Flight HBC 472

 Toronto’s Great Lakes Brewery is the source of Flight HBC 472, an American Brown Ale. The beer contains 5.8% and comes in 473mL cans with a boarding pass theme. It’s an attractive mahogany ale that pours with a thin disc of creamy head.

HBC 472 has a hearty roasted malt aroma, accented with brown sugar. The flavour runs from slightly sweet to fairly hoppy, and it touches on caramel, molasses, and burnt toast. The beer starts creamily, but builds to a bitter finish.

This isn’t the best brown ale I’ve had, but it has some very good attributes and I’d gladly buy it again. I’d have liked a richer bitterness and a bit more booze, but I definitely enjoyed the roasty toasty quality.

Rating: 7.5 out of 10.