ALL OR NOTHING ~ UNDERDOGS BREWING

I must go back and try this one again, because I think my taste buds may have been corrupted by that god-awful Voodoo Doughnut crap, I took of few sips of before this. 

All or Nothing is the flagship beer of Oshawa’s Underdog Brewing. The beer is touted as a cross between a Hopfenweisse and a west coast pale ale.  The beer uses three types of malt and four hops to create the flavours.

Sampled from a tin, the beer poured a cloudy golden amber colour with a moderate head that quickly disappears. The nose is made up of typical wheat beer flavours:  bubble gum, banana, beady yeast and spice.  There is a little bit of hoppy grapefruit citrus on the nose as well.  The flavour had a lot of the typical banana flavours with bready yeasts and lemony citrus.  There was a grapefruit (and slightly piny) hoppiness at the finish.  The hops aren’t as strong as advertised on the tin.  As I finished the beer I went to take the last sip from the tin, but instead got a jolt of extremely unpleasant bitterness from sediment at the bottom on the tin. YUK!  It’s all right but nothing great, I have tasted other Hopfenweisse that I liked more.

5.1% from Oshawa, Ontario 25 IBU

AUTUMNUS ~ NICKEL BROOK  

Sampled on Draught.  Autumnus is a hefeweizen and a one-off brew form Nickel Brook   It pours a hazy light yellow with a small white head.  The aroma is quite floral with herbal and earthy-grassy notes.  Flavour is quite similar to the nose with lingering herbal and floral notes, and a touch of citrus and subtle spice.  There were no traces of bubble-gum or banana so often found in other hefes.   The beer had creaminess to it with a clean bitter finish.  Nice mix of wheat and hops.  Good beer for transitioning seasons.

5.7% from Burlington, Ontario

MEIN HOPFENWEISSE/ SCHNEIDER-BROOKLYNER (TAP5) ~ WEISSES BRÄHAUS G. SCHNEIDER & SOHNS

This Weizenbock is a joint effort from long-time friends Garrett Oliver (Brooklyn Brewery Brew master, New York) and Hans-Peter Drexler (Schneider Brew master).   The two brew masters were admirers of each other’s work.  Garrett liked the balance of flavours in Schneider's Weisse and Drexler admired the hoppy character of some of Brooklyn breweries beers.  The creation is a dry-hopped pale Weissbock that has been brewed since 2008. Our bottle poured an opaque dark yellow with a good head that diminished slowly.    The nose is a lovely melange of overripe bananas, spice, yeast and hops, with many subtleties.  The taste is lots of ripe fruit, especially banana and other tropical fruits, clove and other spice, a slight sweetness, bready malt and a satisfying floral hop bitterness.  The beer is well balanced and quite complex in flavour – not an easy feat.   At 8.2% this beer did not taste as boozy as it is.  Very drinkable - Excellent beer!

Hops:  Hallertauer Tradition and Saphir

Malts: 50 % wheat malt, 50 % barley malt from the region of Kelheim

Bottle and keg conditioned

8.2% from Kelheim, Germany  IBU 40

WAG THE WOLF ~ BEAU’S

A delicious Summer beer!
A Pale Wheat beer made in the HOPFENWEISSE style. Pale gold and a little hazy in colour. Fruity and citrusy, and perhaps a little spicy, with a clean hoppy bitterness at the end.
6% from Vankleek Hill, Ontario

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