The Perfect Pear Tea Saison
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square (another Liquor Depot special). Is there such thing as a Perfect pear? Or are they just self-aggrandizing?

This beer appears a hazy, pale golden straw colour, with one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some decent Swiss cheese pattern lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells of semi-sweet, bready and grainy cereal malt, pear concentrate, generic tea tannins, and some tame earthy, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser biscuity wheatiness, oversteeped pear-flavoured herbal tea, and more understated earthy, musty, and floral green hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite laid-back in its quotidian frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really causing any sort of ruckus here. It finishes off-dry, the big malt and lingering pear fruitiness making a day of it.

Overall - this is a pleasant enough version of the style, with the two guest ingredients adding another layer of complexity to the whole shebang. Refreshing, and something that will probably turn out to be a big hit once we leapfrog past Spring, right into Summer.