Nerf This! Triple IPA
Town Square Brewing Co.

2019/2020 version 10% ABV in a skinny 355 ml can.
Pours a pretty hazy golden orange with 2 1/2 fingers creamy, frothy off white head.
On the nose initial dose piney hops, followed by citrus, mango, pineapple, grainy bready malt, and just a touch of dank note.
Taste starts with notes of stone fruit - peach, orange, mango, some sweet crystal malt, but with a delightful resinous note, hint of pine with a slightly boozy warmth, and building bitterness.
Medium full mouthfeel, tingly carbonation but with a distinct creaminess and lingering astringent bitterness, finishing quite dry.

Sept 3/2024 Skinny 12 oz can may be from same batch (?2020) - so old as heck TIPA….but man that is good - sweet over ripe orange, sticky, boozy and still a bit bitter. Had debated this for some time - glad I finally opened.

1L howler from the brewpub in the wilds of deep south YEG. A collaboration with upstart Edmonton sudsters Analog Brewing.

This beer pours a mostly clear, medium golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some stellar spooky webbed lace around the glass as it slowly evaporates.

It smells of grainy and crackery cereal malt, some red berry and generic citrus fruitiness, a bit of toasted biscuit, a strong hard water flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, some strawberry, mandarin orange, and sweet cherry fruity notes, a still pervasive damp minerality, and more leafy, musty, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing (sort of surprisingly) getting in the way of a swell time here. It finishes trending dry, the hops muscling the malt out of the lingering sphere.

Overall - yeah, they could have gone with 'Brut Triple IPA' in naming this one, because, man, it is almost mouth-puckering. Not to mention the near-invisible 23-proof booze quotient, which is always a neat trick if you can pull it off. Great, great stuff - now I suppose I have to go look up what the hell 'nerf this' means, as I look at the scuffed-up Nerf football my son doesn't play with anymore.