Okells Maclir (Bottled)

Brewed by Okells
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Douglas, Isle of Man

500ml bottle (Gallows Bird, Espoo) Very primising hoppy aroma, clean and crisp, but taste doesn’t deliver the full English bitter taste. Several fruits on the nose, a bit thin on the tongue.

(Bottle) pours clear golden. Grainy, rather sweet wheaty aroma with notes of citrus and green apples. Light wheaty and medium sweet flavour with notes of citrus, apples and maybe a very small touch of banana. Light spicy. Light dry finish. Light body.

Soapy, dishwasher nose. Some yeast, and german pils style hoppiness. Slightly cloudy, peachy, even pinkish orange. Frothy head, like a dishwater, but turns smoother later leaving lace. Very bitter and fresh. Hoppy. Grapefruit juice. Smooth mouthfeel and prickly smooth carb. Wouldn’t have recognized this as a wheat beer (is it really?) unless it didn’t say so in the label. Not bad at all, yet not a wheat beer as I know them. Atleast it was fun to rate!

A golden beer with a good white and persistent head. The aroma is fruity hoppy (orange and grapefruit), and a little "soapy". The flavour is hoppy, with a lingering long bitter finish. A little wheaty. Refreshing and not so bad.

courtesy of oh6gdx - pours a pale hazy amber colour leaving almost no foam; a decent aromatic hoppiness with notes of cream and flowers; initially rounded malt profile, moderately sweet, some late harshness probably due to the wheat used; dry and bitter but quite short finish - not bad

Bottled. Light and fading head. Clear yellow/orange color, much fraught, hazy and with optimal fizz. Not a lot decided aroma but with notes of hop and dried malts indeed pleasant. Much English taste, notes of wood, resin, burn malt, cortex. Indeed remarkable bitter and alcohol... very balanced. Slow final.
Thanks to mabjork for this beer.

Bottled. An orange coloured beer with no head. The aroma is nicely hoppy with good orange notes presumably from the US hops of the seven different ones apparently in there. The taste has good hoppiness as well, but there is a little harshness in the finish detracting from what could be a really good beer. The wheat which is proclaimed on the label is just about noticeable but no way could this be described as a wheat beer.

Bottle. Peachy-golden color with faint head. Sweet and caramelly aroma with honey and Goldings hops. Too carbonated with sharp palate. Some sweet maltiness and caramelly Goldings hops in the flavor changing quickly into bitterness. Quite simple and has no sign of wheat or the complex hop mixture.