Last Post Brown Ale
Origin Malting & Brewing

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - nice to see more of this field to glass operation's wares come up the QEII! First brewed for Remembrance Day 2017, hence the name.

This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy beige head, which leaves a few instances of cannonball splash aftermath lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of biscuity and crackery cereal malt, puffed wheat, some earthy nuttiness, bittersweet cocoa powder, subtle day-old coffee grounds, and some plain leafy, herbal, and floral noble hops. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, more edgy wheatiness, oily bar-top nuts, cafe-au-lait, faint generic citrus notes, and more well-understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a hint of unknown acridity slowly seeping into my better sensibilities. It finishes trending dry, the biscuity Alberta malt presiding.

Overall - this is a pleasant enough local brown ale, made in the English tradition. While I find this to be more like childhood breakfast in a glass, and easy to drink, I don't really agree with the self-appointed beer judges in this province who awarded this the best in show medal at this year's Alberta Beer Awards. But then I seldom do.