Saison Dupump - Great Lakes Brewery

Mood: it's a Tuesday and I'm thirsty... Let me reach for some wat- BEER

Where to Buy: LCBO

Price: $

Beer Type: Belgian Ale (saison)

Ingredients: water, malted barley, hops, yeast, pumpkin and spices

Country: Toronto, Ontario 

%: 5.2

ml: 650ml

Appearance: Light coloured beer

Smell: light beer with a hint of spice

Taste: Mild and not bitter (as I was expecting) there is a mild pumpkin spice flavour, and I like that. Everything was very balanced and mild and nothing overpowering. 

Mouthfeel: clean and crisp, foamed up a bit at the end

Finish: nothing really, just clean. At one point I thought I was drinking water with a slight beer, pumpkin spice flavour.

Overall: very impressed for a Toronto beer, lived up to the pumpkin spice I was looking for but lacks richness. I would probably say this is my favourite pumpkin fall beer to date. But will review close to same time I drink st Ambrose pumpkin beer as well. 

7/10

Jackline Rhubarb Grisette - Lighthouse Brewing Co - $5.99

Mood: tipsy after Vancouver beer fest training (had 2 beers before this)

Where to Buy: BC liquor

Price: $5.99

Beer Type: table saison, grisette

Ingredients: wheat, oats, malt, rhubarb

Country: Canada (Victoria, BC)

%: 5.5%

ml: 650ml

Appearance: cloudy yellow, like wheat beer

Smell: sour, alcoholy, like he sour I had last week.

Taste: a mix between wheat beer and the sour I had last week, no rhubarb whatsoever (unless I'm just used to strawberries and rhubarb...)

Mouthfeel: very sharp. Like tonic water, not creamy. Bubbly. 

Finished: like a vodka beer aftertaste. 

Overall: I want to like it because of the ingredients, but honestly there is nothing I like about this beer. It is literally a mix between a sour beer and wheat beer, and I don't like sour beer at all. 

2/10