Frau Lisa 2.0
Situation Brewing

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. No indication from the brewpub as to how this differs from the first version, but that's not surprising at all.

This beer appears a clear, medium copper amber colour, with one anemic finger of wispy and faintly bubbly off-white head, which leaves some tree-top pattern lace around the glass as things quickly blow off.

It smells of grainy and crackery cereal malt, a minor hard water flintiness, mild earthy yeast notes, and some plain leafy, herbal, and musty floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, some muddled pome fruitiness, a hint of damp clean smoke, and more understated earthy, weedy, and floral green hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly low-key in its innocuous frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a thin airy creaminess arising as things warm up a smidge around here. It finishes off-dry, the cereal malt and attendant fruity esters lingering like the stars of the show that they surely are.

Overall - this is an agreeable enough iteration of the style, nice and malty and fruity, with a low hop bitterness. Perfect to suggest for any old Teutonic dudes in your life, I would imagine.