Wheat Ale
Boiling Oar Brewing Company

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - weird how craft beer from Calgary costs less here than the same from Edmonton, eh?

This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium golden yellow colour, with two chubby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent tacky snow rime lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.

It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy cereal malt, a bit of crackery wheatiness, some sugary berry and citrus fruity notes, a hint of estery yeastiness, and some plain earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a weak breakfast cereal wheat thing, some still muddled domestic and exotic fruitiness, ephemeral yeast, and more leafy, weedy, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, with a wee airy creaminess seeping in once things warm up out of the ol' basement cellar frigo. It finishes off-dry, the mixed malt and blended hops playing nice with each other in apparent perpetuity.

Overall - this is an agreeable enough version of the style, referred to as a 'hopped wheat ale' elsewhere, as I can now see. Edgy, pleasurable to put back, and another potential patio-friendly offering for the impending (if still limited) summer season in our province.