Cloudy With A Chance Of Lemon
Alley Kat Brewing Company

Bought in a 650ml bottle. Pours a hazy yellow with a good head but no lace. You have the domination of lemon and grassy wheat flavour. There is a hint of banana, cloves, spices with bitterness and ending yeasty dry and tart.

341ml bottle poured into tulip.

Pours a hazy bright yellow with a thin ring of white head that leaves melting blobs of lace as it recedes.

Smells of lemon pie, mild banana and clove, soft wheat malt and mild hops.

Tastes of white bread, sweet lemon, mildly spicy yeast (more banana and clove) and more perfectly adequate hops.

Feels light and frothy. Medium-light with creamy carbonation. Finishes mildly sweet and citrusy.

Verdict: Highly recommended on a hot day.

 

 

I was pleasantly surprised here. I'm always skeptical of fruity beers and find a lot of them can overpower the actual style, that said, this one has the perfect hint of lemon.

Pours a bright cloudy yellow with a frothy, white head. From the smell you get the bold wheat and yeast profile as you'd typically expect, with a subtle hint of sweet lemons . The taste is crisp, light wheat with very nuanced and sweet lemon flavor, followed by a crisp yeast and hop finish with a somewhat lingering semi-sweet taste.

Overall, I really enjoyed this, the lemon was quite present without being overdone while also being quite a lively Hefeweizen. Excellent summer beer for a hot day, and with as few as we get in Alberta, its nice to see the local breweries taking advantage.

 

1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor - this is apparently AK's sporadic hefeweizen, brewed with some lemon of an unspecified nature. Also, it will be available as draft-only for summer '15.

This beer pours a rather cloudy, milky golden yellow colour, with four chubby fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and well bubbly off-white head, which leaves some chunky and spooky Hallowe'en tree branch lace around the glass as it slowly sinks away.

It smells of bready, doughy wheat malt, earthy, laid-back yeast, semi-sweet (read: aged) lemon rinds, and tame leafy, weedy hops. The taste is grainy, cereal-like wheat and bready pale malt, my wife's always fast-disappearing lemon squares, kind of testy, in a weekday Whyte Ave afternoon sort of way phenolic yeast, further indistinct citrus notes, and more plain earthy, leafy hops.

The bubbles are adequate in their supportive and palate-taunting frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and more or less smooth, a slight airy creaminess arising shortly after takeoff. It finishes just on the sweet side, the lemon persisting in a pastry-friendly manner, while the underlying hefeweizen remains forsaken by its certainty that it will break no hearts.

An agreeable, easy enough to put back fruity wheat beer, with a whole lot more flavour than yer typical and readily available examples of the augmented style. Nothing complicated overall, though, which is just fine for my imagined (but informed by experience) vector for this offering. Yep, patio season is just around the corner of that as yet un-melted snowbank.