BITTER WAITRESS ~ SHILLOW BREWERY

Shillow Brewery is a very new start-up brewery owned and operated by the Shillow Brothers.   They began by brewing a beer exclusively for the Beer Bistro (Sass on the Side); “Bitter Waitress” is their second release and will be their flagship beer.  Bitter Waitress is a Black IPA.   It pours a deep chestnut brown, with a foamy beige head.  The nose has a melange of grapefruit, pine, and dark roasted malts.   The taste has intense dark roasted malts, burnt caramel and subtle hints of black liquorice dryness.  The 86 IBU bitterness is well hidden behind the alcohol content, but still gives a hop kick at the end.  (German Magnum, Willamette and Ahtanum hops were used) A really well balanced beer with complex and intense flavour. 

7.1% from Oakville, Toronto, Ontario   86 IBU

(Shillow is a nano-brewery based in Toronto, brewing out of Cameron’s in Oakville)