Oso Good
S.Y.C. Brewing Co.

 

Appearance - Pours a copper with three fingers of tan head.

Smell - earthy, leafy, and floral hops, roasted malts, coffee bean, nutty aromas, milk chocolate, cocoa, and earthy yeast.

Taste - earthy, leafy, and floral hops upfront. The roasted malts, coffee bean, nutty aromas, milk chocolate, and cocoa follow suit. The earthy yeast finishes off the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes off dry with the malts and other ingredients lingering.

Overall - A highly drinkable brown ale that is very crushable. Some minor tweaks would make it more true to the style but nonetheless a pleasant tipple.

 

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square - always glad to see this Edmonton brewery's wares here. Yeah, I'm lazy like that.

This beer appears a clear, medium orange-brick brown colour, with one skinny finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some pockmarked limestone wall lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, some earthy nuttiness, bittersweet cocoa powder, and very tame leafy, musty, and dead floral hops. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, oily bar-top nuts, medium chocolate wafers, day-old coffee grounds, and more understated earthy, herbal, and floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-assuring frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a thin airy creaminess arising pretty much from the get-go. It finishes off-dry, the various malt essences presiding.

Overall - this comes across as a rather well-made version of the style, very flavourful and easy enough to put back. Worth checking out, especially if this is your kind of thing.