Brutally DryPA
Grain Bin Brewing Company

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - always with a new twist on the IPA style, it would seem.

This beer pours a clear, pale golden straw colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some decent arrayed seagull pattern lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.

It smells of gritty and crackery cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, some additional tropical fruitiness, and rather subtle leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and biscuity pale malt, some hard water flintiness, mixed citrus and exotic fruity notes, some pea-like vegetal character, and more tame earthy, musty, and floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of hop acridity maybe not playing so nice with the neighbourhood kids here. It finishes uber-dry (natch), with a lingering veggie essence.

Overall - yeah, this is certainly one of the driest offerings that I have ever come across. It's hardly bitter at all, just...dry, which I can't complain about, since it's the whole point. I've noted it throughout, but it really reminds me of eating underripe green vegetables, but strangely, not in a bad way, because, y'know, beer.