He kindly donated a can for me to bring home where I drank it in the last rays of Sunday's sun. This is definitely a refreshing beer, and was much appreciated on a warm sunny afternoon it's just a little confusing.Īround the corner, last Friday, Stephen Street News hosted the third beer release from Liam, aka Dead Centre Brewing: Seeking Sunshine IPA. A dry and tannic finish complements the spicing. There is a slight herbal tang on the tail, but it's not the oily green richness of real basil. It certainly shouts over the hopping, and I am assured that no ginger was involved in the recipe. There's definitely something other than the usual in here, but I'd swear it was ginger: that slightly woody, chewy, spice you tend to get from real fresh ginger. Staying in that pub, owner Carrig's other new guy was Basil Blast, a gold-coloured Centennial and Simcoe pale ale of 5.5% ABV, with a purported large helping of basil in the whirlpool. Contrived and bound to upset any Germans who come to Bar Rua looking for a weissbier. The flavour is pretty much the same, adding a touch of banana foam sweets. The mere 4.6% ABV is further evidence of inauthenticity, but it really kicks in from the aroma: sweet and sticky like a lemon meringue pie. The hacking is apparently no more than dry hopping with the titular hop and Denali, but my pint arrived clear and gold in a straight-sided glass, the attempt at a big weiss head making it look like an underfilled pint of lager. That backed up my notion that weissbier isn't one of the traditional styles amenable to craft hacking, a prejudice which was further confirmed by Lemondrop, just released by Carrig Brewing.
For all the wowee craft innovation it's quite a plain beer, a lot less interesting than any standard weizen you care to name. I get the Polaris, though: a sharp herbal mint. On the other side it's a weissbier by texture for sure, but that's it. There's a sharpness which could be attributed to the berries, but nothing that really says blueberry flavour. There's not much aroma, while the flavour is odd and perfumed: a mix of miscellaneous spices and non-specific fruit. It looks like a smoothie, pouring a murky dark purple hue, without a proper weissbier head. "Polaris hopped blueberry weizen" is the unlikely style statement, and it's 5% ABV. I'm picking things up where I left them yesterday with Praetorian, new from YellowBelly and as far as I know exclusive to its beer club subscribers. This is day eight of Indie Beer Week 2018 and I'm rounding off my series of posts with the beers I discovered during the week itself.
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