Mast Year Oaked
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square - an Oaked Strong Ale, made at the Calgary production facility.

This beer appears a clear, medium red-brick brown colour, with a thin cap of wispy and bubbly tan head, which leaves a few instances of Loch Ness Monster sighting lace around the glass as things slowly progress.

It smells of bready and doughy cereal malt, some bruised pome fruitiness, faint generic oakey notes, vanilla, and some weak earthy, musty, and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, ethereal wet barrel staves, and more understated leafy, herbal, and somewhat lit-up floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting into any trouble at this point in time. It finishes off-dry, the malt running the lingering racket.

Overall - this is certainly a pleasant enough strong ale, with the 18-proof booze quotient expertly integrated. However, I have no idea how they 'oaked' this brew - my guess is somewhere between briefly and not at all.