I don’t know if you’ve been following the news but it’s a crazy world out there. The LCBO on strike, your local super market and corner store selling beer. A helpful beer store employee told me he got yelled at the other day by someone because they don’t sell wine at the beer store. Maybe you wine drinkers should chill a bit, try a sour maybe.
More news that’s old news but new news to me is Kensington Brewery, brewers of a number of fine brews including an amazing beer called Amazing Beer, were recently purchased by the self-proclaimed chillest TO brewer Mascot. What does any of this have to do with how good, bad or indifferent this Super Market IPA is, is anyone’s guess.
A semi-hazy top heavy foam fest of a pop the top on this one. Heavy headed yet clear in a haze? I need to exercise a bit of cognitive dissonance on this tasting because there are a few contradictions in logic happening here. Juice and hop aroma trying to escape through the foam thickness. The first taste has kind of a fluffy mouthfeel to it, foamy. A taste of juice sweet with a very slight grapefruit bitter finish. Sweet? Juicy sweet, and the stage is set for a bitter sweet battle royale.
Sweet: Bitter, are you always so negative?
Bitter: Hey Sweet, looks like you’re gaining weight.
That’s right, the two aren’t complimenting each other.* This Pale Ale, or is it a session IPA, or is it a straight up IPA, just isn’t coming together quite right for me. It’s a confusing fusion of tastes. It’s the sweet that needs to hit the street and leave the juice and hops to sort things out.
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