Bench Rest Buckwheat Ale

East Van Brewing Company in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

Speciality Grain Regular

Score

6.10

ABV: 4.5%

IBU: 13

Ticks: 6

A Hef base with a touch of my sourdough baking techniques transformed into a beer. Toasted Buckwheat and Golden Naked Oats give this beer a unique nose with our house yeast adding a bit of tartness and citrus flavor.

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5.6

pictoman (9684) reviewed Bench Rest Buckwheat Ale from East Van Brewing Company 4 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Poured from the tap. Buckwheat with a hint of lemon and feint weird funk. Effort marks, but not quality.

Tried from Draft on 25 Jun 2021 at 03:39

6.4

Deanf (9781) reviewed Bench Rest Buckwheat Ale from East Van Brewing Company 7 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Nice foam on top and good clear light gold body. Soft lemony dry white bread aroma. Flavour is funky grain with citrus notes and a dry finish. Pretty nice, well made.

Tried on 05 Oct 2018 at 23:57

6.4

Oakes (33493) reviewed Bench Rest Buckwheat Ale from East Van Brewing Company 8 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Hazy pale, big thick head. Estery, wonky-fruity aroma. Sweet, blandish...not sure what I should get from buckwheat but not necessarily getting it.

Tried on 27 Dec 2017 at 14:35

5.8

mcberko (47456) reviewed Bench Rest Buckwheat Ale from East Van Brewing Company 8 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

On tap at East Van, pours a hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma reveals the dry, crisp buckwheat upfront, without much else noticeable. Flavour is very much the same, with lots of laid back buckwheat. Just enough hops to dry this out and provide some bittering. Solid, but unexciting.

Tried from Draft on 30 Nov 2017 at 11:45

5.1

Ferris (26026) reviewed Bench Rest Buckwheat Ale from East Van Brewing Company 8 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Draft - Dirty wheat and some citrus, cloudy pale gold with a decent white head. Light banana and wheat.

Tried from Draft on 27 Nov 2017 at 21:13

5.5

fiulijn (28382) reviewed Bench Rest Buckwheat Ale from East Van Brewing Company 8 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Draught at the brewery
Cloudy blond color. Swampy yeast aroma, light, more common in North America Hefe than Europe, so probably it's the yeast strain. Dry, crispy, with a different touch from the buckwheat, finishing dry and with low bitterness.
Simple but refreshing.

Tried on 08 Nov 2017 at 14:29