It's been a long time since I drank anything other than boozy winter warmers, so for this #BeerSaturday, I wanted to diverge from the regular porters and stouts. Well, at least a bit - today's beer is still boozy with its 6.5% ABV. I am presenting you the one and only Canadian Lone Pine - an India Pale Ale beer "brewed with skilled hands and passionate hearts". The latter sounds a bit cheesy if you ask me. ?
A pine in the foreground, pines in the background.
Sawdust City Lone Pine ~ Imported all the way from Gravenhurst, Canada ~ 473 ml - $5.60 ~ 6.5% alc/vol ~ The first canned beer that I am reviewing on Steemit
To spice things up a bit, I also recorded a video of me taking pictures and notes of the beer.
The Lone Pine pours dirty blonde with a big white head, which looks as dense as my beard. It is one of the most beautiful beer foams my eyes have seen, and I literally spent 2 minutes taking pictures of it from different angles.
This one smells fresh, and you can tell straight away that it's pumped with grapefruit and pine (obviously) hops. Flavour-wise, it starts off strong - piney and hoppy - but soon after, it turns into something unrecognizable and bland. It leaves me with a decent and long-lasting grapefruitish aftertaste. I expected more...
The Lone Pine is good but not excellent, which means that it's kind of overpriced for what it is. $5.60 is quite a lot even for a 473 ml can. 3.4 out of 5 stars.
Cheers, and thank you for reading!
Dan the beer man.
Behind the scenes - my Xperia XZ Premium filming the entire photo shoot.