Be More Kind
Town Square Brewing Co.

1L howler from the brewpub on Edmonton's deep south side. Can't for the life of me recall the earnest barkeep's explanation of this one's name.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden straw colour, with three hefty fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some stellar Mercator Projection pattern lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.

It smells of semi-sweet, bready and crackery caramel malt, some muddled dark berry and generic citrus fruitiness, and very laid-back earthy, musty, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some flinty stoniness, still hard to differentiate domestic fruity notes, and more plain leafy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with not much coming in the way of a genial time at the races here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and plain-Jane fruity esters making me glad for this day to finally fucking end.

Overall - this comes across as a rather well-rendered version of this particular sub-style, the bitterness tempered as much as the ABV. So I guess what we're left to contend with is a sort of sweet, fruity and hoppy brew, whose kindness is currently being assessed - chances are looking good!