Dark Sky Dark Hefe
Jasper Brewing Co. Brew Pub & Eatery

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square, the remains of a tap takeover that apparently occurred yesterday.

This beer appears a mostly clear, dark orange-brick brown colour, with a thin cap of wispy and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a bit of thick, streaky lace around the glass as things slowly progress.

It smells of lightly roasted, bready and grainy cereal malt, medium chocolate, banana chips, an indistinct earthy spiciness, some estery yeast, and very faint leafy, musty, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and bready caramel malt, some free-range ashiness, underripe banana peel, a further crackery wheatiness, ethereal yeast, and more well-understated earthy, herbal, and dead floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly benign in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the caramel, cocoa, and yeasty essences predominating.

Overall - this comes across as a pleasantly rendered version of this heretofore unheard of style (at least to this observer). Full of flavour, yet kind of inappropriate as we finally emerge from an early Autumn cold snap.