T2E-IPA
The Dandy Brewing Company

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - nice to see that Dandy has branched out from their original area code, in more ways than one.

This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and mildly creamy bone-white head, which leaves some decent webbed lace around the glass as it slowly and surely sinks away.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some candied citrus flesh, mild exotic fruity esters, and some earthy, leafy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, an equally indistinct tropical fruitiness, faint yeasty notes, and more leafy, weedy, and grassy verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly low-key in its innocuous frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and mixed frooty essences extending the lingering party.

Overall - while I'm not sure as to the exact sub-genre of IPA to which this offering aspires, I am definitely getting a lot of New England leanings, as such. It's well-flavoured, and easy enough to throw back, given the extra buck-fiddy of ABV. Worth checking out, as now (alluded to previously), you don't have to travel to the T2E area of Cowtown (whassup, Patrick?) to procure it.