Monday, 8 June 2020

Life’s a Hazy Beach IPA

It says something about Toronto’s Saulter Street Brewery that it took me a while before I tried one of their beers that didn’t interest me. Bound to happen, I guess, but I was surprised when I cracked a 473mL can of Life’s a Hazy Beach IPA and found that it wasn’t to my taste.

LaHB has solid strength at 7% and it looks nice, with a copper hue and a white head, though it should be noted that the beer isn’t actually all that hazy. For aromatics, coconut and pineapple notes are prominent, and do provide a beachy ambiance. However, where things go south for me is the flavour, which I found to be an unpalatable combo of pineapple and metallic notes. There is some bitterness, primarily at the back end, which salvages things to an extent, but the truth is I just don’t really like this beer.

I should say, I don’t think that the beer is flawed or that it wasn’t brewed with Saulter Street’s usual acumen—rather, I just don’t love the stuff. Another person might well love it to the moon and that’s swell with me—it just doesn’t work for me.

Rating: 6.0 out of 10.

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