Solid at 6.7%, Variety Show IPA comes from Toronto’s Rainhard Brewing. It comes in 355mL cans with what appears to be hand-stickered labels. The beer inside is a heartily carbonated golden ale with a thick measure of bright white head.
Variety Show has a juicy aroma
with candy and fruit elements—notes of berry and guava are the central
focus. The flavour is sweet and fruit-filled, with a tropical bent. The
back end is a bit yeasty, a bit bitter, and mostly still sweet.
I
got six cans of Variety Show and I was glad to have them—they had good
strength, robust juiciness, and little bit to like. On the other hand,
by my sixth can (spaced over a couple of weeks), I’m still not convinced
that I could pick this beer out of a lineup of similarly constituted
Ontario IPAs—well made, but not a lot to set this one aside from a glut
of similarly situated, fruit-forward IPAs.
Rating: 7.5 out of 10.
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