Best Bitter
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

16oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square, where they omit the 'bitter' from the name in their displays, because people won't buy it, apparently. We have so much farther to go, don't we?

This beer appears a clear, dark bronzed amber colour, with one skinny finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and sort of wispy ecru head, which leaves a few instances of cannonball splash aftermath lace around the glass as things evenly proceed.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, applesauce, a further indistinct tropical fruitiness, and some plain earthy, musty, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, sugary domestic pome fruit, brown simple syrup, a bit of estery yeast, and more underwhelming leafy, herbal, and floral green hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly benign in its complacent-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really extant here that might cause any sort of a ruckus, which is a strange thing to say, admittedly. It finishes off-dry, the big malt and mixed frooty essences pretty much running the lingering show.

Overall - yeah, this one needs a heck of a lot more, well, bitterness to be considered anything remotely close to the assumed style. The sweetness actually gets kind of cloying as I make my way through the rest of this Yankee pint - wish I'd only ordered a half-serving.