Unique Brew Snow White IPA
Whistler Brewing Company

 

 

 

943 ml growler,
excellent value ( $5.50 mispriced at BCLS )
not sure I would classify this beer as an IPA,but as a Wheat ale
straw color, flavors: light citrus fruitiness-lemon, yeasty, coriander
nice carbonation, a refreshing beer, very good.

Whistler Brewing 'Snow White IPA'@ 5.5% , served from a 943 ml Boston Growler purchased for $6.20 (she rang in the collab bottle price)
A-pour is a light gold from the growler to a clear pale gold in the glass with a medium size white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-coriander
T-tart grapefruit
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-ok beer
prost LampertLand

 

 

 

This is fun stuff from Whistler! Incredibly well priced, and the coolest packaging I've seen in a very long time. As far as White IPA's go, this has a few things to learn from Chainbreaker or Great White Combine. Overall, it is bright, hoppy, and full of the requisite coriander, wheat, white pepper and pale tree fruit flavors. This is a very inspired effort!

Pours a translucent straw colour with a thin white head. The nose leads with citrus fruits like orange and lemon. Throw in a bit of pineapple and tropical flowers and topped off with some sweet breads. The flavour leads with citrus fruits, corriander, whole wheat bread and pepper. The taste finishes with a more earthy and pine resin hop bitterness that lingers for quite a while. The mouthfeel is in the medium range with an active carbonation. The whole thing is packaged in a nice painted 946ml Boston Round Growler to either recycle or take with you next time you're at your local growler fill.

L: Hazy yellow with a fair white head that leaves some awesome lacing down the side and keeps a little bit of head on the top. Definatly what a white IPA should look like.

S: Cascade and centennial hop with a slightly Citra smell as well, has a little bit of almost coriander to it.

T: Fairly bitter right off the front with almost a little bit of malt to it as well. Honestly not a whole lot going on but it definatly what a white IPA is all about.

F: Slightly carbonated a lot more than what I expected from a howler I thought it would be a little flatter.

O: A pretty good beer was expecting a little more from the beer from what others were saying but overall a really nice one!!

 

946ml, old school medicine-type bottle, part of Whistler's 'Unique Brew' small batch series.

This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a tumultuous amount of puffy, rocky, and somewhat creamy bone-white head, which leaves some attractive if splotchy tree branch lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.

It smells of semi-sweet, grainy pale and wheat malt, some zesty orange and lemon fruity fleshiness, coriander and some other earthy spice element, zingy yeast, and further leafy, weedy, and herbal hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, a lesser edgy wheatiness, more heady white pepper, coriander, and allspice, um, spice, muddled, but still fresh-seeming domestic citrus, vaguely acerbic Belgian yeast, and some plain earthy, herbal, and piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite active in both its fizzy and frothy meanderings. the body a decent medium weight, and so-so smooth, as both the yeast and the varying hoppiness kind of stumble uneasily through here. It finishes trending dry, the graininess starting to peter out, while the yeast and spice strike up their own private band of sorts.

Overall, a fairly decent offering from this brewery - a pleasant enough version of the style, and doesn't that packaging beat all?! Maybe a touch too edgy in the way of the yeast, but there's enough plump citrus fruitiness going on to maintain a certain sense of drinkability. Worth checking out.