Gemütlichkeit Roggenbiere
Theoretically Brewing Company

650ml bottle - OK. 'Gemütlichkeit' is a German word meaning general happiness (if you want the whole description, get yer own!). Next, this is a 'Roggenbiere' [sic], so, a German (duh) rye beer, but part of the spelling (biere) indicates French. The whole thing was concocted by local women (you mean 'female'?) brewers, volunteers, etc, etc. Yeah, I'm getting sleepy too.

This beer pours a murky, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some decent spectral webbed lace around the glass as things slowly dissipate.

It smells of (lightly buttered) bready and doughy caramel malt, a lesser rye graininess, subtle earthy yeast, faint nondescript spice, and perhaps a bit of musty floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, mild husky rye notes, a wet cardboard essence that is at least tamer than in previous offerings, dead yeast, maybe a touch of damp black pepper, and more well understated musky and floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite tame in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and sort of smooth, I guess, with just some of that impish yeast not playing well with others here. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt flailing about, while the various yeasty esters solidify their positions.

Overall, this is yet another underwhelming and hard to appreciate brew from this still nascent southern Alberta operation. I may sound like a broken record by now, but, again, maybe spend more time minding the production process, and less worrying about the try-hard branding - that will come later, when people actually want to drink what you make.