Force Majeure
Annex Ale Project

 

 

 

2 week old can that pours a very hazy/milky pale yellow straw colour with 1-2 fingers of white head. Smells of resinous pine, citrus rind, pineapple.
Taste follows - a hard water man minerality on citrus rind, piney hops without gross bitterness, finishing with a touch of hoppy dryness. Quite tasty indeed.

 

 

 

This is a lot like their howling fantods beer but dialed down a notch. Maybe not as novel and fun but way more drinkable and would love to see this as a regular offering.

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store, this time filled by someone who knows what the fuck they are actually doing. Oh, and yet another NEIPA from this Calgary brewing concern, not that I'm complaining about THAT!

This beer pours a cloudy, medium banana yellow colour, with three flabby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some decent dried sponge pattern lace around the glass as it slowly but surely wafts off.

It smells of dank pine resin, gritty and grainy cereal malt, a muddled melon and other sundry tropical fruitiness, faint estery yeast, some hard water flintiness, and further leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, generic domestic citrus rind, more indistinct melon and stone fruity notes, some damp minerality, and additional earthy, musty, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really creating any sort of diversion or distraction here, as such. It finishes trending dry, the malt faltering a bit, as the gentile hops take the keys to closing up shop.

Overall - yup, this outfit, once again, nails another iteration of this IPA sub-style, rendering a full-flavoured, hardly acerbic, and eminently drinkable quaff. Not to mention the extra 2 or so points of ABV, as they are essentially invisible, so I shall bid you adieu as I enjoy the rest of this grand serving.