Red IPA
Six Corners Brew Works

1L howler from Wine & Beyond Southgate in Edmonton, another apparent exclusive there. What is wrong with you, Alberta craft brewers?

This beer pours a mostly clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some layered sudsy cirrus cloud pattern lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.

It smells of grainy and doughy caramel malt, some candied tropical fruitiness, further domestic citrus rind, a minor estery yeast thing, and some understated leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and crackery caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, still kind of sugary muddled exotic fruity notes, plain orange and red grapefruit, and more somewhat testy earthy, leafy, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly low-key in its innocuous frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with very little in the way of party crashers attendent here. It finishes well off-dry, the big malt and lingering fruitiness making it just so.

Overall - this comes across as a well-rendered 'malted up' IPA, one with a pleasantly robust fruity character. No real sign of the extra point or so of the ol' wowee sauce, so I can heartily say that this is worthy of a go and your ducats, no matter the shady delivery mechanisms at work.