Okells Maclir (Bottled)

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

Although this is a wheat beer it tastes more like a light bitter to me. Lacking the overpowering flavour that some wheat beers have it is a very refreshing but slightly delicate drink. Considering that it comes from the Isle of Man not a country you usually assoociate with this style this to my mind is an example of how refreshing a wheat beer can be.

Clear gold with huge, off-white head, very finely lacing. VERY nice nose with hops, lunaria , kafir leaf, wheat and grain sheaf, hay. Again a very fresh, hoppy (my guess are the NZL hops...); just bitter main taste, perfumey, and a soft, mineral water with sweetness and some salt. Light bodied, but nowhere empty - mineral water quality. Definitely one of the BEST wheatbeers I’ve ever tasted.

Bottled. Golden blond beer with lovely vanilla malt flavour. The large bold beige head was frozen in time and politely stepped aside to watch me drink the beer to the bottom. Not a wheat beer in the European sense more like a blond ale. Fruity with larger rounded palate. Very filling and very rewarding.

Tasted alongside Okells IPA, this beer was clearly a greater achievement. Grapefruit/lemon character from an unusual hop combination. Filtered, but with cask character. Being more used to Belgian witbier, I couldn’t really detect the wheat, but there again, I can’t in Hop Back Thunderstorm.

Apple-berry wheat malt aroma. Golden yellow color with giant white head and mild effervescence. Light honey malt and strong grassy hops finish. Nicely hoppy.

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.

500 ml bottle bought at Meny Liertoppen. A dense foamy white head rising from a crystal cear, pale golden, well carbonated body. Nice hoppy aroma; flowers, ripe citrus and freshly cut grass. Notes of honey. A light, dry and delicate malt body, a fine earthy and grassy bitterness with fruity undertones. Properly light-bodied. Fresh. MIld, lasting bitterness in the finish. Clean, crisp and quenching. Top notch Golden Ale.

Lemon, flowers and chalk in the aroma. Lemongrass flavor, well at least a grassy hopcharacter with lemon. Solid hoppy aftertaste. Well made witbier with a distinct character.