Brother Wit Art Thou
Coulee Brew Co.

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - another punny witbier name, which almost seems to have supplanted punny IPA names.

This beer pours a mostly clear, medium golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and rather bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some stellar coral reef pattern lace around the glass as it slowly subsides.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, buttery crackers, banana cream, a hint of earthy spiciness, and very little else. The taste is gritty and grainy cereal malt, more of that Ritz butter thing, overripe mushy bananas, faint coriander/black pepper, and a hint of estery yeastiness.

The carbonation is quite restrained in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and sort of smooth, as a certain clamminess arises as things warm up a tad at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the malt and banana essences exhibiting the most lingering fortitude.

Overall - this comes across as a sort of bland and flabby version of the style, without the yeasty, citrusy, or spicy zing one might have been expecting to offset all that banana. Not offensive to my palate, per se, just to my better sensibilities, I'm afraid to say.