Bowen Island Brewing Company Irish Cream Alewww.bowenislandbeer.com
Bowen Island Brewing is a British Columbia, Canada brewery located on, you guessed it, Bowen Island. They concentrate on brewing quality beer at lower prices. Generally their beers are nearly at the bottom of the price scale, but are on par with a lot of the other micro breweries at nearly double the price. All of their beers are 100% natural and brewed with no adjuncts or fillers, all are brewed acording to the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516, stating that all beer is to be brewed using only barley, hops, yeast and water. This particular beer is their take on an Irish cream ale,
It has a clear copper colour with a thin white head with very little retention.
It smells of citrus, bitterness, maltiness and nuttiness all in equal parts.
It starts off with the hops coming into play with its bitterness followed by the maltiness and the nuttiness, followed quickly after by the citrus for it to end quite dry with a little of the bitterness coming back into play.
It's not a typical Irish cream ale, it drinks a lot lighter but still packs in a lot of the flavour you would expect. If you see it, I suggest picking it up and giving it a try, it's great bang for your buck.
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