Banks's Silver Lining
Banks's Park Brewery

The fifth beer tasted by half-pint at The Queens, Hornsey, N. London, during its first-ever beer festival, featuring 14 British real ales~~ Gravity-dispensed. The beer note says: "Naturally coudy wheat beer with a proportion of malted wheat, as well as barley malt"--so this is a wheat beer?

A: bright amber hue, coming w/o any sign of a beer head, but the clarity is great.
S: a vanilla and sweet flowery note adds to a soothing pale malty theme with an orange-zesty edge... very light, with a layer of maltiness coming through the hops.
T: malted wheats dominates, very much in line with British wheat beers, yet added with a strong hint of Styrian-Goldings or German hops... I can't be sure; tangy, slightly tannic, and intensifyingly dryish hops prevail at the root of the tongue, leaving a salty-sweet wheatish aftertaste and more dryish, slightly herbal, impacts of hops, while the superbly-lingering bitterness prolongs the pleasant finish in intensity.
M&D: light-bodied, smoothly-textured, with a lingering bitter hoppy as well as soothingly bitter-sweet malty overtone... Easy-drinking, good quality, yet more in line with a golden bitter with an extra dose of malted wheats than a real hefe-weizen... I only wish it could be served just sli...ghtly cooler.