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Outcast Brewing

1L howler from the good ol' Sherbrooke Liquor store. A collaboration with (i.e. brewed at) Calgary's still shiny new outpost of the Mill Street Brewery, recently only of Ontari-ari-o! According to those in the know, this is a half pilsner, half wheat malted session ale, so I suppose I should contact - nah, the proof shall be in the pudding.

This beer pours a very, very murky, dark banana yellow colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some stellar webbed hanging curtain lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.

It smells of slightly dank pine resin (the 'answer', M. Trebek, is: you had me at?), pleasantly muddled tropical and domestic citrus fruit, some mixed and thoroughly overlooked (if you try just a little) pale and crackery wheaten malt, a hint of indistinct earthy spice, and more zingy leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a sort of bready wheatiness, subtle earthy yeast, some testy orange, white grapefruit, and blended exotic fruity notes, ethereal blended spice, and more testy weedy, herbal, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its functionally supportive frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, as the punching above its class hop quotient just won't give it up! It finishes trending dry, the hops really outshining any lingering maltiness.

Overall, this is yet another feather in the cap, an entry in the oeuvre, what have you, for this gypsy (I use the term in a very non-pejorative sense) brewer, and his hoppy meanderings, which jive oh so well with my own garish consumer cravings. Yeah - after the first sip of that first sample earlier today, I just knew that the hardest part of this review would be justifying how much I like this shit.