Wellington Arkell Best Bitter

Brewed by: Wellington County Brewery Inc.
Brewed at: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Type: Session Ale
A/V 4%

First Impression
Session ale! Sounds like fun! Looks the part. Dressed in powder blue with a cartoony theme it manages to embody the serious intent of craft brewing with the light-hearted spirit of proper beer drinking. Fantastic colour for a light beer with a good head on its shoulders.

First Sip
A nice, light, yet impressively complex mouthful. So this is what is meant by session ale! You can enjoy drinking it and make a session of the exercise. I could get used to this sort of thing.

Halfway
Whereas I tend to appreciate brute force and ignorance in a beer I get the impression that this took a lighter touch to produce and yet I am enjoying this more than I could have expected. The trinity of brewing are adequately represented in this beer without the sledgehammer effect of more potent brews.

Bottoms Up
For the newbie Arkell Best Bitter offers a gentle introduction into full-flavoured beer as hops, malt and yeast share the spotlight. For the seasoned beer drinking enthusiast, this is a fine beer to to drink outdoors as less discerning individuals guzzle Mexican or American macrobrews while conducting the adult version of an Easter egg hunt for Titleists in the rough...

82/100