Zamboni Beer
Olds College Teaching Brewery

650ml bottle - part of the Student Craft Beer Series, courtesy of one Tobia Walch. A purported 'Canadian equivalent of an American lawnmower beer', which actually makes perfect sense to yours truly.

This beer pours a clear, medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat fizzy eggshell white head, which leaves some random splattered and sudsy lace around the glass as it lazily falls away.

It smells of bready and doughy cereal malt, some mild white grape juice fruitiness, faint Corn Pops, and very, very tame earthy, musty, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, subtle cornbread notes, some apple and grape fruity esters, a hint of benign yeast, and more well understated leafy, weedy, and floral green hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly restrained in its banal frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing extant here that might cause any concern, as if by design. It finishes off-dry, the grainy and fruity essences not straying that far from their starting positions.

Overall - this is certainly an approachable and simply engaging version of the style, with an evenly applied malty character, and an undetectable extra little bit of the ol' boozy-booze - for shits and giggles, one might suppose. And yeah, I sure could use the titular machine to spread some sand on my icy corner lot sidewalks right now.