Unity Brew 2016
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Dark Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.57 | pDev: 5.32%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 25, 2017
- Added:
- Jan 15, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.55/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
16oz pint at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. The 2016 edition of the Alberta Unity Brew, where members of the ASBA come together at a particular brewery to concoct a province-wide collaboration.
This beer appears a clear, bright medium bronzed amber colour, with a thin cap of wispy and bubbly off-white head, which leaves only a few instances of cannonball splash lace around the glass as things quickly subside.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, lightly roasted wheat crackers, some mild mixed dark fruitiness, a hint of earthy spice, and very tame leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is rather sweet caramel malt, further biscuity toffee notes, a lesser edgy wheatiness, some plum and prune black orchard fruitiness, ethereal musty spice, and more plain earthy, leafy, and floral noble hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its structurally supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a minor creamy character settling in shortly after takeoff here. It finishes still fairly sweet, the big malt essences ceding very little quarter.
Overall, I was a tad leery when the genial bartender opined that this 'tasted more like an ESB' before I tried it. Turns out, she was not off-base at all - there are certainly more English bitter notes going on here than any wheat dominating the flavour. Good, I suppose, but perhaps a bit misnamed.
Jan 15, 2017This beer appears a clear, bright medium bronzed amber colour, with a thin cap of wispy and bubbly off-white head, which leaves only a few instances of cannonball splash lace around the glass as things quickly subside.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, lightly roasted wheat crackers, some mild mixed dark fruitiness, a hint of earthy spice, and very tame leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is rather sweet caramel malt, further biscuity toffee notes, a lesser edgy wheatiness, some plum and prune black orchard fruitiness, ethereal musty spice, and more plain earthy, leafy, and floral noble hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its structurally supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with a minor creamy character settling in shortly after takeoff here. It finishes still fairly sweet, the big malt essences ceding very little quarter.
Overall, I was a tad leery when the genial bartender opined that this 'tasted more like an ESB' before I tried it. Turns out, she was not off-base at all - there are certainly more English bitter notes going on here than any wheat dominating the flavour. Good, I suppose, but perhaps a bit misnamed.
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