Filthy Casual Coffee Dunkel
Town Square Brewing Co.

Appearance - Pours a dark chestnut brown with three fingers of frothy tan head.

Smell - earthy and leafy hops, brewed coffee, coffee bean, hint of wafer stick, nutty aromas, bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast.

Taste - mild earthy and leafy hops upfront. The brewed coffee and coffee bean follow suit. The hint of wafer stick, nuttiness, bready malts, caramel, and earthy yeast finish off the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth and dry with the coffee and malts lingering.

Overall - A flavourful brew that definitely delivers on the coffee front. I like how the coffee, malts, and hops nicely balance in this one. Well worth a try from these guys!

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square - this appears to be a collaboration with a local musical act, as well as a clothing company.

This beer appears a clear, dark orange-brick highlighted brown colour, with one skinny finger of wispy and bubbly tan head, which leaves some undulating mountainscape pattern lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.

It smells of rich artisanal coffee, bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, lactose sugars, and very tame earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, cafe-au-lait, some oily nuttiness, dime store chocolate wafers, and more well-understated earthy, herbal, and grassy hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly benign in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing really causing a stir at this point in the process. It finishes trending dry, the roasted java essence predominating.

Overall - this is one well-rendered coffee lager, if only that it makes this agnostic sit up and pay attention. Full of flavour, and balanced, these guys continue to knock it out of the park.