Anxiety Ale
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.

Anxiety AleAnxiety Ale
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From:
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
 
British Columbia, Canada
Style:
Fruit and Field Beer
ABV:
8%
Score:
86
Avg:
3.74 | pDev: 8.29%
Reviews:
3
Ratings:
12
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Mar 16, 2018
Added:
Nov 18, 2015
Wants:
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Gots:
  1
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Ratings by biboergosum:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.54/5  rDev -5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
341ml bottle, part of a broken-open 2015 Snowcase pack at my local chain liquor store outlet. I presume that the label image is supposed to illustrate some unwanted family members dropping in for the holidays?

This beer pours a clear, medium salmon amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly pink-tinged head, which leaves a bit of hovering fog bank lace around the glass as it gently subsides.

It smells of grainy and bready pale malt, earthy beets (like cold borscht), and a bit of weedy and floral hop bitters. The taste is very beet forward (like that's a normal thing), with some grainy, doughy pale malt, a touch of edgy Belgian yeast, and a mildly soap-like floral acridity. No real sign of the 16-proof booze, for the record.

The carbonation is decently supportive and just a smidge playful in its otherwise coy frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, with a weird creamed veggie thing somehow aiding and abetting. It finishes sweet - malty and beet-ish, in equal measures, with a lingering floral alcohol warmth.

Overall, not too shabby a brew, if you accept the premise of a surprising start to the Christmas season, because why the hell else would you make a beer with beets? I'm reminded of that Denis Leary rant on the same topic - maybe this is what you're supposed to put in the fridge to scare away sponging houseguests, or something to that effect. Ho ho ho.
Nov 20, 2015
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3 by Corson from Canada (AB)

Mar 16, 2018
 
Rated: 3.5 by schopenhauerale from Arizona

Feb 28, 2018
 
Rated: 3.5 by Kmat10 from Canada (AB)

Mar 09, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by MilkLeg from Canada (AB)

Feb 19, 2016
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Reviewed by Trosevear from Canada (AB)

4.06/5  rDev +8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
L: Slightly cloudy orange, with almost a red hue to it, has a slight white head that seems to stay for a little while.

S: Sweet malts with a slight caramel smell to it, also a slight coriander spice and citrus, almost orange and lemon.

T: Heavy on the orange taste with a slight amount coriander spice in there as well, kinda tastes like anxiety :/ hahaha

F: Full body of carbonation with a nice mouth feel.

O: Actually a pretty good beer, idk if I would be able to have more than one of them though. And a great picture on the bottle as well, made me want to drink it more.
Jan 15, 2016
 
Rated: 3.85 by Tivlavrie from Canada (AB)

Dec 12, 2015
 
Rated: 3.92 by BcCraft710 from Canada (BC)

Dec 03, 2015
 
Rated: 3.69 by adhallick from Canada (MB)

Dec 02, 2015
 
Rated: 3.72 by alew_os from Canada (BC)

Dec 02, 2015
 
Rated: 4.18 by ZachT from Canada (BC)

Dec 02, 2015
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Reviewed by Sathanas from Canada (AB)

3.89/5  rDev +4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a beautiful cherry red colour with a big pink head. An amazing tornado of carbonation. A bit of beet, some white pepper/coriander spiciness. Bready yeast and malt characters. Beautiful creamy yet crisp mouthfeel. I would never think this was 8% in a million years. Easily the best beet/beetroot beer I've had. Really appeals to my German side!
Nov 18, 2015
Anxiety Ale from Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
Beer rating: 86 out of 100 with 12 ratings