IPA
S.Y.C. Brewing Co.

 

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square, on a stupidly windy afternoon.

This beer appears a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with a thin cap of wispy and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some hanging curtain pattern lace around the glass as things quickly progress.

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, orange and red grapefruit citrus flesh, some damp minerality, and more leafy, weedy, and resinous piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite active in its palate-tickling frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time here. It finishes trending dry, the hops pushing their lingering agenda.

Overall - this comes across as a pleasantly rendered, old-school version of the style, taking me back to memories of my first time trying it on for size. A nice introduction to the as of now newest Edmonton craft brewing concern.