Ordinary Bitter
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square, across the parking lot from where this stuff is actually made.

This beer appears a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with one skinny finger of weakly puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent pockmarked limestone wall lace around the glass as things slowly abate.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some mixed citrus and bruised pome fruitiness, a hint of earthy yeast, and some plain leafy, herbal, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is biscuity and bready caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, browned apples, and more understated earthy, leafy, and floral green hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly tame in its hamstrung frothiness, the body a solid middleweight for the style, and generally smooth, with nothing in particular getting rowdy at the moment. It finishes off-dry, the biscuity malt pretty much running the lingering table.

Overall - this is a pleasantly rendered 'ordinary' bitter, one which comes across very much like an ESB, only with a couple fewer points of ABV. Full-flavoured, and easy to put back, this is the definition of old-school session ale, if I really must say it.