1st Anniversary IPA
Town Square Brewing Co.

Fresh bomber from source. Golden orange pour - clear - scant short lived whitish head. Amazing sweet citrus, grapefruit, touch of sweat on the nose - thought I caught a faint whiff of gasoline near the end, but could not get on further sniff... Taste of grapefruit rind, pithy, bitter, on the back of initial sweet caramel malt and ripe orange. Medium full mouthfeel - average carbonation -palate coating lingering bitterness that hangs minutes after last sip. Actually quite enjoyed this fresh - bitterness slightly off balance, but not bad at all.

650ml bottle - apparently only available at the brewpub location; pray that be true!

This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent splotchy snow rime pattern lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.

It smells of dank pine resin, gritty and grainy cereal malt, blood orange and red grapefruit rind, a further indistinct tropical fruitiness, and more leafy, weedy, and musky floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, mixed domestic citrus peel, a still hard to parse exotic fruitiness, some damp minerality, and more weedy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the malt bleeding out as the muddled hops keep on keepin' on.

Overall - this comes across as a pleasant enough version of some IPA sub-style, perhaps a blend of West Coast and NEIPA, if I were to take a lazy-ass stab at it. Anyways, full of flavour, and a good attempt at placating me, especially given the north of a sawbuck's retail cost.