Watershed Witbier
Deep Cove Brewers and Distillers

355ml can - the label mentions that it is brewed with Yuzu fruit, apparently, after not so subtly touting the world-class water found around Vancouver.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with two fat fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy eggshell white head, which leaves a bit of streaky land-form lace around the glass as it quickly abates.

It smells of musky and fleshy citrus, bready and crackery wheat malt, mixed white pepper and coriander spice, ethereal earthy yeast, and very faint leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a lesser wheaten graininess, chamomile tea (yay - not), some muted and indistinct citrus fruitiness, sweet coriander, a faded estery yeastiness, and more weak leafy, herbal, and floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its perfunctory frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, nothing really causing any sort of fuss here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, fruit, and spice all playing nicely with each other as they show us out the door.

Overall - this is a pleasant and quaffable enough version of the style, with the guest fruit amping up the typical citrus character, and the chamomile essence thankfully underplayed. Can't really comment on the quality of the water, because of all the other various flavours overshadowing it - too bad, I guess.