Unity Brew - Grizzly Paw Brewing (Canada - Alberta - Canmore) 5.5%

Unity Brew - Grizzly Paw Brewing (Canada - Alberta - Canmore) 5.5%

Amber in a glass with gold hints. Nectary yeast aroma with some bitter green hops, quite sweet. A very green hoppy taste like a mild cilantro mixed with celery and pine as well as a sweet yeasty nectar flavour of Belgian beers. Fairly bitter but not very much so for an IPA. Definitely lives up to its billing as a Belgian IPA though it shakes out farther on the IPA than the Belgian side of the spectrum.

Yukon Red - Yukon Brewing (Canada - Yukon - Whitehorse) 5.5%

Yukon Red - Yukon Brewing (Canada - Yukon - Whitehorse) 5.5%

A nice deep amber colour in a glass. A surprisingly hoppy aroma, roasty with a bit of a glaze-like aspect. Also a touch of molasses or toffee in the aroma.

A very appetizing mix of hops bitterness, red fruit esters, roasty sweetness and touches of grain. There is plenty of malt and just a bit of something chocolatey in the dry finish. The hops character is relatively muted but it provides a nice balance some mild spice. The hops character is slightly astringent with a little pine and a some fresh cut grass but none of these stand out very much because of the robust and positively yummy malt flavours.

Artisan IPA - Bowen Island Brewing (Canada - British Columbia - Vancouver) 5.5%

Artisan IPA - Bowen Island Brewing (Canada - British Columbia - Vancouver) 5.5%

A hoppy aroma of grapefruit and pine, a touch metallic. A shade darker than full gold in a glass with a frothy head. A mild IPA with a pine taste followed by malty, toasty sweetness (really quite sweet, though balanced) and a citrus finish. This is a really nice sessionable IPA: mild tasting but still interesting and true to the style as well as being low enough in alcohol that you can have several.

Ice Fog - Yukon Brewing (Canada - Yukon - Whitehorse) 6.0%

Ice Fog - Yukon Brewing (Canada - Yukon - Whitehorse) 6.0%

Full gold in a glass. Pine and citrus loaded hops aroma. A mellow but sticky hops character with resin and citrus (sweet orange mostly). A bit of biscuit rounds out the taste. Ice Fog is more of a summer IPA than some (because of the strong citrus aspect) and as a result would pair well with lighter fare than most IPAs and certainly any dish that contains orange and a bit of spice could go nicely with Ice Fog.

Cascadian Dark - Wild Rose (Canada - Alberta - Calgary) 6.0%

Cascadian Dark - Wild Rose (Canada - Alberta - Calgary) 6.0%

Black, just about opaque in a glass. Nice lacing. Hoppy, spicy, floral, pine hops character also bitter and slightly astringent. A moderate grain flavour. There is a little pineapple to the hops some faint dark malt coffee-ish flavours but very much in the background. The aftertaste is still hop dominated but has a little more coffee, grain and smoke. All in all this is a really nice hops forward dark IPA.