Friday, February 14, 2014

Wells Banana Bread Beer

I keep seeing Wells Banana Bread Beer all over the place near me, but I had some reservations about trying it -- it seemed like a love it or hate it kind of beer.  But, when I went out for dinner with my husband and a friend of ours, it was on tap at the restaurant, so I decided to gopher it:

Vittles:
Fruit Beer
5.2% abv

Score:
Appearance: 7/10
Aroma: 20/25
Taste: 35/40
Mouthfeel: 7/10
Style: 5/5
Drinkability: 8/10
Overall: 82/100

Impression:
I can never get a decent pour when I go out for drinks -- there's almost never any head on the beer by the time it gets to my table.  I'm pretty sure it's at least partly due to the fact that they use detergent to clean the glasses (don't get me wrong, I prefer the glasses I share with strangers to be as sanitized as possible), and surfactants do detract from the head formation and retention, so the beer's almost never "pretty."  Anyway, the aroma delivers exactly what you'd expect from a banana bread beer -- heaps of banana, bread, yeast, and a warm nuttiness in the background.  The flavors match the aroma almost exactly, but the nuttiness, caramel, and yeasty-breadiness are more apparent on the tongue than in the nose.  It's fairly sweet but nicely dodges the cloying bullet.  I found my beer to be a little under-carbonated, but that could be due to the bar that served it rather than an inherent fault of the beer itself.  I'd like to try this one again, maybe from a bottle so I can compare.

Cheers!

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