Hop & Shake Milkshake IPA
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square, ahead of their tap takeover for their sister company across the parking lot - a group of brews eventually destined for Liquor Depot growler bars, FWIW.

This beer appears a rather murky, medium apricot amber colour, with one skinny finger of wispy and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent spectral webbed lace around the glass as things slowly progress.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a bit of lactose sweetness, some mixed dark orchard fruitiness, and further leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some hard water flintiness, muddled domestic citrus rind, and more earthy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly low-key in its workaday frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, with the hops taking it easy on my old palate here. It finishes off-dry, the malt shutting off the lights all by itself.

Overall - this is indeed hoppy and (milk)shaky, so the name makes a modicum of sense, I guess. Otherwise, it's a simple, easy to put back IPA, nothing more, nothing less, and worth checking out, as I'm certain you'll be getting a chance to soon.