Crop Duster Alberta Ale
Town Square Brewing Co.

Clear, bubbly with a nice golden color to it with loads of head, a good two and a half fingers of whitish, puffy head that has an amazing amount of retention to it and leaves a ton of lacing.

Nice but light aroma of honey and citrus with some ghostly wheat and grassy notes to it.

Lightly bitter orange citrus flavor forward with some light honeyed notes to it and a ghostly hint of lychee.

Lighter bodied but not weak tasting, wheaty with a good amount of sweetness to it, but is very nicely incorporated through out the beer.

Finish is clean with a higher then average amount of carbonation to it and a mild bitterness with a sweet orange peel and lightly grassy flavor to it that leave a pleasant lingering hop tingle on the tongue, overall it ends up feeling perfect balanced between its bitterness and sweetness to make it incredibly easy drinking with out feeling insubstantial.

1L howler from the genial folks down at the brewpub on Edmonton's deep south side. Made with all Alberta malt from Origin Malting.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, rather loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some splendid thickly webbed lace around the glass as it slowly but surely sinks out of sight.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, some muddled tropical fruitiness, a hint of earthy yeast, and some plain leafy, herbal, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, generic red berries, some damp minerality, and more understated herbal, musty, and floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a pleasurable experience at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the complex malty essences predominating.

Overall - this is certainly an enjoyable enough offering, nice and robust in its locally-sourced maltiness, with just enough exotic hops to keep things well balanced, and quaffable. I'll be saving the rest of this to have with pizza or pasta tonight, after which I'm sure that I will be exposed to the alternate meaning of this one's moniker. Or, sorry kiddo, maybe I'll be the one doing it!