Haskap Hefe
GP Brewing Co.

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - so named because, well that's what they called it, and also my general lack of respect for where this stuff comes from - not the brewer's fault, FWIW.

This beer pours a murky, dark reddish amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and well bubbly pale pink head, which leaves some pretty decent webbed lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight. Huh.

It smells of musty, yet genial and generic black berry fruity notes, a weird sense of wintermint spice, gritty and grainy cereal malt, faint yeasty notes, and some plain earthy, weedy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, a still rather mixed dark berry fruitiness, weak earthy yeasty, further wan wheat crackers, ethereal white/black ground pepper, and more well understated musty, weedy, and dead floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-baiting frothiness the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, as this particular berry (and brew) seem to be of the inadvertent benevolent sort. It finishes off-dry, all frooty and, well, not much else, suffice it to say.

Overall - yeah, I myself have still yet to encounter a haskap berry, other than those in brews from northern (even from here) climes. It comes across kind of like a Saskatoon berry, but even then, it's been mished and mashed so much, how do ya even tell? Ya don't - ya forget that piece of work of an ex-wife from (not so) Grande Prairie, and just enjoy this with some leftover pizza, the kind that my kid strangely doesn't like. End scene.