Cryo-Currency
Annex Ale Project

 

 

 

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - this brewery always seems to have cool-sounding names for their products, or maybe just trendy, I dunno. At any rate, this is an East Coast-style IPA.

This beer pours a murky (milkshake, indeed), medium apricot amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, rather loosely foamy, and mostly just bubbly off-white head, which leaves some craggy mountaintop pattern lace around the glass as it quickly seeps away.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some orange, white grapefruit, and lemon citrus rind, a stoney flintiness, and rather pungent leafy, weedy, and resinous piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a lesser toffee sweetness, mixed domestic citrus and exotic frooty notes, some damp minerality, and more zingy herbal, leafy, and sticky pine verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly low-key in its kind of ineffectual frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, as the fruity side of the hops overpowers the acrid nature at this particular juncture. It finishes a tad on the sweet side, the malt and blended fruitiness making hay while the sun shines.

Overall - this comes across as a decently-rendered version of this IPA sub-style, nice and turbid, with all the other attendant check boxes duly ticked. Flavourful, and a pleasure to drink as the aforementioned, Spring-nigh sunshine pours through the windows, especially given the essentially masked 7 and change points of the ol' wowee sauce inherent in this offering.