Pony Up
Half Hitch Brewing Company

 

16oz pint at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square during Alberta Beer Week 2017.

This beer appears a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with one skinny finger of weakly puffy, finely foamy, and sort of bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent defrosting back car window lace around the glass as things quickly sink away.

It smells of juicy orange and white grapefruit citrus rind, grainy and crackery pale malt, a minor hard water flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, muddled domestic citrus and a more tropical fruitiness, wet stones after a good rain, and some understated earthy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly aggressive in its swirling and twirling frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, as the hops here seem to be of the polite ilk. It finishes off-dry, the mixed fruitiness more or less carrying the lingering day.

Overall - this is indeed one of the better versions of the artificially constructed 'session ale' style that I have come yet across. That aside, Pony Up is very full of flavour, not thin seeming, and would make for an ideal quaff that one might want to have more than a few of - now what's that called again?