Cannery Wildfire I.P.A.

Brewed by Cannery Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Penticton, Canada

Bottle - Bomber. Pours a very dark amber with a frothy tan head. Aroma of pine. Tastes nutty / malty, strong bodies, and is very hoppy. Grassy finish. A very worthwhile IPA...

650ml brown bottle. Pours deep red-brown. Good creamy, frothy tan head. Good lasting, clinging lace on the glass. Nose of chocolate malt, some light orange notes. Flavour has some nutty malt, caramel, moves quickly to a good bitter finish with lingering grapefruit. Medium body, medium carbonation. Different, have not had any other "dark" IPAs to compare too, but I did find it pretty drinkable, would have liked more out of the aroma though.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown with a vanilla head showing medium retention (i.e. gone before half the glass). softly fruity hop aroma mingles with chocolate and light char. Fruity hop character in the entry is all grapefruit, malt support is chiefly chocolate with a little roast, and the finish is nicely bitter (grapefruit rind). Not as intensely flavoured as either the Phillips or Yeastie Boys dark IPAs I’ve had, but still tasty.

Well this was disapointing. Very little hops on the nose, but what was there is a nice fresh pine. Taste is a little fuller, nice bitterness to it. Not the greatest i’ve every had, but it is definitely drinkanble.

Brown, tan head.Light piney hop nose. Big earthy malt start, medium but lasting hop finish. Malt gives it that feeling you are drinking a stour and an IPA equally. But for an IPA, not well balanced. Tasty all the same.

Another fire fighter beer. Pours deep chestnut with a thin head. Aroma is floral and hoppy but offset by a very grassy smell as well. The flavour is sweet and malty, followed by the hopps, followed by that cheap grassy flavour that seems to be cannery’s trademark. The dry bitter finish is nice, but I feel that this is a very poorly balanced IPA

22oz bomber from Brewery Creek. Nose on opening is a real mixture of hops and almost smoky malts. Pours a cola brown with thick bubbled head that diminishes to a thin top. Lots of earthy malts here in the first taste married with a hop tang that lasts as the malts fade. I got a little chocolate in the finish along with a roasty malt taste backed by a subtle hop bite. This is a good beer. Not sure if I like it more or less than the Black Toque from Phillips...but it’s a worthy competitor.

Just hit the shelves a week or so ago, so I know it’s gonna be fresh. Pours out a colossal light tan head, pretty bubbly but it settles nicely, disaster glass early on, chestnut brown brew. The aroma is pretty nice and very fruity, sweet and thick, sweet oranges, odd grain that I like, light chocolate.. medium roasted malts, weak ruby red grapefruit. The hops hit first but then get overrun by the malt wave. Mild grapefruit, pine.. then chocolate, toasted malts and nuts. Then it quickly turns back to the hops with pine and a much stronger, more bitter unsweetened grapefruit that stays around for a long finish. Lots of soft carbonation. Most of the bitterness is on the finish. The bitterness really comes out after considerable warming and maybe even gets a bit sharp. You can chew out a bit of the chocolate at the very end of the taste. Kind of a mess of flavours but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy it. My third dark IPA - all out of BC. This wasn’t as good as Phillips Black Toque.