3 Down Belgian
Town Square Brewing Co.

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. A collaboration with Calgary's Freehold Brewing.

This beer pours a murky, medium orange-brick amber colour, with a thin cap of wispy and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a few instances of approaching ice floe lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, some muddled and bruised pome fruitiness, musty yeast notes, and plain earthy, herbal, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, a lesser damp wheat thing, underripe apple and pear peel, more sort of phenolic yeastiness, some oily bar-top nuts, and more well-understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its structurally supportive frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a more or less swell time here. It finishes trending dry, the Alberta malt evident in its lingering proclivity.

Overall - this is definitely a drier version of the style than to which I am typically accustomed. Like I mentioned above, two Wild Rose Country brewing concerns have put their own stamp on this venerable Belgian-inspired offering.