Jefe Street Dog Pale Ale
Wild Rose Brewery & Taproom

Jefe Street Dog Pale AleJefe Street Dog Pale Ale
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From:
Wild Rose Brewery & Taproom
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
American Pale Ale
ABV:
4.2%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
3.56 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Inactive
Rated:
May 09, 2018
Added:
May 07, 2018
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.56/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
355ml can - brewed for the AƱejo Mexican restaurant in Calgary (I guess I should have reviewed this four days ago, or so). Oh well.

This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly creamy ecru head, which leaves some decent layered streaky lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.

It smells of musty, sort of dank pine resin, bready and doughy caramel malt, some earthy yeastiness, indistinct dark fruity notes, and further weak leafy, weedy, and dead floral green hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and doughy caramel malt, brown sugar, some still hard to parse black stone fruitiness, ephemeral estery yeast, and more subtle musty, leafy, and floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly tame in its palate-coddling frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of pithy clamminess emerging as things warm up a tad around here. It finishes off-dry, the malt showing some solo lingering moxie.

Overall - this comes across much more like an amber ale than anything from the pale ale (especially North American) realm. I suppose that the sweetness would pair well with a lot of piquant Mexican dishes, so I can sympathize with what they're doing with this offering, but absent some chiles rellenos in front of me, I'm good for just the one.
May 09, 2018