Beer Reviews by CHOPZ

Profile | Card View | Table View

Reviews Per Page  
  • Le Castor Riwaka Pale
    rated 3.6 1 month ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

    Clean, golden colour with a smaller, off-white frothy head, decent stay and leaving spots of foamy lacing. Getting some milky-vinous aromas with notes of raisins, white grapes and a touch of citrus. The grapes continue in the taste with some pink grapefruit notes. The mouthfeel is crisp and the drying is milder in this one. Gets a slight hazed as it pours and passion fruit flavours do come out. An easy Pale Ale with lots of fruitiness, and less grassiness.

  • Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

    Hazy golden-yellow colour with a frothy-soapy white cap, decent stay and foamy spots left on the glass. Lemon zest aromas with orange juice notes, raisins and other fruity hints. The Sauvignon Blanc comes out in the taste, more than the raisins felt in the nose. Still, lots of citrus in the flavours. Juicy mouthfeel with just a nice touch of building dryness,, and tad tart left on the tongue.

  • Helm Sweet Brown Baby Jesus
    rated 3.8 1 month ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

    A very slight haze, brown-amber colour with golden highlights. The head is frothy, light-beige with good retention and thick, creamyish lacing. Chocolate malt aromas with a touch of caramel malt, and some decent grassy hops to conclude. The mouthfeel is crisp with a good drying finish. Toasty malt flavours with a tad caramel and the hops well-blending in the end. A pretty good, hoppier Brown Ale with a touch more alcohol that does the job.

  • Fiddlehead Second Fiddle
    rated 3.6 1 month ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

    A light haze from the tiny, transparent particles floating around. The head is white, frothy with decent stay, and leaving small spots of soapy lacing. Grassy hop aromas with a straw malt base and a touch of caramel, citrus notes. The taste shows a nice balance of grassiness with a blend of citrusy hops, over the maltiness. Some nice mild bitterness and dryness occurs in the end. An easy-drinking Double IPA with nicely balanced grassy hops and a tad citrus.

  • 5e Baron Sous le Soleil de Rio
    rated 3.5 1 month ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

    Clean, light golden colour with a white frothy head, good stay and leaving foamy lacing spots. Fresh lime juices and zest in the aromas. The taste shows the lime juice and peel, with some light sourness and salitness. The wet mouthfeel is on the light body side and a tad tart is left. Quite a refreshing, lighter Gose with beautiful limes.

  • Ruisseau Noir Cryogénie
    rated 3.5 1 month ago

    Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    Mildly hazy with a bunch of unfiltered, transparent particles floating around. A frothy-soapy white cap, decent stay and leaving foamy clouds of lacing. Citrus zest aromas with a touch of wax (older can) and a touch of straw malt base. The taste continues with the same with some light tart left on the tongue. A little dry with lemon peel. A decent, light-drying, citrus zesty Oat Cream IPA.

  • Sir John Jericho, VT - Chapitre 15
    rated 3.6 1 month ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

    Hazy golden-yellow colour with a white cap, decent stay and light lacing spots. Orange juice nose with a touch of piney notes, a tad bubblegum, berries, alcohol and tropical fruits. The mouthfeel has a mild dryness with a tad alcohol, bitterness. The flavours gives the citrus notes, lots of zest from them, and a touch of tropical fruits to blend things.

  • L'Apothicaire Impérial Stout
    rated 3.3 1 month ago

    Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    Second of two Imperial Stout tonight (the other being Beauregard). Pours a dark brown colour with ruby highlights, a big frothy-creamy beige head, good retention and thicker streaks of lacing left. Pretty much roasted malt nose, with maybe a tad nuttiness, banana and coffee. After breathing, alcohol does come out in the aromas, and continues into the flavours. Roasted barley, some grassy hops creating a mild building dryness. Nothing special here, but does the job of an Imperial Stout - and preferred the first one.

  • Beauregard Stout Impérial
    rated 3.8 1 month ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

    First of two 355ml cans of Imperial Stout to start the night. This one pours a black-looking colour with some ruby highlights, a nice frothy light-mocha coloured head, becoming creamy, lasting a decent time and thin, wet lacing left. Aromas of burnt barley with a touch of smokiness, some plums, molasses and hints of coffee. The mouthfeel is smooth, silky, oily with a building dryness, and bitterness eventually coming out. Roasted malt base flavours with a tad anise, molasses and grassiness. Quite a slick, easy-drinking stronger Imperial Stout with enough dry-bitter notes.

  • Beauregard Tiramisu
    rated 3.6 1 month ago

    Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

    355ml can that pours a clean golden colour with a big creamy, whitish head, long lasting and leaving good lacing. Big coffee roasted grain aromas over some mild malty notes and hints of vanilla. The taste shows a little more the sweetness of the malts and lactose. A tad chocolate that lingers. The mouthfeel is on the thicker side with some decent light hops drying things a touch. Some tad bitterness and the coffee is felt as it goes. A pretty good white stout with the coffee-tiramisu notes.