Simcoe To The Brimco IPA
Troubled Monk Brewery

A tasty, well constructed seasonal from Troubled Monk. If you like resin, saltine malt and light citrus, this beer is for you. As with most TM limited offerings, get this one quick before its gone!

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - a double dry-hopped IPA, with the Simcoe, Mosaic, and Citra varietals, and some unspecified Cryo tossed in, just for shits and giggles, I presume.

This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mildly bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some decent eroding sea cliff pattern lace around the glass as things quickly move on.

It smells of dank pine resin, uric acid, gritty and grainy cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, a damp minerality, and some leafy, spicy, and weedy green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, a hint of sassy yeastiness, mixed orange, lemon, and lime citrus zest, thankfully faded cat pee essences, and more understated earthy, musty, and piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its insouciant-seeming frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really a cause for concern at this point in the game. It finishes trending dry, the sugar-free fruitiness presiding.

Overall - this is yet another interesting take on the typical (is that even a thing anymore?) American IPA style. Kind of a spicy little offering, and I can't really tell if it's from the yeast or the hops. At any rate, it's good, and worth checking out, if you get the chance.