Oh My Quad!
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

First off, great name! I've been very impressed with Brewster's beers over the years, and they seem to be getting even better. Bought a 4 pack of this from the Brewsters in Airdrie. I remember meeting 'Dave The Beer Guy" at the main Willow Park liquor store over 15 years ago and still remember him. I expressed interest in a few beers, and he gladly cracked open a few bottles and let me sample them right there in the store.

Pours into my thistle glass a beautiful dark ruby colour, with a volatile and ephemeral off-white head. Looks fantastic.

Aroma is a rich caramel with prunes, dates, figs, a hint of licorice or anise, some yeasty esters, perhaps a little toffee and banana in there. Bit of red apple, yeah, nice and fruity with an excellent malt profile. Sufficiently chewy, with a discernible alcohol warmth in the finish. The flavour delivers superbly.

I think they nailed it. This is a fantastic quad!

355ml can. A collaboration with Dave "The Beer Guy" Gingrich, presumably still of Willow Park's flagship location in Calgary.

This beer pours a clear, dark amber-highlighted brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent splattered snow rime lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells of bready and doughy cereal malt, a mixed bruised pome fruitiness, some mild earthy yeast, and tame leafy, weedy, and gently perfumed floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy and biscuity caramel malt, aged white icewine, a muddled plum and pear fleshiness, some estery musty notes, and more well-understated leafy, herbal, and lit-up floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its crowd pleasing frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a nice aerosol creaminess evolving as things slowly warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the holiday swappable confection association lingering on and on and on.

Overall - this comes across as a duly commendable version of the style, nice and subtle in its rendering. Complex, clean, and worthy of association with one of my favourite Cowtown bearded beer dudes (if my memory serves me correctly).