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Anxiety Ale
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- 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:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 16, 2018
- Added:
- Nov 18, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
No description / notes.
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Ratings by biboergosum:
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
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, 2015This 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.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Trosevear from Canada (AB)
4.06/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
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, 2016S: 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.
Reviewed by Sathanas from Canada (AB)
3.89/5 rDev +4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
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
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