Friday, May 1, 2015

Beau's Mission Accomplished

As many of my loyal readers may know, I have a tendency to be skeptical about IPA's.  It's not that I don't like IPA, it's just that some breweries have a habit of getting into a hops arms race that ends up overshadowing the actual flavour of the beer.  Fortunately Beau's have managed to keep their hop instincts from going into overdrive, producing a really interesting and flavourful brew.

It pours a nice orange colour, darker than straw coloured but not not the colour of a dark beer. One interesting thing to note about it is the amount of sediment, when you look at it through a glass you can see some dust floating around.  You get a good hop flavour on the nose, not over powering but an interesting almost light and sweet smell.  The flavour is interesting as well, it starts with that sweet and bitter hop combo, sorta fruity but not that intense grapefruit flavour that some IPA's have.  After that hop intro it settles down a lot into a smooth, slightly malty brew.  The malty and bready middle then trails off into a slightly watery and disappointing finish.  This is an IPA that has a lot of potential, I quite like it, although I have had better IPA's.  Beau's did a good job at keeping the hops under control and creating something that doesn't taste like most IPA's.  One thing to note is that if you are a bit skeptical about having a lot of sediment in your beer, you are best to drink it out of the bottle as opposed to pouring it into a glass, but if you are like me and don't mind having extra pulp in your beer then a glass is the way to go for sure.

It's available at their brewery or occasionally at the LCBO.   Unfortuantely it is a seasonal beer, and umm, that season has passed so sorry about that.  I was given a bottle for helping the good folks at brewdonkey proofread the French version of their website, but if you see it, and like interesting IPA's then I highly recommend this beer.

Alc 6.7 % IBU's 65
Rating: 3.75 Steins.  Oh and BTW I am now awarding quarter steins, because I can. 

What you need to know

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Vankleek Hill, ON

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