Fashionably Late
Troubled Monk Brewery

 

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. A session ale, with a great name, one which exhibits a touch of self-deprecation.

This beer appears a clear, medium golden yellow colour, with a thin cap of wispy and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random streaky lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some muddled tropical fruitiness, further domestic citrus rind, a damp minerality, and some plain earthy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, orange and white grapefruit citrus pith, some wet stoniness, and more understated herbal, leafy, and grassy verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly benign in its low-key frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, with just a hint of hop acridity marring the surface sheen at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the hops still holding the majority of the lingering cards.

Overall - this comes across as a pleasantly rendered version of this sub-style of 'IPA', with barely a drop in the intensity that one might expect from a hoppy pale ale, given the conservative ABV quotient. Easy to quaff on yet another sweltering summer day.