These Strawberries are B-A-N-A-N-A-S Hefeweizen
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

8oz glass at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square (another Liquor Depot special). Getting kinda tired of the Gwen Stefani references when it comes to fruited-up brews.

This beer appears a murky, medium apricot yellow colour, with one finger of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy off-white head, which leaves a few instances of remote islet lace around the glass as it quickly blows of into the ether.

It smells of grainy and bready pale malt, a lesser gritty wheatiness, banana bubblegum, an ethereal red berry fruitiness, some mild earthy spice, and very tame leafy, herbal, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, wet wheat crackers, a sort of bland mixed smoothie fruitiness, faint yeasty notes, and more understated earthy, weedy, and musky floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly benign in its barely-there frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, in the manner of, well, you all know the story by now. It finishes off-dry, mostly just malty and a tad banana-y.

Overall - this comes across as a straightforward Hefeweizen, with the fruity esters faint at best. Not bad, but not really worthy of the cheekily splendidiferous moniker attached to this offering.