Lunch Money

I know that I’ve opined before about the "prolific-ness" of Hamilton, Ontario’s Collective Arts Brewing, so I won’t belabor the point, except to say that these dudes make a lot of different brews and they get a huge number on the shelf of my local stores.

Lunch Money is my latest CA purchase. This ale is brewed with Centennial and German Magnum hops. It’s a pale gold number that pours clear with a bright white puff of foam. Low-powered at just 4.8%, Lunch Money comes in 474mL cans that feature a robot battle scene.

To the nose, Lunch Money is crisp, clean, and pleadingly lemony. Crispness continues into the flavour, which is good, because there isn’t really a lot of boldness here to right about: just notes of lemon and herbal tea preceding an extremely quick finish.

Lunch Money is clearly intended to be a refreshing and sessionable ale. On that front, it succeeds brilliantly. Further, the lemony quality makes for a nice change of pace. However, the beer is underwhelmingly thin and comes up a bit short on flavour. Crushable in a macro lager kind of way and a definite sunny day ale, Lunch Money has craft sensibilities, but lacks depth.

Rating: 6.5 out of 10.