Phillips Blue Buck
Formerly Blue Truck, Phillips Pale Ale.
The Blue Buck is a legendary beast known to grant those that see him good fortune and safe travels! A deep amber coloured beer, the Blue Buck has a crisp finish featuring a delicate hop aroma. Certainly seeing the Blue Buck on bottle grants the drinker a great experience! Worth searching for.
The Blue Buck is a legendary beast known to grant those that see him good fortune and safe travels! A deep amber coloured beer, the Blue Buck has a crisp finish featuring a delicate hop aroma. Certainly seeing the Blue Buck on bottle grants the drinker a great experience! Worth searching for.
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169 reviews
Victoria, Canada
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Draught at Tap Beer Bar, Robertson Quay, Singapore. Poured a clear copper colour with a thin broken white head. The aroma is nutty malt, woody, light floral hop. The flavour is moderate bitter light sweet with a dry grainy malt, light spice, light floral hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Bottle.
Golden brown color with white head.. and the foam disappeared quite fast
Aroma is light malty and light pinny
Taste is not too sweet as the aroma leading.
From a metal can. Pour a clear golden amber with a small off white head. Aroma of malt and almond. Flavors of malt, bread and corn. Medium carbonation and some sweetness. Strong in corn flavors. Drinkable, but not particularly pleasant. No thanks.
Most enjoyable beer I've ever had. Highly recommend on tap or in a bottle or can. Excellent. I would choose this beer over many things.
smooth not very complex flavor wise. malt flavor crisp finish.
Pours a clear golden brown on tap with bubbly white head that leaves light lace. Aroma of toasty malts and a hint of nuttiness. Taste follows, a little more toward caramel sweetness. Ok enough.
Cleanly made, not much unique about this one. Again, seems to be heavy on the cara malts.
Resinous hop aroma with some caramel malt too. Amber brown ale with minimal head and clear liquor. On the sweeter side with a bitterness that comes on after the initial sweetness. Medium bodied with a thin texture and abrupt finish.
Very dependable and drinkable beer, restrained and tasty.
Found this beer on Vancouver island (where the brewery is) and loved it!
Great finish easy drinking beer goes down well any day! The brew tour is worth doing also... lots of good ones
Can and on tap - the canned version is a disappointed - amber-gold , small off white head, aromas of caramel, some earthy hop notes and light sweetness - medium body, smooth, soft mouth feel - flavor is malt forward with caramel malts dominating and a nice but understated earthy-woody tone from the hops - finish is long, wet, clean and verging on sweet. - decent drink but I wouldn’t session the canned version. Amber ales are a catch-all category for brewers to run sweet caramel malts forward but this is toned back enough to make it drinkable - maybe 2 or 3
Consumed while on vacation in Edmonton, Alberta. 12-ounce bottle pours clear gold with a spritz of white head and lacing. Aroma: floral, honey. Flavor: the above, plus caramel; it’s a malt-forward brew with almost no balancing bittering hops. Mouthfeel: medium-bodied; lingering sweetness that I found a bit cloying.
Pours clear copper with an off white head. Sweet sugary and carmel aroma. Flavour is not as sweet as aroma leads you to believe. All in all easy to drink and enjoy.
A standard in BC where it is brewed. Blue buck is the go to beer when you dont know what you want but still want something sessionable and pallateable. Somewhat floral, but keeps the true qualities of an ale.
Copper color. Interesting aroma. Sweet and earthy, almost sugary. Taste is caramel malt with some light floral notes.
On holiday in Canada amber coloured body with a white head and a spicy malt hops aroma a spicy malt hops dry bitter sweet taste with a slight bitter finish
can. Poured clear deep amber with creamy beige head. Sugary malty aroma. Medium body, creamy mouthfeel with a modest dry finish. Caramel malt base, toasty and sweet, nutty notes with some peppery hops, slightly tart.
A simple commercial-style British session ale with flavors resembling caramel, apple, spice and some lemony hops. Medium light body and aroma of baked apple and hay. Medium gold look.
bread, hay, barnyard, pale, orange, clear, rocky head, white foam, heavy cloying sweetness, lightly bitter, medium body, oily feel, average carbonation,
Smooth in all ways. Slight hoppy nose with stronger malt touches. Mild taste with malt forward and a bitter finish. Slight floral / resin in the hops.
I feel like "delicate hop aroma" should probably be considered synonymous with "nonexistent hop aroma". I figured as much when I bought this, but I was bored and figured I would try something new (the same state of mind led me to call 911 in what I will dub "the vacuum cleaner incident"). The malt is decent - roasted grain and bread and caramel - but this would be a stellar beer with a hop punch. As it is, I'll dub it "serviceable" - which is the same thought I had about the vacuum cleaner.
473 ml can from the LCBO. Pours a clear copper colour with a small head. Aroma is malt, vanilla. Taste is hops, herbal and malt. Decent beer.
Enjoyed this Amber ale. The flavour appealed to my types of ale and I would certainly buy it again. Nothing overpowering.
This ale poured a Amber colour with a nice, creamy off white head. Scents include cream, vanilla, malt and a little hop. First swig was quite watery with next to no creaminess at all. Flavours of hops and a little ripe fruit about the only thing worth mentioning. Finish is a little hoppy with a slight bitterness lingering with malt.
Pours a clear golden colour with a thin bubbly head. Aroma has notes of fruity esters, earthy, and light caramels. Tasting notes include fruity esters, lightly toasted malts, light bittering, and earthy hops. Enjoyable session ale!
341ml bottle.
Appearance: light copper in colour, low to medium carbonation with an off-white head that disappears very quickly.
Aroma: bready, toasty aroma. No hops on the nose.
Taste: Good maltiness, citrus hop flavour, although subdued.
Mouthfeel: medium body, finishes dry and crisp.
Overall: very enjoyable ale, a definite session beer.
A hazed golden amber ale with a thin mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity caramel malt with light grassy floral hops, light and smooth. In mouth, a nice caramel malt with light nutty notes, light grassy hops, OK. Can from LCBO.
355 ml bottle poured at Lar’s. Pours amber with a white head that dies quicker than the first guy seen in a western. Smells like Coors Light or any other generic beer. The only taste recognizable is apples. Sweet finish. It’s easy to drink but it’s thoroughly average.
341mL capped bottled gifted by McBerko poured into Courage Imperial Stout tulip/snifter. Amber gold color. Its an actual non-hopcentric pale ale. Wow, I can’t remember when I had a beer of this style. Some honey malts, some unfermented wort, low hops. I really want this to be on cask and less carbonated. I am more excited by the semi-novelty more so than the beer.
Pours a clean light-amber colour with a nice frothy-creamy mild-beige head, good retention and lots of lacing all-around. Cereal grain nose with some rye-like notes, apples, hints of caramel and other fruity malts. The taste is more like fruity malts and some hops. Eventually, some grass and light burnt malts are felt in the aromas. Gets a little hazy at last pour. An alright ale, but lacking some balance.
Prach, lemon, apricot, and wheat. Light amber with a thin creamy white head. Taste is apple, hops, wheat.