Alexander Keiths, the pride of Canada. AK is a macro brewery based in Nova Scotia, which is on the far east coast of Canada. This brewery's popularity is prominent across most of the continent however, and during my time in Vancouver seeing an Alexander Keith in someones hand was about as rare as STDs on the Jersey Shore.
My first encounter with this beer was when I was still acquiring a taste for it, and mainly drink whiskey. It seemed good
enough for a beer and better than some of the other mainstreamers I'd drunk at the bar. This is going back about 6 odd years, and boy have things changed.
This is jut an incredibly watered down version of a Pale Ale. It's faintly malty, and has just a speck of hoppy bitterness.
The only positive I can see with these beers is they might act as a gateway beer into craft beers. It might just plant a seed in someones mind that there is a world beyond the lager on tap at the bar. We all discovered unique beers through trying some sort of cloudy ale or the like.
While this is a terrible example, if it encourages someone to stray from the beaten track, then it was still worth it.
Unfortunately this beer is a victim of circumstance, after drinking 200 odd beers, most of them micros, the standards have been set pretty high.
3.5/10
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