MegaWatt New England IPA
Town Square Brewing Co.

This is a few months old so giving it a bit of slack. Great blonde hazyness, strong lemon and grapefruit on the nose with a hint of candy. Great light malt base with some graininess from oat and wheat. Mouthfeel is super soft but a bit thin.

Overall a very good brew.

 

1L howler from the brewpub in deep south Edmonchuk. I first thought that this was a piss take on one of those German metal bands, until I realized it was MegaHerz I was thinking about. Nun ja!

This beer pours a rather hazy and effervescent, medium golden yellow colour, with one zaftig finger of puffy, loosely foamy and mostly just bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent degraded limestone cliff lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of grainy and crackery pale malt, some prominent hard water flintiness, equally heady blood orange, white grapefruit, and overripe lemon citrus notes, a touch of earthy yeastiness, and more leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy cereal malt, more Pez candy 'fruitiness', a still hard to justify yeasty character, muddled domestic citrus fruit, and further leafy, musty, and herbal verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is more than adequate in its palate-mollifying frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a surprising creaminess arising out of absolutely nowhere. It finishes trending dry, the malt and fruity esters surely carrying the lingering day.

Overall - I initially asked how this differs from the Milkshake IPA that they offered a number of months ago, but was duly schooled in the facts that I have apparently forgotten in the interim. This one is adjunct-free, and shows it, basically by exhibiting its solid, old-school American IPA bones. And if you need more information, please don't bother me, as I'm delving into my music library, as such.