Dandy & Tool Shed Grizzette Collaboration
The Dandy Brewing Company

16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG - they spelled it that way, so that's what I'm going with for now. An Alberta Beer Week collaboration effort.

This beer appears a cloudy, medium apricot yellow colour, with a thin cap of weakly foamy and wispy bone-white head, which leaves some well weathered limestone cliff lace around the glass as things slowly abate.

It smells of acrid and mildly phenolic yeast, grainy, crackery pale malt, a bit of underripe apple and pear fruitiness, twinges of white and black pepper dust, and subtle leafy, weedy, and floral noble hops. The taste is bready, slightly doughy pale malt, a growing light orchard fruitiness, laid back table top pepper mill spice, middling yeast, and an oh so tame hint of acetone astringency.

The carbonation is fairly underwhelming in its plainly rendered frothiness, the body a sturdy middleweight, and generally smooth, the yeast sort of chatting up its version of a hot chick, or something. It finishes off-dry, the grain and still mixed up fruitiness holding the reins.

I know that there's a difference between saisons and grissettes beyond the Belgian/French historical divide, but damned if I can elucidate it right now. So, in that spirit, overall, this is a well rendered version of the former style, from the coming together of two of Cowtown's more promising newcomers.