Walloon Belgian Blonde Ale
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver.

This beer appears a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with one skinny finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and sort of wispy off-white head, which leaves very little in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of bready and grainy pale malt, chewed-out bubblegum, ethereal earthy yeast, a soft apple and pear fruitiness, white pepper dust, and faint leafy, weedy, and slightly perfume floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a twinge of caramel sweetness, a workaday yeastiness, muddled light orchard fruit, and more leafy, earthy, and floral hoppiness - the extra booze keeping itself more or less aloof.

The bubbles are merely adequate in their plain Jane frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and so-so smooth, as the typical yeasty acerbity takes things down a peg. It finishes trending dry, the faltering malt and increasingly yeasty fruitiness lingering as such.

Overall, this is another bang-on version of a style that seems difficult to get a handle on by New World producers. Sharp, assertive, and actually pleasantly yeasty - too bad it's done for now, or so it seems.