer.
I only gave it a 7 but only because I'm not a huge porter fan. Having said that, the taste is fresh and it pours into the glass wonderfully. It also has a bit of hoppiness to it but in the end the barley flavours mixed in with the maple are teh tones that hit you. Nice.
The brewery is based out of -you guessed it- Fernie, who like many other breweries in BC are cashing in on the craft brewery explosion on the west coast. It won't be on my must-drink list but I am pleased to see a competitive porter from the interior. Besides Blackheart, there aren't many stouts brewed well from in the mountain ranges of BC... Or are there?
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Saturday, May 7, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Calico Amber Ale
Label: Calico Amber Ale
Type: Amber Ale American
ABV[%]: ?
Packaging: 650 ml bottle
Brewery: Ballast Point Brewing Co. San Diego, CA
Smell: Hoppy with a citrus zing
Head: full with a thick lacing
Color: amber brown
Carbonation: medium
Kick: meh
Rating: 8.5/10
Notes:
What a citrusy and hoppy zing in the aftertaste! It is almost as if there wasn't as much flavour as there is aftertaste. It really wipes off the tongue... almost minty. It has a beautiful color to it, nice and clear. You can taste a bit of heaviness in the malt, but it isn't a heavy brew. These go down pretty fast! It has a mild but distinct spiciness to it that makes it a nice drink to chill out to.
This is the kind of beer that you know would taste much, much better out of a keg, but it ain't too shabby from the bottle. I had it slightly cooler than room temperature, which I think is ideal since you'd probably miss some of the spiciness if it was too cold.
It has, however, perhaps the second ugliest label I have seen on a beer bottle. The font and ugly looking fish on the label just look cheap. For a brewery so creative in their beer, they spared little imagination on the label. But I'm gonna look out for this stuff in SoCal, baby.
Apparently it was judged one of the best beers in the world, winning the world cup. Brew Hah!
Type: Amber Ale American
ABV[%]: ?
Packaging: 650 ml bottle
Brewery: Ballast Point Brewing Co. San Diego, CA
Smell: Hoppy with a citrus zing
Head: full with a thick lacing
Color: amber brown
Carbonation: medium
Kick: meh
Rating: 8.5/10
Notes:
What a citrusy and hoppy zing in the aftertaste! It is almost as if there wasn't as much flavour as there is aftertaste. It really wipes off the tongue... almost minty. It has a beautiful color to it, nice and clear. You can taste a bit of heaviness in the malt, but it isn't a heavy brew. These go down pretty fast! It has a mild but distinct spiciness to it that makes it a nice drink to chill out to.
This is the kind of beer that you know would taste much, much better out of a keg, but it ain't too shabby from the bottle. I had it slightly cooler than room temperature, which I think is ideal since you'd probably miss some of the spiciness if it was too cold.
It has, however, perhaps the second ugliest label I have seen on a beer bottle. The font and ugly looking fish on the label just look cheap. For a brewery so creative in their beer, they spared little imagination on the label. But I'm gonna look out for this stuff in SoCal, baby.
Apparently it was judged one of the best beers in the world, winning the world cup. Brew Hah!
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