Something Tropical
Our Town Brewery

I am inCANsingly CANming to realize that I might need some time off. I have been going for 60+ hours/week for a while & I feel like I need a small break, like two days midweek. Just some downtime to watch some TV, drink some beer take a breath. In the interim, I have a Crowler from my go-to to-go just down the street-a-go-go. I am SO thankful that they are a worthwhile stop & their size means that they have a new release nearly weekly. It also becomes a CANQuest (tm) thing by extension.

From the Crowler/CAN: "1/3/21".

I have become increasingly deft at CANducting a Crack! of the vent & a subsequent C-Line Glug that I rarely worry about dribbling CANy longer. It did not hurt in this insCANce that I did not need to be CANcerned about clarity, given its style. I got a finger-plus of dense, firm, foamy, bone-white head with very good retention from my pour. Color was a murky, turbid Golden-Amber (SRM = > 5, < 7). Nose was amazing in that it was totally pineapple!

It smelled like our garden at Camp Moscrip, NavSta Roosevelt Roads, P.R. in 1993! The First Class Mess was a fenced-in structure with several fruit trees, including pineapple. Following visits to the Bacardi & Don Q distilleries, our own still was built & pineapples from the tree were a primary ingredient. I used to cut them down as a non-cooking imbiber.

Man, this smelled SO fresh! Mmm. Mouthfeel was medium, about on-par for the style. The taste was still very much of pineapple, but not as intensely as the nose had led me to hope. Instead, it had the kind of CANdied sweetness that I used to get with/in/from a pineapple upside-down cake. I would have bet on Caramel malt, only to lose. 8=( Still, if you are in the mood for some pineapple, this beer brought it! This brings me to a CANundrum. It was kind of a one-note CANcert.

What if pineapple is NOT your bag? 8=O We CAN no longer be friends, for one thing! For CANother, you will be left stone cold. Colder than Steve Austin. It will make you sadder than Charlie Brown's Christmas tree & I will be unwilling to hear your CANplaints. CAN you dig what I am saying?

Here in ersatz Piña Colada Land, life was smmooooth. Smooth like a Pineapple Julius at the '70s-era mall smooth, baby. I was totes groovin' on its pineapple smoovy grooviness, dig? This was sunshine in a glass on a cold, overcast Winter's day as I CANtemplated stripping down & stepping out. Or not. It was too cold to be CANrazy but it did evoke warm memories. I wasn't really getting the CANconut until the finish. They might have gone just a tad overboard with the pineapple, but I was not CANplaining. I know of a LOT more people who are intolerant of coconut than pineapple so this may have been a good medium. If you don't like either pineapple OR coconut, then I would advise you to step aside & leave this one for those of us who CAN appreciate & enjoy a tropical brew. Finish resided in that Twilight Zone between semi-sweet & semi-dry. This was CANother winner, as far as I was CANcerned. YMMV.