Lady Mac
Banded Peak Brewing Co.

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - this is Banded Peak's Pink Boots brewing initiative, a NE-style pale ale.

This beer pours a super-murky, medium apricot yellow colour, with one skinny-ass finger of weakly puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent mountain-top snow line profile lace around the glass as things quickly progress.

It smells of pungent mixed domestic citrus rind, gritty and grainy cereal malt, wet stone paths after a driving rain, a faintly estery yeastiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus peel, a strong damp minerality, fading yeasty notes, and more earthy, grassy, and resinous piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, as the big hops seem to be of the benevolent sort in this particular case. It finishes off-dry, the malt and big frooty essences exhibiting some lingering moxie.

Overall - yup, another solid rendition of this still new-ish American-bred style, produced in the burgeoning Cowtown craft brewing scene. I'm presuming that the name here references Mount Lady MacDonald, which is a good distance away from Banded Peak (the mountain) in K-Country, but I suppose the name is apt all the same.