Wells Banana Bread Beer

Against David's hesitation, I convinced him in the spirit of Sunday Funday to taste the Wells Banana Bread beer. Yes, you read that correctly. This definitely falls into the category of "that's an odd idea for a beer." As for what compelled this creation, I'm assuming the English brew master was very inebriated in his grandmother's kitchen one night, smelled the above mentioned scrumpet and between heavenly mouthfuls EUREKA! A beer flavor was born. Anyone else have an origin story?

In all it's glory

So why buy this beer? Because my year long experiment/adventure is the perfect time to try beers I would normally never drink. I have no desire to only drink the top rated Belgian beers (or whatever). The whole point is to explore the beer spectrum. So here we are. Banana Bread. In a glass. Random note, this reminds me a little of the end in ENVY when Ben Stiller and Jack Black create Flan in a tube, aka, 'Pocket Flan.' Yum.

The subject is an English Ale that is brewed with bananas, as well as having banana flavor added. Hm. After pouring, we caught wind of a distinct banana bread aroma. Smelled surprisingly good. I became a jest a bit excited, as I was secretly hoping to find a sleeper and prove David's doubts wrong. We took our first sip and....eeeeeeeeeeeck, not so good. An overwhelming malt taste with no goodness behind it. I drank this quickly and was quite thankful that my old friend Wild Turkey was present. We watched Mad Men together and it was glorious. Wells brewery, sorry but not sorry, you have earned a PEARL HARBOR rating.