Brain Freeze Milkshake IPA
Town Square Brewing Co.

 

32 oz growler from Town Square. Pours a mostly clear dark golden to orange with minimal head; aroma of juicy citrus, orange - slightly sweet. Taste of sweet creamy citrus, orange, orange peel. Hoppy but not bitter with a bit of astringency at the finish.


Release in cans summer 2019 - hazy uniform golden orange with 3 fingers puffy white head.
Aroma amazing orange creamsicle, caramel malt, sweet grapefruit.
Taste sweet over ripe orange, orange creamsicle of my childhood - if that creamsicle was tempered by a smooth caramel malt and pleasant hoppiness.
Creamy medium full mouthfeel with lingering orange juice sweetness and finishing with just that tiny snap of hoppy bitter. I liked this two years ago and love it now.

1L howler from the brewpub in the sticks of south Edmonton. Apparently this one was nitrogenated.

This beer pours a hazy, yet bright medium apricot amber colour, with one zaftig finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and rather bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent thickly webbed lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, sugary orange and red grapefruit, some hard water flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, orange juice, a plain creamy milkiness, further indistinct citrus flesh, damp stones after a hard rain, a faint earthy yeastiness, and more edgy leafy, herbal, and grassy verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly tame (it being nitro and all) in its understated frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and quite smooth, with a pleasant as peach creaminess pretty much there from the get-go. It finishes off-dry, the malt and milky citrus elements workin' it like they're being paid overtime.

Overall - my brain isn't exactly frozen just yet, but I'm sure it soon will be - the 16-proof wowee sauce component having yet to show its hand. The Creamsicle angle here is justified, though not overbearing, in that the base IPA goodness gets its day in the sun as well. Totally worthy of checking out, no matter what your capital region location, IMHO.