Punched Out IPA
Revival Brewcade

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square - gotta give this place credit for procuring all the brand new craft brews coming out from down south in our province.

This beer appears a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with a thin cap of wispy and bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some decent tree copse lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.

It smells of orange, red grapefruit, and lemon citrus rind, grainy and bready cereal malt, some hard water flintiness, a hint of indistinct tropical fruit, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, mixed domestic citrus peel, wet rocks, a still hard to parse exotic fruitiness, and more leafy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its workaday frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a bit of hop astringency maybe not toeing the company line here. It finishes off-dry, the malt holding fast against the lingering wall of hopitude.

Overall - this brewery/arcade seems to improve with each new offering that I encounter. I quite enjoyed this iteration of their IPA, and would certainly have it again, in a situation where it is called for.