Billabong Bavarian Wheat

Bottle, WABA beer dinner, Applecross resonable german wheat beer aromas, heavy on banana esters, lacking body and strange one dimensional synthetic mouthfeel and flavour.

Clear, coppery body with average white head. Slight clove on the nose as well as some banana. Fairly thin in body, clove and a bit of orange. Boring.

Special promotion batch at the Beer Store Morley.
Poured into a weizen glass, chilled from the fridge. Looks good - as all this brewer’s beers do - but not quite anything resembling a Kristall-weizen. It is a dull, medium gold with fine sparse carbonation, just enough to raise up a fluffy, white, pillowy head that retains quite well but doesn’t leave much evidence behind on the glass. Band-aid-like phenolics on the nose bounded in sweet, bananery esters, not too much excitement here. Quite thin but creamy on the palate. Banana flavour dominates, a little bubblegum peers in as some cloves and more band-aid phenols in back and into the fruity, short swallow. Everything is in low-gear and it comes across as the ’Redback’ of the Micro-brewery circuit. Yeast still in and kicking might ramp this up a notch. Too straightforward and crowd-pleasing. (0546, 33cL)