Mason's Afternoon Delight
Town Square Brewing Co.

1L howler from the brewpub - made for (or by, they couldn't say) one Mason Pimm, part of another new Edmonton brewing concern called Ale Architect.

This beer pours a murky, pale golden banana yellow colour, with two flabby fingers of puffy, rocky, and gently bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent high-flying cloud form lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, wet Wheat Thins (a common thing around here with a pre-schooler), banana chips, some mild clove/black peppercorn spiciness, a hint of old-school yeast, and some ethereal earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, a lesser grainy wheatiness, some estery Low Countries yeast, muddled earthy spiciness, a hint of generic citrus rind, and more well-understated leafy, weedy, and dead floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-placating frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and essentially smooth, with perhaps a touch of yeasty intransigence making a minor fuss here. It finishes off-dry, just, as the mixed malt has some lingering say in the matter.

Overall - this comes across as a well-made version of the style, nicely balanced, with all the expected boxes being duly ticked. Easy to put back on a very warm summer evening, one which, even in my typically cool basement, makes everything all clammy - me, that is, not the beer!