Sherbrooke Shenanigans Kolsch
Sherbrooke Liquor Store

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor Store - this appears to be Alley Kat's Kolsch, with a 'healthy' dose of green food colouring, and thus a different offering (for said reasons) than the Belgian-styled Shamrock offering of years' past, IMHO.

This beer pours a clear, rather bright medium lime green colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and slightly fizzy off-white head, which leaves a bit of weirdly jutted archipelago lace around the glass as things quickly blow off.

It smells of grainy, and somewhat biscuity pale malt, a bit of dry white wine acerbity, indistinct earthy yeast, and a touch of further hard to identify citrusy and leafy hoppiness. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, a muddled pome and citrus orchard fruitiness, further underripe white table grape astringencies, understated earthy yeast, and some down-low weedy, leafy, and faintly floral hop bitters.

The carbonation is rather engaging in its mostly gentle, but at times testy frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, with little impeding that particular metric right about now. It finishes off-dry, but barely, as that breakfast cereal graininess proves itself worthy once again.

For a kitschy, and quasi (who am I kidding?) Irish holiday rendering, of well, any 'style', this comes off as not raping and/or pillaging the base brew in any manner whatsoever. I know, low praise, but once I stopped looking at it in the low light of my self-prescribed and currently under-illuminated basement dungeon, this pretty much just drinks like yer typical New-World Kolsch - ya know, Scona Gold, or the like, pshaw!