Beer Blog & Beer Reviews

This bank holiday weekend has been a festival of fun and beer, after it all I have finally got some time to myself to enjoy a cold beer watch Dr. Doolittle on my own. Good Times.

St Austell's Clouded Yellow Wheat Beer

When Im winding down after a busy weekend I like to have a nice cooling wheat beer, so on this occasion I’ve reached for a bottle of St Austells Yellow Clouded to try for the first time.

The bottle has a nice butterfly on the front which is the “Clouded Yellow” from which the beer takes its name.

“The Clouded Yellow is a migratory butterfly from Europe which usually settles in the southern counties. When winter comes the adults either die or migrate south.”

St Austells Clouded Yellow can be poured either clouded (like the butterfly) or clear, if you pour it VERY slowly. Bening the kind of person I am; the more ‘cloud’ yeast the better is what I say.

So i’ve just chucked it in the glass. It might just me being ham fitsted without the bottle but it opens with a lot of fizz.

Im so glad it did fizz up though becuase I tried a little of the fizzy head and it tasted like fizzy sherbert. nice!

Poring this out it really is a fizzy little beer. It throths up quite a bit.

There isn’t much smell to it, which is supprising as there is lot of fiz coming off it. once you get a lead on the smell it is very bananna-ery and wheat/creamy.

The bananna, clove and vanilla falvors make Clouded Yellow a nice sweet drink, its got a nice medium mouth feel which is only very slightly viscous.

Imagine a cooked, spiced bananna blended into a glass with a good glug of regular wheat beer and a very thin slice of lemon. If i had never read the bottle or seen the website I would have said this is simething like a wheaty bananna cider beer [That is a Tecnical description ;o)].

Skip dessert with your next meal and drink one of these. Or, apparently its good with fish!