Okells Summer Storm

Brewed by Okells
Style: Wheat Ale
Douglas, Isle of Man

[Cask at GBBF 2005] An orange beer with a small orange head. The aroma is sweet malty with light caramel notes. The flavor is sweet and with a hoppy dry end - my guess is Goldings hops. The body is thin.

Cask (handpump) @ The Corner House, B3, Birmingham. Clear light yellow color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate hoppy, flowers, grass, moderate yeasty, orange, notes of cinnamon. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat.

Light amber; light body, vaguely lemony; slightly malty in the back; drinkable, but light. While I was enjoying this a cat came by. Bastard had a tail. I couldn’t have been more disappointed. Sampled at the pub at the end of the Manx Electric Railway station in Laxey.

1. Cask Stillage at the GBBF, Kensington Olympia 02/08/2001 Golden coloured slightly gassy aroma. Full hop finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the Bar Fringe, Manchester 18/07/2005 Golden coloured fruity and hoppy. Crisp slightly dry lasting malt finish.

Cask at GBBF Pale gold colour, bit of hay in the aroma. Hops are dominant which increase in flavour as the beer goes on. As we had so many of this style of beer it can become difficult to distinguish but this one I did like and found it very drinkable

Bon Accord. Aroma is grassy, hints of citrus lemon, very fresh. Taste has light wheatyness to it, again very clean and fresh.

Cask@GBBF 05’. Boring golden ale. Grainy texture, sweetish, malty, not much flavour, can’t really say too much about it. Dull.

Cask Conditioned at Charlbury Beer Festival. Pale straw coloured with thin short head. Strange wheat beer to me, overwhelmingly caramel with some vanilla. Interesting enough but a little odd.