Grizzly Wheat Ale
Yukon Brewing
- From:
- Yukon Brewing
- Yukon, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 4.6%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 10.03%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 19, 2023
- Added:
- Nov 02, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Grizzly, a long time seasonal favourite, has now been inducted into the Yukon Brewing hall of fame. Hall of famers enjoy permanent status within the core line-up of beers meaning you will never be without this, your favourite brew. Grizzly is an unfiltered wheat ale with natural notes of citrus and a well rounded mouthfeel. A slice of orange is an excellent addition when enjoying this any-time light bodied ale.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
4.13/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.13/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Appearance - Pours a honey gold with two fingers of bubbly white head.
Smell - earthy, leafy, herbal, and floral hops, citrus, honey, bready and wheat malts, and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy, leafy, herbal, and floral hops upfront. The citrus and honey come through next. The brew is rounded out by the bready and wheat malts alongside the earthy yeast.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth with the honey lingering.
Overall - A pleasant and highly sessionable brew. I love the artwork on the can. A nice approachable brew that has just the right amount of honey for the bears to come wanting this brew sort of speak.
Aug 08, 2022Smell - earthy, leafy, herbal, and floral hops, citrus, honey, bready and wheat malts, and earthy yeast.
Taste - earthy, leafy, herbal, and floral hops upfront. The citrus and honey come through next. The brew is rounded out by the bready and wheat malts alongside the earthy yeast.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth with the honey lingering.
Overall - A pleasant and highly sessionable brew. I love the artwork on the can. A nice approachable brew that has just the right amount of honey for the bears to come wanting this brew sort of speak.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.9/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
20oz pint, during the Undergound's Yukon Brewing tap takeover. Apparently this is the base ale for the Deadman's Creek Cranberry Ale, and is popular in its home territory, but has heretofore been unavailable in Alberta.
This beer appears a hazy, medium golden amber hue, with one thick finger of laid-back, frothy, and decidedly creamy eggshell white head, which leaves some stellar Swiss cheese lace around the glass as things duly fade away.
It smells of grainy, semi-sweet pale and wheat malt, mild banana esters, a hint of white pepper, some ethereal field honey, and leafy and earthy hops. The taste is more soft, feathery, and lightly toasted wheat malt, a bit of buttered biscuit, dry honey, faint banana chips, and a redux of the soft earthy and leafy hoppiness.
The carbonation is tame, and playfully frothy at best, the body on the light side of middleweight, and generally quite smooth, with a coy nod towards creaminess. It finishes off-dry, the toasted bready and wheaty biscuit graininess maintaining a certain vigor, one not evident in the rest of the aforementioned flavours.
A rather robust, tasty, and overall eminently drinkable North American wheat ale, the hops employed (Legacy, I believe) doing well to balance things out, without affecting things otherwise. As for the honey, it's mostly lost in the fray, but perhaps it's just been integrated into the pleasant sweetness as a whole. Hard to believe this is the root of the Cranberry Ale - perhaps it's time I revisit that one.
Nov 02, 2013This beer appears a hazy, medium golden amber hue, with one thick finger of laid-back, frothy, and decidedly creamy eggshell white head, which leaves some stellar Swiss cheese lace around the glass as things duly fade away.
It smells of grainy, semi-sweet pale and wheat malt, mild banana esters, a hint of white pepper, some ethereal field honey, and leafy and earthy hops. The taste is more soft, feathery, and lightly toasted wheat malt, a bit of buttered biscuit, dry honey, faint banana chips, and a redux of the soft earthy and leafy hoppiness.
The carbonation is tame, and playfully frothy at best, the body on the light side of middleweight, and generally quite smooth, with a coy nod towards creaminess. It finishes off-dry, the toasted bready and wheaty biscuit graininess maintaining a certain vigor, one not evident in the rest of the aforementioned flavours.
A rather robust, tasty, and overall eminently drinkable North American wheat ale, the hops employed (Legacy, I believe) doing well to balance things out, without affecting things otherwise. As for the honey, it's mostly lost in the fray, but perhaps it's just been integrated into the pleasant sweetness as a whole. Hard to believe this is the root of the Cranberry Ale - perhaps it's time I revisit that one.
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