Civic Pride
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

12oz glass at Brewsters Century Park - apparently, this is a new watermelon brew, irrespective of the similar Fruit Hog releases from a few years back. Yeah.

This beer appears a murky, medium apricot yellow colour, with a thin cap of wispy and streaky dirty white head, which leaves a few bands of streaky and cloudy lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.

It smells of overripe watermelon rind, grainy and crackery pale malt, some mild stoney flintiness, and very, very tame earthy, musty, and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is mixed melon fruit bowl (one left out too long at the party that never ends), a muddled cereal malt, faint wet mineral notes, and more meek leafy, weedy, and musty hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly benign in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a soupcon of a hint of frooty tartness making minor waves at this particular point in the process. It finishes trending dry, the watermelon standing its admittedly understated lingering ground.

Overall - this comes across as a genial enough offering, another worthy experience for a sunny and very warming February day, which has become the norm, of late.