Pierre
Blindman Brewing

My bottle is a year, maybe 18 months old, Beautiful near clear pale straw pour (though last 4 oz shared not clear - tad hazy) with 1+ finger white head. Aroma initially bubblegum, banana, and bready but as warmed became more citrus and floral. Taste funky sweet malt, citrus, a bit of pear, moving to a funky tartness, Crisp carbonation on a light to medium body - nicely tart but a bit of an aspirin aftertaste the only real detractor.

 

 

 

8oz glass at Beer Revolution's actual full tap takeover of Blindman's offerings. Wow. The first thing to come out of their vaunted foeder program, I do believe.

This beer appears a hazy, pale golden straw colour, with one finger of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy bone-white head, which leaves some pockmarked concrete wall lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of horsey funk, bready and doughy cereal malt, a further earthy yeastiness, some tame generic citrus rind, and very subtle musty, herbal, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a minor wet woodiness, gently funky yeast, muddled pome and citrus fruity notes, and more understated earthy, musty, and dead grassy hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its quotidian frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of funk getting all up in my palate, as such. It finishes trending dry, the yeast wrapping things up with a certain no-nonsense efficiency.

Overall - this is touted as a 'Trappist-style single', aged for an unspecified amount of time in French oak foeders, as previously mentioned. Interesting, and definitely funky, which I'm not entirely sure is the point of such a thing, but worth checking out, as a new day dawns in this burgeoning Alberta craft beer scene.