Cosmic Debris Pairs Golden Naked Oats With Powdered Citra

Name: Cosmic Debris
Brand: Great Lakes Brewery
Availability: InStock

Golden naked oats on the malt side, Motueka and Talus and a powdered form of Citra on the hop side, and only 4.6 percent to carry all of it. Great Lakes is calling the result soft and juicy, with the space-junk label to match.

Style: Hazy Pale Ale
Release Date: 2026-09-25
ABV: 4.6%
Great Lakes Brewery (Etobicoke, ON)

The malt bill is the part worth pausing on. Great Lakes Brewery built its new hazy pale ale on golden naked oats, a huskless malted oat that shows up more often in darker beers than in something built to taste like citrus and tropical fruit.

Cosmic Debris is a hazy pale ale at 4.6 percent ABV and 20 IBU. The brewery lists malted barley, oats and wheat on the grain side, and Motueka, Citra LUPOMAX and Talus on the hop side. There is also what Great Lakes describes only as a special yeast strain, which it does not name.

That hop trio covers a lot of ground. Motueka is a New Zealand variety with a lime and lemon character. Talus, a comparatively recent American release descended from Sabro, is the one usually credited with the resinous, dank, slightly pink-grapefruit edge. Citra needs no introduction, but the LUPOMAX designation is doing real work: it is a concentrated hop product, sorted to raise the lupulin content well above what whole cones deliver, so a smaller charge lands a larger share of oil and aroma. It is a familiar piece of equipment in hazy brewing at this point, and it is a large part of how a beer this modest in strength ends up described in exclamation points.

The brewery's own note runs to exactly that: tropical fruit, citrus and dankness, "they're all here." On the product page it settles down slightly and describes bright fruity flavours and a creamy mouthfeel, with the beer landing soft and juicy.

The name and the space-junk label follow from a bit of in-house mythology about a crew sent to fetch hops from orbit, returning with a delicious payload and one very expensive fuel bill. Great Lakes suggests a GLB pub pint at 3 to 5 degrees Celsius.

Cosmic Debris arrives Thursday, September 25, at the Etobicoke brewery, the GLB Brewpub on Lower Jarvis Street in Toronto, and the online shop. Cans are 473ml at $3.35, or $65 for a case. It lands the day before GLB Beer Week begins.

Editor’s Take

Golden naked oats are the detail I keep circling back to here. They are a huskless malted oat, kilned rather than just flaked, and they turn up far more often in a brewer's stout or a mild than in something meant to taste like a fruit cup. The usual hazy pale reaches for flaked oats or raw wheat, gets its softness, and moves on. Going to the malted version is a slightly fussier choice that buys a faintly biscuity, nutty thing underneath the haze.

Which makes the hop side funnier by contrast. Motueka, Talus and a concentrated lupulin powder of Citra are three of the loudest things you can put in a tank, and at 4.6 percent there is not much beer for them to hide behind. That is the actual trick of a good small hazy pale: the malt has to be interesting enough to hold the floor without ever raising its voice. Oats and a creamy mouthfeel doing structural work while the hops shout about tropical fruit is a reasonable description of the entire style, but it is nice to see a brewery name the specific oat.

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