Once upon a time, I wrote quick notes about beers I had tried. Like this one for Shepard Neame Goldings, I beer I haven’t thought about for one minute in the subsequent twenty years. So it was pleased I was to read that Boak and Bailey decided to turn back the clock this week and blog like it was 2008 again. I am nothing if not a follower.
“Made in the USA” says the can but the given corporate address is by Athletic Brewing Canada of Vancouver, BC. Atlética passed the guzzle test. A beer right out of the fridge should go down prickly when chugged and chill your belly. It did that nicely. Very nicely. It gives off the pleasant aroma of a apricot-lemony sweet iced tea. Taste? Martime Canadian husky brown bready and grassy lemon with a bit of a worty middle with a hint of elementary school glue cut with a black tea and bitter weedy green hopping as well as more of that lingering lemon.
I bought a six-pack of this on sale at a lower budget grocery story for $10 CND. Or $7 USD or $1.17 USD a can. Judged as a craft beer as the label states, this would be a disappointment. A bit of the new microbrewery 2005ish vibe. A bit of the replicant. There is a under cooked pie crust aspect to that mid-point. But it works around that with balancing notes pretty well – as long as you drink it cold.
BAers rank it in the mid-70% range. I’d buy it again… in summer… if I saw the same sale.