CFL Beer
Great Western Brewing
- From:
- Great Western Brewing
- Saskatchewan, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 4.6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.2 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 24, 2013
- Added:
- Nov 24, 2013
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.2/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.2/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
355ml can. As the official brewery of the CFL, it's nice to see them release a wheat beer in advance of the occasion. Even nicer that the Grey Cup is being held just down the road from their hometown, and most nicest (?) that the Roughriders are playing in the game.
This beer pours a crystal clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of rather puffy, and densely foamy off-white head, which leaves some decent layered streaky lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly beats it outta town.
It smells of gritty, grainy wheat malt, a mild plastic phenolic essence, hints of banana chips and airborne black pepper, and plain earthy, generic drying hops. The taste is semi-sweet pale grainy wheat malt, a further touch of barley sweetness, middling yeast, echoes of lemon rind, and weak earthy, leafy hops.
The carbonation is quite soft and innocuous, the body medium-light in weight, and mostly smooth, with a hard water sort of manner. It finishes off-dry, the grainy sweetness more or less parried by a drying fruitiness, and plain mustiness.
As one of the very few non-lagers (I think) brewed by Great Western, this is actually OK, nothing really all that off, and simple in its disposition. There's a hollowness inherent here, I suspect, one that might make the repeat consumption of this offering (for Grey Cup festivities, and then I suspect its appeal drops off precipitously) a bit of a chore. But that's from my viewpoint - I'm guessing (and somewhat hoping) that this will go down like so much water, pregame, postgame, and damned near everywhere in between, today.
Nov 24, 2013This beer pours a crystal clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of rather puffy, and densely foamy off-white head, which leaves some decent layered streaky lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly beats it outta town.
It smells of gritty, grainy wheat malt, a mild plastic phenolic essence, hints of banana chips and airborne black pepper, and plain earthy, generic drying hops. The taste is semi-sweet pale grainy wheat malt, a further touch of barley sweetness, middling yeast, echoes of lemon rind, and weak earthy, leafy hops.
The carbonation is quite soft and innocuous, the body medium-light in weight, and mostly smooth, with a hard water sort of manner. It finishes off-dry, the grainy sweetness more or less parried by a drying fruitiness, and plain mustiness.
As one of the very few non-lagers (I think) brewed by Great Western, this is actually OK, nothing really all that off, and simple in its disposition. There's a hollowness inherent here, I suspect, one that might make the repeat consumption of this offering (for Grey Cup festivities, and then I suspect its appeal drops off precipitously) a bit of a chore. But that's from my viewpoint - I'm guessing (and somewhat hoping) that this will go down like so much water, pregame, postgame, and damned near everywhere in between, today.
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