Irish American Stout
Analog Brewing

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square.

This beer appears a clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with one skinny finger of wispy and bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent hanging curtain pattern lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, some muddled pome fruitiness, and faint earthy, musty, and floral noble hops. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, medium chocolate wafers, a bit of oily nuttiness, ethereal bruised apples, and more leafy, herbal, and dead floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its workaday frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time here. It finishes trending dry, the hops kind of bullying the lingering malt.

Overall - this comes across as a pleasantly rendered version of this heretofore unheard of style, i.e. a hoppy dry stout. Definitely worthy of my first bevy for this year's ode to my Irish heritage.