Natural Selection Anorak

Natural Selection
Brewed at Stewart (UK)
Style: Wheat Ale
Edinburgh, Scotland

Serve in Shaker, Weizen

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Bottle from from Spirited Wines. Hazy amber yellow colour, not much head. Tropical fruit wheat & malt aroma. Flowery resin grain flavour. Sour aftertaste. Unusual but not great.

Bottle 500ml.

[ Trade by cgarvieuk ]. Unclear - hazy matt medium orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, light to moderate hoppy, moderate yeasty, paper, fruity. Flavour is moderate sweet with a average to long duration, citrus, fruity, wheat, yeast. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120812]

Bottled@chriso. Yellowish golden hazy colour, small white head. Aroma is wheat, citrus, mild fruityness and some mild honeylike notes. Flavour is wheat, fruits, honey and some mild herbal notes. Refreshing.

AROMA: bread, cereal, hay, spruce, dough, APPEARANCE: cloudy, pale, frothy to no head at all TASTE: lightly sour, medium bitterness, PALATE: light body, thin feel, flat, bitter, abrupt OVERALL: interesting wheat bear, very little citrus, more on the malty side, bit too flat (from bottle) and thin.

Cask @ Bow Bar 200712
Light amber, very hazy, creamy white head, some lacing
Aroma - Very soft citrus hops and pale malt background
Taste - Really soft flavours here of citrus fruits, light malts, easy drinking, hint of bitter zest
Palate - Soft carb, medium body, fairly acidic palate, quite creamy. Finish as main flavour with a slight hint of biscuity cereal.
Overall - Very easy drinking for the abv - bit more tweaking to add more fruit flavour will do the trick with this one

Keg The Rake London 17/07/12. A very hazy yellow coloured beer with a whitish head and lace. Quite a sharp wheat beer. Acidic notes in the nose. Wheaty flavours with lemon. Pretty bitter. Keggy cold. OK no more.

Bottle from Oddbins. Pours a cloudy blonde colour with a decent, lasting white head. Aroma of lemon, banana, pine and alcohol. A similar chewy banana flavour upfront again with a little soapy pithy quality also. Moderate carbonation and a chewy mouth-feel. I wish I had tried the Snozberry. I like it.

Pours cloudy with a light head. Well hopped with a pleasant bitter after taste. A great example of student brewing from the guys at Herriot watt's brewing and distilling department. --- a mobile beer rating

Bottle. Pours cloudy yellow ith a small white head. Quite flat and thin. Aroma is weak lemon with some herbs. Flavour is dusty lemons. I agree with the other raters that this is more of a Wit than a hefe.

Cask by handpump at Stockbridge Tap, Edinburgh (11 Jul 12) - cloudy golden ale, thick head, fruity hop aroma, very sweet and full bodied, excellent balance between malt and hops, very easy and pleasing to drink