Post 'N Bale
Six Corners Brew Works

Single 500 ml can. Pours a slightly hazy pale golden colour with 2-3 fingers puffy white head.
Aroma is malty, bready, but with a bit of musty, earthy note - slightly off - some background fruitiness - ripe apple and peppery yeast.
Taste is of pale yeasty malt, pepper, subdued fruitiness (apple) - hints of clove.
Nicely carbonated with full mouthfeel - quite tasty once got past the one aroma note.

 

A new "brewery" out of Okotoks, Alberta (basically an exurb of Calgary, for the geographically illiterate), though they're currently contracting out the actual "brewing" part of the equation to Saskatchewan.

Beer pours from a 12oz can into my glass a very hazy, unfiltered sunshine gold/yellow, capped by a massive quantity of loose, mousse-y foam that persists dramatically and leaves a tremendous amount of lacing.

Smell is yeasty, doughy, peppery, slightly sour, with lots of citrus and spices: clove, coriander--there's definitely an almost 'witbier-ish' element here, though there's enough earthy, rustic character comes through to make things interesting. Slightly sharp orchard fruits--apple skins in particular, maybe a hint of stone fruit. Taste follows the smell: earthy, doughy, bready, biscuity, grainy, peppery. Again, slightly sour, heavy on the citrus with a decent bitterness especially toward the back end. A hint of apple. Carbonation is moderate-high, and the body leans a bit heavy.

Tasty enough brew, though nothing to make me a rabid fan for life: a lot of parallels to Unibroue's offerings (indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if they're using a near-identical yeast strain).

355ml can, another seemingly quick release from this contract brewer from my home town - one who uses phrases like 'taste embetterment' on their labels - all right by this native son.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, tightly foamy, and kind of bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some webbed soap bubble lace around the glass as things genially recede.

It smells of grainy, doughy pale malt, earthy, somewhat edgy and phenolic yeast, muddled apple and pear fruit notes, sharp white and black pepper spice, and a soft white wine-ish booziness. The taste is more bready, grainy, and semi-sweet pale malt, a still mixed and matched light fleshy fruitiness, flinty yeast, a more subtle table top pepper shaker spiciness, and the same restrained, but willing to break out of it for the right price, vinous booziness from the nose.

The bubbles are quite low-key and unassuming in their plain, hard to pin down frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, the yeast pulling back on the throttle here. It finishes off-dry, the solid pale grainy maltiness sticking around to clean up the mess in the guest room.

An agreeable and fairly tasty version of the style, all the key points hit on with aplomb - yeasty, grainy, spicy, fruity, and just a tad boozy - yup, this one does the trick. Can't wait to see what happens when a brick and mortar Six Corners operation gets up and running along the banks of the mighty Sheep River!