2.3 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20 gregorymconway (218) - Peterborough, Ontario, CANADA - APR 1, 2015
Can at the Pigs Ear. Never knew them to be the only place you could find a beer in Peterborough, nice. Like the subtle hop character, as thejester has pointed out, it seems under-hopped for the style, but it is a god-damn breath of fresh air to say that about a beer when it seems everything is unbalanced the otherway these days. Only beer Ive had by this brewery that wasnt a drain-pour, and its not too bad at all. Resiny/grainy, sessionable with not too much of an aroma. Low carbonation.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20 TheJester (2218) - Peterborough, Ontario, CANADA - MAR 29, 2015
473 mL can at the Pigs Ear. Looks nice, although the head disappears quickly. The malt is decent, but requires more hops at all points of the boil to be considered an American Amber, which is, I think, what they are going for.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20 matt7215 (2267) - Cambridge, Ontario, CANADA - DEC 31, 2014
473ml can from the brewery brought to me by my bro. thx ryan. nice hazed amber with a tan head. well structured malt body with a lots of hop bitterness. cleaner then the pale but still way to much bitterness with next to nothing when it comes to hop flavour, which for some reason seems to work better in this amber then it did in the pale.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20 blankboy (6667) - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - JUL 24, 2014
[Draught at Bar Hop] Pours a deep copper-gold with a small lasting frothy off-white head and some lacing on the glass. Mild aroma of grain and light hops -- a touch sour as well -- not great. Flavour is grainy along with caramel malt and a light, but long, bitter finish. Finish is slightly harsh. Mediocre at best -- not for me.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20 HogTownHarry (6322) - Toronto (Harbourfront), Ontario, CANADA - JUL 22, 2014
2014-07-17 - on draught at Bar Hop. Lovely copper-amber with a decent diminishing off-white head, really nice lacing. Vaguely resiny aroma, but theres not really much aroma to this at all - dry, gluteny ... Taste - like a four-years-ago decent thin attempt at an APA, but now it just seems generic, underbittered, unnecessarily malty, and more stale grass character than anything all that west coast-y ... light alcohol too. Astringent, average body, weakly carbonated, medium-quick finish, and what bitterness it has turns harsh pretty quickly. Today, you need to do better than this - people actually LIKE hops now, not just beer geeks.
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