Samboy over here has given me a couple of interesting beers already, so as I stood there parched in front of the refrigerator the words 'Summer Ale' spoke to me on a big level. I was after something light, fresh and thirst quenching but with some flavour in it's back pocket.
Nail head, meet hammer.
This American style Pale Wheat Ale is criminally easy to drink. The body is light and crisp, with distinct flavours of lemon zest and sweet malts. The bitternes of the zest makes it sadistically refreshing in the same way that homemade lemonade is. Hits the spot, but then bitterly starves you in to wanting more.
It also apparently contains 'grains of paradise'... a rare African pepper first used in the 13th century. Grains of paradise hey? Sounds like something a wealthy relic hunter would try and track down on an action packed adventure across the globe. Indiana Jones and the Grains of Paradise.
I wouldn't put it past George Lucas.
This is by no stretch an amazing beer, but if you are thirsty and the sun is beating down on you it probably does feel like paradise in a bottle. Very basic, but shows what can be done with a straight forward, light, summer beer. There's no excuse to spend your life drinking Coronas while these sort of beers are in existence.
7.5/10
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