Hair Of The Dog
Ol' Beautiful Brewing Co.

16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. An aptly named offering for a windy AF Sunday afternoon, after the night before.

This beer appears a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with one skinny finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat creamy eggshell white head, which leaves some dissolving ice shelf lace around the glass as things slowly recede.

It smells of grainy and bready pale malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, a further indistinct pome fruitiness, and some plain leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is biscuity and grainy pale malt, a lesser caramel sweetness, muted orange and red grapefruit citrus flesh, cold applesauce, a minor white pepper spice, and more understated leafy, herbal, and musty floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-assuring frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a thin airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malty notes struggling to persist alongside the lingering fruity hop essences.

Overall - definitely an ISA, as the malt is thinned out, and the hops fairly edgy for a simple pale. Or something in between, which seems to be the wont of nascent Albertastan breweries of late.