Lemon Drop Pale Ale
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

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From:
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
American Pale Ale
ABV:
5.5%
Score:
+8 ratings needed
Avg:
3.51 | pDev: 0.28%
Ratings:
2 | reviews: 1
Status:
Inactive
Rated:
Jan 21, 2018
Added:
Jan 06, 2018
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
 
Rated: 3.5 by Howlader from Canada (AB)

Jan 21, 2018
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.53/5  rDev +0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
1L howler from the Century Park YEG location - thanks be to the friendly bartendress who finally, after all this time (not her, the company), figured out how to pour me this serving size. #growingupishard

This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with one measly finger of weakly puffy, loosely foamy, and mostly just bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some decent boiling cauldron lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some indistinct domestic citrus rind, a bit of hard water flintiness, and some earthy, musty, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery cereal malt, subtle overripe lemon notes, a bit of wan minerality, and more understated earthy, herbal, and floral 'verdant' hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly timid in its barely-there frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, with a weird pithy astringency slowly making waves where there should be none. It finishes off-dry, but not by much, as the grainy base malt waves bye-bye to the bland lingering hops.

Overall - this is a barely adequate hopped-up pale ale, the guest variant here sort of clocking in, delivering a tepid performance, and then punching out early, as such. Not something that I care to revisit, as it does nothing to convince me to engage in repeat rounds.
Jan 06, 2018