Shake Your Fruity Milkshake
R & B Brewing Co.

16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. Looks like the milkshake IPA craze has some legs to it!

This beer appears a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with one thick finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some melting iceberg lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of orange gummy candies, bruised apples, bready and doughy pale malt, a hint of lactose sweetness, a bit of wet minerality, and some leafy, weedy, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and bready caramel malt, a mixed bowl of domestic fruitiness, vanilla ice cream, and more zingy leafy, grassy, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its quotidian frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with perhaps a minor hoppy acridity not playing all that well with the other kids here. It finishes off-dry, the fruity and milky essences running the lingering table.

Overall - this is a pleasant enough version of this newfangled 'style', with the fruit character kind of indeterminate, but still enjoyable all the same. Definitely Creamsicle-leaning in its impression, which always plays well around here, be it beer or anything else.

 

Look: pale golden color with tons of floaters. Kind of like watching the snow in a Christmas globe settle. A tight bubbly head that quickly dissipates leaving tons of lacing along sides of glass
Smell: a delicate floral, honey and melon scent quickly gives in to a strong wave of dank pine cone forest floor blend.
Taste: a delicious golden honey drizzled on a honeydew melon with a strong evergreen tree flavor following on the back end. Slightly tart but with a very clean finish, not much of a lingering bitter but rather a lingering floral aftertaste.
Feel: very smooth and lush with enough prickle in the carbonation to keep things interesting
This brew was something I chanced upon while visiting Victoria, I'm very impressed! I hope that is in regular rotation up here so I can try again

 

Poured from a 650ml bottle. Lactose and Apple Puree added, 38 IBU
A: Pours a slightly hazy light gold with a nice lasting white head with some lacing.
S: Pine , citrus and floral nose with hops not a strong nose at all.
T: Pineapple and citrus fruits mild pine and hops.
F: Good balance the Lactose and Apple seems to make things smooth.
O: A pretty good IPA overall way better then i figured .