Hazy Shade of Wintah
Trolley 5 Restaurant & Brewery

1L howler (5% ABV) from Sherbrooke Liquor store - just called 'Hazy Shade', which kind of kills the punny name, good going, guys.

This beer pours a murky, medium apricot orange colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and rather bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent chainsaw teeth pattern lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.

It smells of dank pine resin, gritty and grainy cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus peel, some stoney flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and musky floral green hop bitters. The taste is orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus rind, grainy and crackery pale malt, a further indistinct tropical fruitiness, some damp minerality, and more leafy, weedy, and resinous piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly tame in its milquetoast frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really creating a cause for concern at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the hops gently nudging things in that direction.

Overall - I presume by this offering's actual name that they were going for a NE-style pale ale, and if so, have more or less succeeded. Full of flavour, with very little attendant bitterness, and quite easy to put back, even if the Bangles were more of my sister's joint when we were growing up. And Simon & Garfunkel was more my Mom & Dad's.

 

I happened to park across the street from Trolley 5 on a pass through Calgary. After a couple of samples, I settled on this beautiful, hazy, juicy little number. It pours a golden orange with a puff of white head that hangs around, leaving hieroglyphics of sedimentation as it recedes. The smell is muted citrus, that expands in the mouth. Orange and tangerine prevail for me, with biscuit and malt base providing the backbone. The carbonation provides a nice zest and substantial mouthfeel. The nod to a Bangles remake that will forever be “Less Than Zero” seals the deal for me. Delicious stuff, indeed!