Galaxy Flagstick Hazy Pale Ale
The O.T. Brewing Company

355ml can - a variant of their Flagstick pale ale, wherein they've obviously employed some Galaxy.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat fizzy bone-white head, which leaves some decent bonsai tree pattern lace around the glass as it quickly fades away.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, further indistinct tropical fruity notes, some stoney flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery pale malt, some orange, white grapefruit, and lemon citrus peel, a damp minerality, and more earthy, musty, and resinous piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of hop acridity maybe not playing the role of the perfect houseguest at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the mixed frooty esters and lingering malt making a day of it.

Overall - yup, the Galaxy varietal does well to hold down the fort, in this NE wannabe version of the style. Nice and flavourful, but balanced as well, with very little attendant bitterness, which is something that I guess I have to accept as the new norm, now.

Can't call it hazy if it isn't. That being said not a bad beer, but a little subdued, and the galaxy traits were really not up front and center which is what you expect from the name.