Flowerdale
Apex Brewing

A little over two years of age on this - not clear hurt in any manner.
Pours a clear ruby to copper colour with scant tawny head and a few floaties.
Fruity malty nose with bready note - honey and caramel, floral hops and a hint of alcohol.
Caramel sweetness on the palate, honey, bread, and a fruity floral note - a touch of yeasty funk over a bit of a boozy backbone.
Smooth medium full mouthfeel - bright carbonation, honeysuckle sweetness at the finish.
Honestly initially was not sure but the journey was quite pleasant.

473ml can - their 4th anniversary celebratory release, named in honour of the abundance of Alberta wildflowers that inhabit the area near the brewery, apparently.

This beer pours a hazy, dark orangish-amber colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent layered sloppy paintstroke pattern lace around the glass as it rather slowly recedes.

It smells of bready and biscuity cereal malt, honeyed crackers, a bit of earthy mustiness, some plain black stone fruity esters, and tame leafy, musky, and gently perfumed floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, clover honey, some mildly metallic alcohol warming, faint plum and fig fruit, and more well-understated earthy, herbal, and dead floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess evolving as things warm up out of the ol' frigo. It finishes quite off-dry, the malt and honey essences jockeying for lingering dominance, forgetting that they both point in the same direction.

Overall - an interesting choice to concoct for an anniversary brew, but I guess sometimes ya gotta just look around, and see what inspires. Nice and warming, with the Alberta malt flavour perhaps eking out a 'win' over the local honey concern, but a worthy time all the same.