Pond Surfer
Town Square Brewing Co.

This is my first time having this style of beer I didn't realize it was a style of beer first of all and doing the learning of it and upon first sip I can say this is a style of beer I could be hooked on and this beer the taste of it is amazing and it poured like a charm little biscuit tasting and it works I will be getting this one again and trying more of this style of beer

 

This beer is a very pleasant way to spend a few minutes. Served in a tall glass, it is a lovely red with a tawny head that hangs around for the party. This beer is all about malt, and all I could think was caramel apple. The hops make an appearance, albeit muted and temporary. Overall, a unique and extremely satisfying beer.

1L howler from the brewpub on Edmonton's south side. Not quite sure as to the meaning of this one's name.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium bronzed amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and rather bubbly tan head, which leaves some stellar random tacky snow rime lace around the glass as it gently subsides.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a bit of earthy yeastiness, faint muddled domestic pome and citrus fruity esters, and some understated leafy, weedy, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser toasted caramel thing, further warm breakfast biscuit notes, plain estery yeast, a subtle apple and pear underripe fruitiness, and more tame herbal, leafy, and wet piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, but barely, as that biscuity malt character shows some lingering fervour.

Overall - this comes across much more like a well-made ESB, than any other example of this typically wan style that I have yet encountered. Malty, in a local biscuity manner (I'm guessing Red Shed), and just hoppy enough to keep things nice and balanced. Yeah, good, good stuff. Oh, and once again, suck it Anchor Brewing - uh, sorry, I guess I now mean Sapporo.