Young looking young.
Maybe rust never sleeps but if the Department of Morality doesn’t get her afternoon nap you don’t want to be participating in that sleep deprivation experiment. When I saw the name “Rust Never Sleeps” I immediately thought of the Neil Young album.* Classic Canadian rock. Still in thinking mode, I then thought it might be a good night to watch “The Last Waltz”, the 1978 Scorcese movie of The Band, with a number of special guests including, you guessed it, Neil Young. The Band, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell,*** Ronnie Hawkins, a cornucopia of iconic Canuck crooners. You can’t sleep through a minute of this one. How about Young and Robertson** performing “Helpless”, “there is a town in Northern Ontario” (could that be Omemee?) with Joni Mitchell singing background vocals from the shadows. The only way to get more Canadian than that is to be playing along on your air guitar hockey stick.
Despite the name, Trestle makes no reference to Canadiana rock with this brew. This Parry Sound brewer “on the bay” takes their turn at this traditional Bavarian Lager, telling us this is a celebration of Autumn and a bountiful harvest. If there is enough barley, malt and hops to get us through the winter, that’s a harvest that the COM will be celebrating on a regular basis. Marzens were traditionally brewed in the spring and lagered through the summer for a fall grand opening. Time to celebrate the fall, the season not the one from grace, just to be clear.
A ruddy rusty pour, pretty sedate I would say but we know it’s not sleeping. An off-white approaching tan topper. Smells tinny, what’s that all about? Definitely some malt in there too. The initial taste test yields a nice malt caramel backbone with a slight bitter crisp finish and bitter after taste. The bitter hangs on a tad too long, like a conversation with someone that you wish would end but doesn’t. I bit of sweet enters the frame as the bitters back off into the background. I am settling into this marzebier quite nicely as I watch this small screen rock concert. Dylan sings “Forever Young, and Young looks soooo young, in fact they all do. I guess 45 years will add a few wrinkles and a touch of gray. That bitter crisp finish is good but the aftertaste hangs tough. Good solid marzen, after an unseasonably warm start it looks like fall is here to stay.
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