Tall Dark And Hoppy
Situation Brewing

20oz pint at the brewery near Whyte Ave.

This beer appears a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent pockmarked limestone wall lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some free-range ashiness, muddled domestic citrus rind, and plain earthy, musty, and resinous piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some orange and red grapefruit citrus flesh, wet char, medium cocoa powder, a damp minerality, and more understated herbal, floral, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly benign in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a generic time here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and smoked cocoa essences predominating.

Overall - this is a typically rendered version of the hybrid style, easy enough to drink, but not that memorable, to be honest.