Early Dismissal
Our Town Brewery

 

Our Town Brewery (OTB) was having its first bottle release the other day & they had just recently released this one, so I decided to make it a two-fer-one trip when picking up my reserved bottle. It did not hurt that this was a pre-filled Crowler to keep the line moving that day since The CANQuest ™ does NOT discriminate. However, I would have liked it to read “E/D” since that was the CANmon abbreviation when I was an educator.

From the Crowler/CAN: “12/22”.

I gotta say, as I prepared to Crack! open the vent for a slow, gentle C-Line Glug into the awaiting glass, I was enamored of a Winter Lager sans spices, et al. Just a higher ABV suited me just fine on this day. I was equally enthralled as it formed two-plus fingers of foamy, soapy, rocky, tawny head with decent retention that slowly reduced to a solid cap. Color was a gorgeous Deep-Amber/Light-Copper to Copper (SRM = > 13, < 17) with button-brightness & NE-quality clarity. 8=O Nose held a slightly-sweet breadiness along with a slight honey-like quality, very much like freshly-baked bread drizzled with honey! Mmm. Mouthfeel was thin-to-medium, about on-par for a Lager. The taste was (thankfully) less sweet than the nose had led me to expect, but still quite bready, although the honey smell did not translate into its taste. The term “liquid bread” was applied by fasting monks to Bocks & Doppelbocks for their ability to sustain them during a day’s fasting period (sunrise to sunset), but this really tasted like liquified bread! Its maltiness was reservedly sweet with a yeasty quality that was quite reminiscent of freshly-baked bread. Mmm. I used to love to bake, especially desserts, but bread is such an instantly rewarding product as it CAN be CANsumed right after CANming out of the oven. I wonder how long the fermentation time was on this one. Hmm. Finish was semi-sweet, but a really enjoyable way to spend part of a Winter’s day. YMMV.