Weisse Riot
Annex Ale Project

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - this appears to be a tribute to the song 'White Riot' by The Clash, who are apparently idolized by the dudes at Annex.

This beer pours a mostly clear, pale golden straw colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fairly bubbly eggshell white head, which leaves some decent Swiss cheese pattern lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.

It smells of sour lacto, gritty and grainy cereal malt, muddled domestic citrus peel, some stoney flintiness, and more earthy, musty, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, orange and lemon rind, some damp minerality, and more leafy, herbal, and resinous piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite active in its palate-pinging frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight, and essentially smooth, with a wee clammy creaminess arising as the ambient temperature levels out around here. It finishes trending dry, the hoppy essences exhibiting a bit of lingering gusto.

Overall - yeah, I'm in that camp that believes that almost all beer styles are made better by hopping the hell out of them, and that is certainly the case with Weisse Riot. The Simcoe, Ekuanot and El Dorado varietals work well together, helping balance out the inherent tartness. Good, good stuff!