Bow Cycle Pinch Flat
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

Enjoyed a pint at Calgary Crowfoot location. Also enjoyed biboergosum's Edmontonian perspective on the beer (see below). This brew is a rather nice brassy gold hue, clear and with around one inch of white head. Ample carbonation that works to lift up a sublime noble hop aroma. This was perhaps one of the better pilseners I've had in a while, really hit the spot in terms of what a high-end take on this style should do on the palate. Aroma suitably hoppy, herbal, floral, and even features a touch of vanilla caramel sweetness that I suspect could be from German hops (see the Hop Aroma Compendium if you think I'm crazy). Taste is fresh green malt like soda crackers and a little bread crust, along with robust hop flavors of herbal tarragon, floral lavender, green peppercorn and unripe apples, maybe a tinge of vinous fruit like white wine. Metallic notes like fresh copper pennies or perhaps blood. Almost no discernible sweetness, super crisp and dry. Very carbonated but this works well. I think I may prefer this to its Czech pils counterpart at Brewsters, which is also top notch (see that review). Rotating offering ... Try it while you can.

14oz industry pint in Oliver Square in Edmonton. Apparently this is a fundraising joint venture with Bow Cycle down in Cowtown, so at least I'm doing my part (emphasis on the 'least').

This beer appears a crystal clear, medium golden yellow hue, with one finger of flattened bubbly ecru head, which leaves a decent paintjob of specked lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells mildly of bready, biscuity grainy malt, a flinty mineral character, and very tame leafy, floral hops. The taste is more well-rendered biscuity, grainy malt, a slight astringent apple-esque fruitiness, subtle white pepper, and leafy, somewhat weedy noble hops.

The bubbles are tame, but not absent, the body medium-light in weight, and mostly smooth, that wavering flintiness still running off a bit. It finishes barely off-dry, the malt tailing off, and the fruity, bitter hops doing well to fill the void.

An agreeable pilsener, with a definite German sensibility. Worthy of the charitable endeavour, for sure, and a candidate for full-time rotation, IMHO.