White IPA
Troubled Monk Brewery

I made notes on this one - growler purchased and consumed at my annual NHL franchise draft last October - just found the notes! Another experimental brew from Troubled Monk, and this one turned out well. It was consumed from a red solo cup, so I didn't get the best representation of look - pale yellow with a thin white head. The smell is very much prairie - wheat, pale grain, and definite coriander. The overall package is lovely - another TM brew I hope to see again this summer.

1L howler from Keg n' Cork, filled just past quarter full, due to tap burnout. And yep, they still charged me something for it.

This beer pours a murky, tarnished whitish yellow colour, with a thin cap of wispy and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a bit of random remote islet lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, sharp underripe orange and white grapefruit bitters, a hovering earthy yeastiness, a touch of dank pine resin, and some further leafy, weedy, and grassy hoppiness. The taste is gritty and grainy pale and wheat malt, a more subdued and mixed citrus note than that of the nose, some subtle white pepper and clove spiciness, still loitering yeast, and more mildly astringent leafy, piney, and herbal hop bitters.

The carbonation is fairly blase in its hard to really get into frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight for any of the considered input styles here, and generally smooth, only a touch of wayward yeast action causing any concern. It finishes off-dry, but barely, as both the yeast and lingering generic hops insist on having their way here.

Overall, a pleasant enough rendering of this hybrid style, both the Belgian-influenced yeast and West Coast Yankee hops crashing into each other and sharing their blood colours nicely. Maybe I got more than my fair share of the former, given the serving parameters, but I suppose that I'll find that out on some random patio later this year.