Grand Union English Wheat Beer
Grand Union Brewery, The

Tasted by a half-pint in late May 2007 at the Gardeners Arms, my favourite real ale haunt in Lewes, East Sussex.

A: dark yellowish straw in colour, coming with a wafer-thin off-white foam and low fizziness.
S: sweet pale malts and a lightly citric note come hand in hand, but pretty understated, backed by a floral hint of hops and nectar.
T: upfront comes a very light flavour of pale malts & wheat malts, balanced by elderflower-like floral & lemon-zesty hops; turning intensively dry with just moderate bitterness in the end. Not quite complex, but the flavour is fruity enough, a tad wheat-ish and dry-ish overall.
M&D: despite being served slightly warmer than the ideal cask temp., the mouthfeel is very clean with low carbonation, while the almost bone-dry palate ensures a high drinkability. This is more in line with English Blonde Bitter (with lots of wheats, of course), or, the English version of Wheat Ale; since neither is listed as a separate category here, I submit it here as a Bitter then.