Firefighter’s Red Pilsner
Red Truck Beer Company Ltd.

16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. 5.2% ABV, I assume that this is the same thing as what is already listed here.

This beer appears a clear, medium copper amber colour, with one skinny finger of wispy and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a few instances of ocean spume lace around the glass as things quickly progress.

It smells of semi-sweet, grainy and bready caramel malt, plain Pez candies, further red berry fruity notes, and some plain earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a faint biscuity toffee thing, some mixed dark orchard fruitiness, subtle lager yeast, and more understated earthy, leafy, and floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly restrained in its lackadaisical frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a hint of indistinct acridity making some unwelcome waves here. It finishes off-dry, the generic fruity character ruling the lingering day.

Overall - this is an agreeable enough version of the augmented style, with the fruitiness the most egregious delta, but I mean that in a good way. Kind of sweet, but easy to put back, as I belatedly ring in the New Year in my own special way.