Between Jobs
Stockyards Beverage Company

At my lady Pamela's house; canned and chilled, 473mL in a pint glass. From the Huron Church Rd. LCBO in nearby Windsor. Canned August 1/25. My third beer from the Kitchener, Ontario brewery, and first for 2025. Radically recommended by Gracie the cat...

473 mL can from a Stockyards IPA mixed pack purchased at the LCBO; no packaging date and served slightly chilled.

Pours a foggy, translucent pale yellow colour, kicking up an inch of bubbly, foamy white head that melts away over the next three or four minutes. A frothy collar of soapy suds lives on, with an attractive band of messy lace clinging to the glass - lookin' good, I'd say. Citrus and tropical fruits on the nose - pineapple, grapefruit, lime and mango, with maybe a hint of berries.

It's a fairly solid light IPA with no real surprises; its flavours include orange, pineapple and grapefruit, with lesser notes of grainy pale malts, melon and a smidge of mango. Finishes with some grassy, lemon-pithy hops and a faint hint of piney bitterness that dissipates into an off-dry conclusion. Light in body, with assertive carbonation that adds just the right level of bite to this pale ale's smooth mouthfeel. Extremely crushable.

Final Grade: 3.86, a B+. Stockyards' Between Jobs is a fine session IPA, but it doesn't do a great job of distinguishing itself from similar products. More specifically, there's nothing about this beer that stands out: it's just a session IPA, and even though they did a good job, I cannot come up with any reasons to pick this over the scads of comparable light pale ales available in Ontario right now. The flip side of that conjecture is that there's no reason NOT to try this one, unless you just don't like session IPAs in general.

May 4 2025