2919 Blonde
Town Square Brewing Co.

1L howler from the brewpub in Summerside, in deep south Edmonton, with the brew so named simply after their street address.

This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with one fat-cat finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some coral reef profile lace around the glass as it slowly but surely blows off.

It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, some lemon and underripe apple acridity, a hint of earthy yeastiness, and some plain leafy, weedy, and musty hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, a further breakfast cereal graininess, muddled domestic pome and citrus fruity esters, a fading wan yeasty 'character', and more understated earthy, musty, and dead floral green hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its plebeian frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and more or less smooth, nothing really existing here that might be a cause for concern. It finishes off-dry, the straight-shooting cereal malts lingering almost solo, with not a friend in sight.

Overall, this is indeed an easy-going, nothing to write home about (myself excluded) version of the style, but at least a well-wrought one, no adjunct unpleasantness here, which has always been a hallmark (in my experience) of Canadian-made craft blonde ales. Good stuff.