Hoyne Brewing Co. Wolf Vine Wet Hopped Pale Ale – American Pale Ale at 5.3% ABV (C$5.00 at Collective, 473 ml, packaged on 3-Oct-2023, acquired 30-Oct-2023, reviewed 9-Dec-2023)
Appearance: clear pale amber with two fingers of rocky pale amber head, excellent retention and moderate soapy lacing. (5/5) Aroma: weedy grass, caramel, faint hints of citrus and pine. (6/10) Taste: moderate sweet, moderate bitter. (7/10) Palate: medium body, moderate carbonation, medium duration bitter finish. (3/5)
Hopped with Centennial and Cascade, malts are Maris Otter and Crystal. Well, another fresh-hop that completely fails to impress. There’s not a darned thing wrong with this, other than that it feels like something from twenty years ago and is completely uninteresting. It’s pretty, I’ll give it that. I was also initially amused by the indication on the label that one of the ingredients was “wolf spirit” and predisposed to give them credit for it, but this is about as lupine as the poor little coyotes that get suburbanites all worked up when they eat housecats – it takes a bigger dog to impress me. (14/20)
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