Chuckwagon Wheat
Mill Street Brew Pub

355ml bottle - part of the current Mill Street Canadian Brewpub pack.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy eggshell white head, which leaves a bit of random coral atoll lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.

It smells of bready and doughy cereal malt, a lesser grainy wheatiness, a touch of earthy yeast, a mild banana-forward fruitiness, and some well-understated musty, herbal, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, wet Wheat Thins, banana chips, a somewhat estery yeastiness, muddled earthy spice, and more ephemeral leafy, herbal, and musty hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the malt and fading banana essence exhibiting the most lingering fervour.

Overall - this is a serviceable enough wheat ale, one which sort of, kind of approaches a more specific Hefeweizen profile at times. Simple, and easy to throw back on a day where I can feel the house getting warmer by the minute.