This brew is a tribute to all the industrial and industrious hard-working trades people buildin’ boats, weldin’ hulls, patching ports and stitching starboards, bracing bows and setting sterns. Maintaining masts and sewing sails, riveting rivets, priming pumps and baling bilges. Framing the freeboard, fixin’ the freight, and fastening the foremast. Propping up the prop, resetting the rudder, adjusting the anchor, battening down the hatches, overhauling the hull and keel (over)hauling and sealing while they are at it. And once the draught is level and the whole kit and kaboodle holds water, ambling over to a near the dock Street and having a draught from Lock Street. How is that for some nautical nuances ad nauseum.*
This brew is a tribute specifically to Port Dalhousie. And as the Department of Corrections (the missus) makes clear, it is not pronounced Da-how-sie or Dal-who-sie but Dal-lucy, as in the Ricky Ricardo pronunciation.** By the way, I think the grandkids are in training for a position on the Department of Corrections staff, especially the teenager. And of course our esteemed, but more often steamed, Editor enjoys correcting me as well. Funny how the pressure of being right disappears when you are fairly certain you are wrong all the time.
That being said I think I am right about this brew. A light rust shade of golden brown graces this hull. A nice ship trim head of white. Am I ready for an industrial strength pale ale? Yikes. Aromalt is not a real word, I know, but it seems fitting. I am checking to see if my literary license is up to date. Yep, good to go. Robust full ale flavour, malt barley caramel with some citrus hoppy crisp to go. More malt than some pale ales, industrial strength perhaps? Bitters come and go like the seasons only much more frequently.*** A very enjoyable pale ale. As it warmed the bitters got a bit more pronounced or maybe that was bottom of the bilge unfiltered bitters?
A great pale ale.
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