Orr scores and soars.
If you thought that “the big chute” is a hunting safari for poor spellers, or Orr’s score for the Stanley Cup winner,* you would be incorrect on both counts. The big chute marine railway is actually a rail lift** at lock 44 at Port Severn that transports boats on a inclined plane from Georgian Bay to Severn River and the only lift of its kind still in operation in North America. Let’s see if this brew is as unique and impressive as the engineering marvel it’s named after, or the goal that Orr scored.
Need a lift? The Big Chute Marine Railway at your service.
Not our first Quayle’s, the farm fresh brewer has impressed us before with their Fiddle & Field farm refresher. This Big Chute brew was a 2023 Canadian Brewing Awards gold medalist. Perhaps it will achieve the ultimate accolade of COMDB super suds status? Perhaps.
A hazy burnt orange shade of a brew, with a bright white future of a head on it’s shoulders. It sure smells fine, fruit and hops aiming to please. It has a smooth almost pillowy mouthfeel with lots of fruit, tropical, stone and who knows what else. Big fruit. Hops are present and accounted for, big ones too. It has a fruit hops bitter taste throughout, big taste. And it finishes with big piney bitters and a piney bitters aftertaste. Everything about this beer is big. No shrinking violet this one, it’s a complex craft classic IPA. A busy brew with lots going on as it’s going down.
An award worthy fruit forward IPA lover’s IPA. This big chute gets a big score.
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