Feel It Hoppy Pale Ale
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. I have a feeling that this is a leftover late summer offering.

This beer appears a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with a thin cap of wispy and faintly bubbly off-white head, which leaves a few instances of ocean plume lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some prominent tropical fruitiness (pineapple, mango, and kiwi), a minor hard water flinty essence, and further leafy, citrusy, and piney hoppiness. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, mixed exotic and domestic citrus rind, and more edgy leafy, weedy, and gently perfumed floral verdant hop bitters.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-assuring frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a thin airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a smidge around here. It finishes off-dry, the big fruity esters lingering like the boss they know themselves to be.

Overall - this is certainly a pleasant enough, fruity version of the style, with the typical hop bitterness kept to a bare minimum, really. Easy to drink, and refreshing, especially on a post soccer practice, frigid Sunday afternoon.