Street Beat Pollen Wheat
Blind Enthusiasm Brewing Company

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From:
Blind Enthusiasm Brewing Company
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
American Pale Wheat Beer
ABV:
5%
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
3.71 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Inactive
Rated:
Mar 04, 2018
Added:
Mar 04, 2018
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.71/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square. Somehow it is easier for me to get here to try this brewery's offerings than it is to go to the brewpub that is closer to my home.

This beer appears a clear, medium golden yellow colour, with one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat creamy dirty white head, which leaves some random coral reef lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of bready and grainy cereal malt, a bit of sour yeastiness, spicy wheat, a hint of mixed peppercorns, and some earthy, herbal, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a lesser crackery wheatiness, gently phenolic yeast, weak earthy spice notes, and more understated leafy, weedy, and floral noble hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-satisfying frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a sense of astringent yeast making a minor dent in the veneer here. It finishes trending dry, the floral character exhibiting some lingering chutzpah.

Overall - this comes across as a pleasantly rendered version of the style, with some additional estery essences from the purported pollen rounding out the experience. Worth checking out, if only to determine the meaning of this one's name.
Mar 04, 2018