London Pale Ale
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG. Have to look up where this one was made, either across the street, or down in Calgary.

This beer appears a clear, medium copper amber colour, with one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and well-bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some random splattered snow rime lace around the glass as things evenly subside.

It smells of bready, lightly doughy pale and caramel malt, a bit of agreeable yeast, candied orange and lemon citrus, and more leafy, weedy, and faintly perfumed floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy, somewhat biscuity caramel malt, muddled pome and citrus fruit flesh, a hard water flintiness, and more leafy, earthy, and floral noble hoppiness.

The bubbles are up to the task of providing basic support and an otherwise engaging frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, the old-school hops not deigning to interfere. It finishes off-dry, the toffee-flecked caramel malt persisting well, alongside some now struggling mixed green hops.

Overall, a fairly aware of its surroundings EPA, as the hops are kept duly in check, but hardly forgotten altogether. Good and malty, but there is a certain otherness going on here that reminds me of the real English brewing manner, and for that, I salute this effort.