Schank'd It!
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Berliner Weisse
- ABV:
- 3.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.7 | pDev: 3.78%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 28, 2017
- Added:
- May 07, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.69/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.69/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - the latest in this outfit's Back Alley Brews series, and this time it's a Berliner Weisse, flavoured with hibiscus flowers. There have apparently been a few offerings of the same name and style made before, but I guess Alley Kat gets the nod for the first one in a packaged format.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium salmon colour, with two fingers of puffy, very loosely foamy, and fizzy pale pink head, which leaves zilch in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of bready and crackery wheat malt, laid-back lacto, a further indistinct cereal graininess, and some very tame earthy, leafy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gently sour spoiled milk (kind of like that lumpy stuff I poured down the drain the other day - back to buying 1L, I guess), gritty and grainy pale malt, wet wheat crackers, a bit of red floral acridity, and more well understated leafy, weedy, and dead grassy noble hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its quotidian frothiness, the body on the light side of middleweight, and mostly smooth, nothing come between my palate and a good time here. It finishes trending dry, the malt bleeding out, the sour factor no longer one, and that musky floral thing lingering with the most fervour.
Overall, this is an interesting and approachable version of the style, as the sour and tart metrics are restrained at best, shall we say. Worth checking out if you're new to this sort of thing, or, if like me, you just want to have a new Edmonton-made brew to sip (or pound back, we shall see) as the local pro hockey team plays another one for a sizable bag of marbles.
May 11, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium salmon colour, with two fingers of puffy, very loosely foamy, and fizzy pale pink head, which leaves zilch in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of bready and crackery wheat malt, laid-back lacto, a further indistinct cereal graininess, and some very tame earthy, leafy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gently sour spoiled milk (kind of like that lumpy stuff I poured down the drain the other day - back to buying 1L, I guess), gritty and grainy pale malt, wet wheat crackers, a bit of red floral acridity, and more well understated leafy, weedy, and dead grassy noble hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its quotidian frothiness, the body on the light side of middleweight, and mostly smooth, nothing come between my palate and a good time here. It finishes trending dry, the malt bleeding out, the sour factor no longer one, and that musky floral thing lingering with the most fervour.
Overall, this is an interesting and approachable version of the style, as the sour and tart metrics are restrained at best, shall we say. Worth checking out if you're new to this sort of thing, or, if like me, you just want to have a new Edmonton-made brew to sip (or pound back, we shall see) as the local pro hockey team plays another one for a sizable bag of marbles.
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