Troublette

This is a Belgian style wheat beer by La Caracole brewery, from Falmingoul. It is not sickly sweet and weighty as many of the current wheat beers on the market, and it is all the better for this.

The snail represents the Namur region of Belgium.
Photo - Paul Evans

This is an unfiltered beer which re-ferments in the bottle, consequently it is naturally carbonated.  The beer is an attractive, cloudy dark gold in colour when poured, with a white spritzy head, and has a buoyant citrus fruit aroma.

Photo - Paul Evans

The initial taste is also of citrus fruits, which becomes more tangy and parfumy, and then leads to a hoppy bitterness.  This is a lively beer, full of verve, which leaves a satisfyingly moreish, bitter-dry aftertaste.

This is one of the best wheat beers around.

Appearance: 8
Aroma: 8
Taste: 8

Overall: 24/30