Wai-iti Wheat Ale
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 6.7%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 03, 2015
- Added:
- May 23, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.96/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
330ml bottle, made with the eponymous hops from New Zealand.
This beer pours a mildly hazy, medium copper amber hue, with a teeming tower of puffy, chunky, and melted marshmallow-esque off-white head, which leaves some stellar webbed lace around the glass as it slowly bleeds away.
It smells of light, indistinct citrus zest, pine resin, muddled tropical fruit (maybe some passionfruit, maybe some gooseberries), white pepper, and grainy, crackery pale malt. The taste is bready, doughy caramel and wheat malt, muted orange and red grapefruit rind, a peppy Sauvignon Blanc-like south-seas fruitiness, tame earthy yeast notes, and a further herbal, leafy, and somewhat perfumed hop bitterness.
The carbonation is still quite tight and fizzy/frothy after giving it all up in that opening show, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, those vagabond hops giving this one a pass. It finishes off-dry, just, as the lingering mixed malts do well to keep their collective head above water, in the face of the persistent citrusy, piney, herbal, and otherwise fruity hops.
Wow, Big Rock goes and hits a standing triple with this one, a nice incorporation of another exotic (in origin and in name) hop varietal, sensibly blended with a few more well-known players. I'm not getting a whole lot of the purported wheaty character, as the caramel kind of takes over in that respect. Whatever, hey Big Rock, it's me, and I'm enjoying this offering, with no complaint, no constructive criticism, and certainly no disappointment. Huh.
May 24, 2015This beer pours a mildly hazy, medium copper amber hue, with a teeming tower of puffy, chunky, and melted marshmallow-esque off-white head, which leaves some stellar webbed lace around the glass as it slowly bleeds away.
It smells of light, indistinct citrus zest, pine resin, muddled tropical fruit (maybe some passionfruit, maybe some gooseberries), white pepper, and grainy, crackery pale malt. The taste is bready, doughy caramel and wheat malt, muted orange and red grapefruit rind, a peppy Sauvignon Blanc-like south-seas fruitiness, tame earthy yeast notes, and a further herbal, leafy, and somewhat perfumed hop bitterness.
The carbonation is still quite tight and fizzy/frothy after giving it all up in that opening show, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, those vagabond hops giving this one a pass. It finishes off-dry, just, as the lingering mixed malts do well to keep their collective head above water, in the face of the persistent citrusy, piney, herbal, and otherwise fruity hops.
Wow, Big Rock goes and hits a standing triple with this one, a nice incorporation of another exotic (in origin and in name) hop varietal, sensibly blended with a few more well-known players. I'm not getting a whole lot of the purported wheaty character, as the caramel kind of takes over in that respect. Whatever, hey Big Rock, it's me, and I'm enjoying this offering, with no complaint, no constructive criticism, and certainly no disappointment. Huh.
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