Cashmere Wet Hopped
Whistler Brewing Company

Poured from a 946ml bottle. Best by May,2017. 42 IBU
L: Pours a clear golden amber with a thin white head minor lacing.
S: Malts and soap? or the hops.
T: Pine is strong some hop bitterness.
F: A bit thick and sweet good carbonation.
O: Just OK.

 

16oz glass at Beer Revolution - hmmmmm...wet hopped beer in January?

This beer appears a glassy, medium copper amber colour, with one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some decent defrosting windshield lace around the glass as it quickly abates.

It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, strong soapy floral notes, some muddled light orchard fruitiness, a bit of hard water flintiness, and more leafy and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy pale malt, a lesser caramel sweetness, some apple and mixed citrus fruit esters, a wee earthy yeastiness, wet stone paths in springtime, and weakening leafy, musty, and floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate for the job at hand, what with its supportive frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, with a minor airy creaminess lurking about. It finishes off-dry, mostly malty, with a fading wan hoppy character.

Overall, this is an agreeable enough pale ale like brew. I can't really discern much I'm the way of freshness, as it's just hoppy to me. Could be that this keg is left over from the actual wet hop season of a few months ago. At any rate, I'm glad that I didn't wait for the 946ml offering to show up around here.

I bought a small 946 ml growler from Spirit of Seymour in North Vancouver. The growler design is awesome: old school apothecary bottle. The beer pours a light golden colour with a small head that stays forever. Fresh beer lacing all the wy down the glass. The taste is light, slightly hoppy but with a funky finish. I guess the funk comes from the wet hopping. It has a piney flavour but that's not too off-putting and it's definately session-able. Funky sessionable ale with an infinite lacey head.....and you get a wee growler to re-fill at the end.