Study Buddy
Theoretically Brewing Company

473ml can poured into tulip. The label says this is a vegan beer, but I will drink it anyway. The label also encourages me to add fresh fruit and that is definitely not happening.

Pours a bright, clear yellow with two fingers of dirty white head that leaves a bit of sudsy lace as it recedes.

Smells of crackery wheat malt, unsweetened breakfast cereal, faint banana and apple chips, and some soft grassy, herbal hops.

Tastes of more crispy cereal, unsalted crackers, muddled dried fruit notes, softy phenolic yeast and gentle hop bitterness.

Feels light and fluffy. Light bodied with frothy carbonation. Finishes dry.

Verdict: Recommended. Despite it's bewildering and offensive label, this is a pretty tasty and drinkable warm weather brew.

 

Look: White, sudsy head that dissipates quickly; cloudy, gold, with some crumbs floating about.

Smell: Crisp yeast, smells kind of like crackers, some hops, hints of pepper.

Taste: Pretty sweet, hints of hops, the sweetness gives way to bitter after swallowing.

Feel: Very light carbonation, leaves a dry aftertaste.

Overall: It's not bad, very easy drinking, but it's not great either. I like the taste in the mouth, but that's undercut by the more dull aftertaste. It kind of reminds me of Spotted Cow from New Glarus, but it's not quite as good.

650ml bottle - some weird hand-written notes on the label, in the vein of giving up your late-night studying, and just having a brew before your next-day exam. Oooooooooookay - spoken truly like students turned brewers, I gotta say.

This beer pours mostly clear, medium golden yellow colour, with one finger of weakly puffy, loosely foamy, and mostly bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some hanging organic alien mothership lace around the glass as things quickly sink away.

It smells of gritty and crackery wheat malt, a bit of semi-sweet pale graininess, muddled earthy spice, some gently phenolic yeastiness, and tame leafy, herbal, and wet grassy hop bitters. The taste is yeasty rising white bread, ephemeral white pepper and coriander spice, a touch of generic pale malt, hints of wet paper unrequited, and more wan leafy, earthy, and dead floral hoppiness.

The bubbles are still pretty involved mid-game, what with their come-hither frothiness, the body a weak middleweight, and mostly smooth, with just a touch of that otherness from this brewer that I can't quite put my finger (or palate) on. It finishes trending dry, the malt shedding any inherent sweetness, and the yeast still having to contend with some its phenolic and packaging material-friendly offspring.

Overall, this comes across as another not yet formed idea of the brewing ideal, if you get my pithy drift. If I had just taken a quaff of this, without any intent of dissecting it like I'm doing here, there is no way in hell that I would peg this as a hefeweizen. Yeasty home-brewed lager/pale ale/Kolsch/you name it? Sure. Something that resembles Gunther's or Olds College's renditions of the style? In the words of Lana Kane on Archer - nope!