English Wheat Beer
Mad Squirrel

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From:
Mad Squirrel
 
England, United Kingdom
Style:
English Pale Ale
ABV:
4.5%
Score:
79
Avg:
3.08 | pDev: 0%
Reviews:
1
Ratings:
1
Status:
Retired
Rated:
May 23, 2006
Added:
May 20, 2006
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Reviewed by wl0307 from England

3.08/5  rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Tasted by half-pint at the Baxter's Court, a JDW pub in Hackney, North London.

A: (pale) amber hue, a thin foam dissipates fast, on top of a low carbonated body; looking unlike any kind of wheat beer at all...
S: a sour-salty-sweet yeasty aroma abounds, while a lease of pear juice, perry, and green apple-peel like fruity note plays the main role on the nose. Not bad, though slightly ill-structured and blurred.
T: sour-sweet yeasty flavour upfront (as in many wheat beers, it's a bit like Yakult~~); savoury, pear-ish and a lighter-than-pale-malt flavour develops at the back, quickly leading to a smooth but lingering bitter and tangy aftertaste, with a tannic touch and light-bodied wheatish feel in the end.
M&D: light, smooth, and refreshing on the mouthfeel. This beer is quite easy-drinking, with certain resemblance with Belgian or French witbier, but much more simplistic it is. O.K. performance.
May 23, 2006