Upper Canada Pale Ale

Brewed by Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. (Sapporo)
Style: American Pale Ale
Guelph, Canada

Draught at C’est What, shared with HogTownHarry & tupalev. Pours a clear bubbly golden-orange with an average size white head. Mediocre aroma of grain, fruit, hops and some malt. Flavour, oh that’s no Pale Ale, that’s more of a generic sweet crappy Lager with a slightly metallic aftertaste. Bleargh. These guys are capable of so much more than this. Pitiful.

Draught at C’est What with hogtown harry and blankboy. Light orange, small bubbly head. Hardly any aroma, cold or as it warmed, maybe some grainy notes, but that’s it - certainly no hops. Citrus malt taste, syrupy yet thin. Lingering grain and corn. There is absolutely nothing to like in this beer - what a poor excuse from a formerly decent brewer. I can’t wait to try the red!

Draught. At C’est What, shared with blankboy and tupalev. Poured pale clear amber with an average fairly lasting head. Sugary aroma of candy malt and metallic grainy hops. Taste is harshly sweet, bitter without any real hop character, really weak-ass with some sugary fake fruit on warming. Flat, watery, harsh and syrupy - a nasty excuse for a pale ale, even for mainstream Canada.

Copper colour pour, the apperance is stunning, but taste is where it matters and ths one was overly sweet for my liking, and too light on the bitterness, not bad though.

Highly carbonated ale, gold in its presence with fine creamy head on top. Rather sweet , light malt with thin hop character . Subdued bitterness , lacking refreshing qualities . Medium to light body . Bland.

Golden fizzy pour with very quickly disipating short white head. Nose is very unassuming on hops. In fact it seemed very lightly hopped. A little grassy. Too much carbonation. Reasonably dry finish. Poor example. It’s an American Pale Ale in the sense that Alexander Keith’s is an IPA.

341ml brown bottle. Golden, decent looking white head. Light hops in the aroma, somewhere between floral and citrusy. Passible malt flavour with lightly bitter finish.

Clear yellow-amber w/ frothy off-white foam. Sweet, malty aroma w/ faint notes of citrusy hops. Light, slightly grainy feel. Malty flavour w/ a light, grassy finish.