Brewery: Adnams
Beer: Kristal White
Style: Wheat Ale
ABV: 4.2%
Date: 8th April 2013
Venue: Ye Old Starre Inn, York (Pint)
This is a funny wheat beer this one. Closer to a Belgian Witbier than a Hefeweizen, but at the same time it’s not really applicable to that style either. Rather inconsequential taste, with standard citric notes coming through only briefly. Smells slightly too tart. Clear appearance for a wheat beer. Unusual but not particularly interesting.
Rating: 2 (Not Recommended)
Brewery: Bradfield
Beer: Farmers Stout
Style: Stout
ABV: 4.5%
Date: 7th April 2013
Venue: The Blue Bell, York (Pint)
Muddy black-brown appearance, quite a creamy texture for a stout. Slightly undefined sweetness makes it veer towards milk stout taste but there’s a bit of nuttiness in there too. Drinkable but fairly nondescript.
Rating: 3 (Worth a shot)
Brewery: Locher
Beer: Appenzeller Weizenbeer
Style: German Hefeweizen
ABV: 5.2%
Date: 29th March 2013
Venue: Restaurant Ried, Zermatt (Bottle)
Always on the look out for new wheat beers, and this one is pretty decent. A Swiss hefeweizen that comes in an appealing swingtop bottle. Smells quite bready and is very cloudy in a similar light way to Edelweiss or Weihenstephaner rather than the darker Schneider varieties. Little bit too sweet until the end when there is a fairly pleasant bitter aftertaste. Not bad, but not one to seek out if not in the area.
Rating: 3 (Worth a shot)
Brewery: Moorhouse
Beer: Black Cat
Style: Mild
ABV: 3.4%
Date: 22nd March 2013
Venue: The Tap, York (Pint)
It’s difficult to find a good mild a lot of the time but Black Cat is fairly common for the style so it was about time I tried it out. Deep auburn appearance with a white foamy head. Some nice burnt chocolatey aromas. Has a subtle fruitcake like flavour about it. Pleasant to drink.
Rating: 3.5 (Give it a try)
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