I/O New England Pale Ale
Town Square Brewing Co.

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square - apparently the latest collaboration with the Common, a downtown restopub.

This beer appears a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with one skinny finger of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly bone-white head, which leaves a bit of low-lying, streaky berm pattern lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, some hard water flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, some orange, white grapefruit, and lemon citrus rind, a damp minerality, and more earthy, weedy, and resinous piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly benign in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time here. It finishes rather dry, the chalky character predominating.

Overall - this comes across as a pleasantly rendered version of this still trendy IPA sub-style, nice and crisp and quaffable. Worth checking out, just pick what kind of environment you want, as I have already done.