Sail & Anchor None and Buckleys Wheat Beer

On the ill advice of the head brewer of S & A, I thought I’d give this a try anyway whilst perusing around in Freo. The heat of the day called for something atleast a little admirable, but this was actually the worst of the lot, and for a brewer to admit to a bad batch I’d say that was the only admirable part. Pity I couldn’t tell him that at the time. Poured a clear, dull medium gold with a well charged surge of carbonation raising to a big fluffy white crown that lasted. Aussie lager for looks, sadly very similar inside. Strange mix of metal shards, watery lemon and orange cordial, and Cooper’s Draught™ malt extract on the nose. Quite tannic, white-wine like and metallic in the mouth with a brush of DMS making like cooled boiled cabbages right through into the swallow. Aftertaste was gassy with more CO2 than flavour dissipating the fermentation nasties, and some tinny notes lingered in the mouth making me wish I’d ordered a Brass Monkey. This wasn’t good at all so in fairness it will be one for a re-rate, so for now there’s none and buckley’s of me touching another glass of it!

Dirty blond and hazy with a lacy head. Wheaty and slightly spicy, nice flavours of toasted wheat without being estery at all. Thirst quenching on this 30+ degree day!

Nice golden body with a medium size white head. No lacing. Not too fussed on the aroma, it reminds me like one of my early homebrews, dusty. Zesty and slightly spicy flavours (cloves) upfront with not a lot backing it up. Faint banana and lemon sherbet towards the end. Last weeks brewberry ale went down a lot easier.