RAAle White Ale
Mill Street Brew Pub

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store. A collaboration brew from the still new-sounding Calgary location, and something called the 'Rural Alberta Advantage' - a (surprisingly not local) musical group, apparently.

This beer pours a hazy, yet bright medium golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, very loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some stellar drooping cloud form lace around the glass as it slowly sinks out of sight.

It smells of bready and doughy pale malt, a lesser cereal wheatiness, some spicy yeast notes, muddled domestic citrus rind, and some mild earthy, leafy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and crackery caramel malt, wet wheat crackers, a gentle earthy yeastiness, some dried orange and white grapefruit peel, subtle indistinct earthy spice, and more leafy, floral, and piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is rather fresh in its palate-supportive frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, as both the yeast and hops do well to be on their best behavior here. It finishes fairly dry, as the recently mentioned metrics see us out the door.

Overall, this is certainly one of the better versions of this hybrid style that I have yet to come across - it is good and hoppy, without too much wanton yeastiness. Easy to drink, and enjoyably refreshing, on a pleasantly sunny October afternoon.