4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from SH Jones Wines, Leamington, shared round The Jenners. Authentic looks and spritz; pineapple hazy with a tall rocky head. Enticing, woodsy, ester-laden aroma with pithy, lemon barley and botanical G+T notes as well as the expected banana and clove. Fresh and sparkling with clean clove, orange and mellow banana candy spiciness. Uncommonly good English wheat beer- possibly the best UK attempt at a hefe I’ve tasted.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap, The Jam Factory, Oxford. Hazy leather/copper, persistent white cap of head. Fresh mint hop aroma, very light clove, a bit of bread. Warm and spritzy on the tongue, a nice cinnamon toasty finish. A surprisingly robust hop backbone. This is a beer drinkers wheat, not a training-wheels wheat. Nicely done.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle from Bellingers, Jet Garage, Grove, Nr Wantage, Oxon consumed 04-01-10 Pours cloudy warm gold/orange, white head rapidly departed. Aroma is citric with cereal. Taste is quite soft cereal, wheaty and with a little weakend lemon squash. As mentioned many a time before I’m not a big fan of wheat beers but this isn’t bad at all A6 A3 F7 P4 Ov13 3.3
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draught@Lamb And Flag, Oxford. Golden colour, small off-white head. Aroma is wheat, banana, some mild yeast as well as caramel. Flavour is wheat, yeast, some bananas, mild fruity notes as well as some slight hay.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Keg at the Jolly Anglers, Reading. Pours an attractive, natural looking, cloudy pale straw with a voluminous dense white head; the texture is creamy, light and refreshing with flavours of wheat and coriander; the finish is clean and fresh with just a hint of banana. An excellent, light, clean, refreshing, modern, example of the style.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Draught at Isis Farmhouse, Oxford, England.
Hazy yellow colour with small white creamy head.
Some sourness in aroma. Flavour is apple, yeast, sourness and wheat.
Enjoyable dryish sourish wheat.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
500ml bottle from Utobeer. Very hazy gold colour with very thin head. Earthy aroma. Not much of a wheat beer to be honest. Some cereal on the finish. Its no german hefeweisse. The rest of it is alright though. Some nice lemon and a bit of sting on the finish. Quite drinkable.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
50 cL bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is fruity and mild spiced to a wheaty background. Citric, spiced and wheaty. Subdued estery - rather phenolic. Ends dry and citric.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle at Papsø.
Hazy golden coloured with a huge white head.
Fruity aroma of citrus and spices with notes of yeast.
Fruity flavour of citrus and spices with notes of yeast.
Spicy finish.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Cloudy yellow - white head. Citrus, coriander notes, banana, fruity, wheaty, light bubblegum, light hoppy, plain.
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