Tri Coastal Wheat IPA
Wild Rose Brewery & Taproom

1L howler from the new Wine and Beyond at Edmonton Southgate. No indication for what the 'third' coast is - if it's supposed to be Alberta, then that's just plain stupid.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with two skinny-ass fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some craggy land bridge lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser edgy wheaten cereal character, some hard water flintiness, dried orange peels, white grapefruit rind, and some leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and bready pale malt, wet wheat crackers, acrid lemon, orange, and grapefruit citrus, a damp minerality, and more earthy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly average in its plebeian frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a wee airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt and lingering hops all getting along just swell.

Overall - this is a pleasant enough additional grain IPA, my second in an hour or so. This time, the wheat is much more subtle, leaving the west-coast leaning hops to do their thing, as that's the only coast that seems to make any lick of sense with this offering.