Radial Symmetry
Annex Ale Project

650ml bottle - a self-described 'White IPA'. Beer Rev in Edmonton had this listed as 'Radical Symmetry', which I think is an even better name!

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some decent side hedge pattern lace around the glass as it evenly sinks out of sight.

It smells of flinty chalk, gritty and grainy cereal malt, earthy coriander, faint domestic citrus peel, and some leafy, herbal, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, some orange and red grapefruit rind, an ethereal musty spiciness, earthy yeast, some damp minerality, and more leafy, floral, and dead grassy hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing really cause for concern at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the malt kind of closing up shop all by its little lonesome.

Overall - if you take the part of the concept of radial symmetry that implies balance (to me, anyway), then I could see that it could apply here. No one ingredient (malt, citrus, yeast, spice, or hop) stands out, making for a simply approachable and quaffable brew.