 Cybercat (421), Georgia, USA
Jun 24, 2008
I had to buy this beer because I LOVE bananas. When they called it a banana beer, they meant it.
Aroma is strong, and banana scent dominates. It pours a nice golden amber with a decent but not persistent head. Flavor is rich and very banana-y so it is rather like drinking a liquid banana - very distinctive. There is a fair amount of hop flavor and a touch of malt and yeast. Texture is smooth and pleasant, but just a little zingy.
Caution: Keep away from monkeys. :D
lithy (200), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Oct 6, 2008 bb 03/31/09. Clear orange-red color with a finger of lumpy off white head, nice retention no lacing. Aroma of thin malt and bananas. Light spicy yeastiness to give it a good breadiness. Taste is more bananas but nothing to give it a bready body dissapointing slight clove and yeasty spice.
grikmok (64), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Sep 30, 2008 Poured into an English pint glass to an amber coloured beer. Thick white head that quickly vaporized to just a thin covering. Aromas of plums and bananas. Initial taste of yeast followed by a slight banana flavor. The finish was a little disappointing; no body nor taste at all, sort of just hanging from the banana flavor. Interesting beer.
ALLOVATE (1127), Perth, Australia
Sep 26, 2008 From notes alone. Tasted October ’07
’Vibrant, sweet and finely pronounced aroma of fresh baked banana bread leaps from the glass - it certainly harnesses the quality well. A soft herbal hop note comes in, but a solventy tickle mars it from being too sumptuous and grounding. Pours a striking golden amber, translucent and short of carbonation. The head nothing to right home about; a thin, soapy pad, off-white and lasting. It starts pleasant in the mouth, but it quickly drowned by some nasty additions. Dull banana and caramel turns to a heavily buttery, slick, acridly tannic and drabby, light bodied, watery palate. The swallow is tangy yet drawn, luckily little sticks around. Makes you squirm with each mouthful. How could the aroma promise so much, the palate deliver so little. Not good at all!!’ (568ml, 13/12/07, The Beer Store Morley)
thornecb (1130), Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
Sep 15, 2008 Pours deep amber into an English pint. Pancake head recedes to skim surface. Over-ripe banana aromas. Crisp and clean upfront with a dry, sour banana peel finish.
chronictonic (360), Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, USA
Sep 14, 2008 Bottle - pours an orangish amber color with an off-white head. Aroma of bananas and some spices. Flavor is sweet, not as much banana flavor as the aroma hinted at. Strange mix of hops, banana flavors, sugars makes for an almost chemical like flavor.
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