The Mash Collective Amasia Rumweizen

The first beer from that coven of crafty brewers, the Mash Collective.

Otherwise known as another beer from Stone & Wood essentially - just these ones tend to be more, well, inventive.

True to form this first beer is a rumweizen, made with molasses and rum thrown in. It's pretty attractive looking but doesn't generate a great deal of head on the pour and appears a little oily, possibly due to the additives.

The aroma leaves no secrets as to a certain wheat-based heritage, quite bitey and inviting. Taste wise it does manage to generate the banana and rum notes they were going for. I didn't encounter much molasses before it rounds off with a spirit-like warming conclusion which hits cleanly and disippates without lingering.

It's an interesting experiment this and seems to have come together pretty well with no real out of place notes. Would I drink it all the time though? Probably not. 6.0