Canadian/Cascadian Ale
Grain Bin Brewing Company

16oz pint at Beer Revolution. Sort of a catch-all name for an example of this style.

This beer appears a cloudy, dark dishwater brown colour, with one skinny finger of wispy and mildly bubbly beige head, which leaves some splendid frilly lace around the glass as things slowly recede.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, orange and red Texas grapefruit citrus rind, a hint of free-range ashiness, and further leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet caramel malt, a lesser toffee sweetness, Mars Bar nougat, some muddled domestic citrus fleshiness, faint char, and more edgy leafy, earthy, and resinous verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly benign in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess creeping in as the ambient temperature levels off. It finishes well off-dry, the big malt continuing to set the pace amongst the lingering hops.

Overall, this is a pretty tasty brew, as the IPA side doesn't have to contend with a spate of roast/ash/char, which bugs me in your more typical versions of the style. Kind of new feeling, what with the turbidity, but I suppose that's in vogue right now, at least for IPAs.