Loch Lomond Brewery Great White Beer Review.

Finally I've reached the end of my LIDL beer festival selection of beers, well for this festival anyway. Today we have Loch Lomond's Great White, which is a white IPA. I saved this one until last because it sounded the most interesting and a lot of the white beers I'd drank previously had a bit of a wheat beer twang to them, and I do love a wheat beer. So I had fairly high hopes for this one. Loch Lomond are a fairly new brewery from Dumbarton and I think I've only had one of their beers before the Lost in Mosaic. 

The first thing to say about Great White is that I love the can, I'm not really sure why I love it, but I think it looks great, so well done to the artist. It's a 440ml offering with a nice round 5% alcohol content making it fit quite neatly into the session ale category. I guess the other way of looking at the percentage is that it's a bit of a bland, been done a million times before number, but I'm going to stay positive for now. The beer is extremely lively so be careful when pouring as the head can get pretty huge, which actually got my hopes up even more for the beer as that's very much a wheat beer trait. 

The aroma is very similar to a wheat beer with quite a strong banana scent coming through to back up the generally wheaty goodness. This is a beer that looks great and smells great, I kind of wish I'd put it in my wheat beer glass, but where possible I'm trying to keep the reviews fair by pouring them all in the same glass, at the same slightly below room temperature just to keep consistency in my reviews. I do put some thought in to this you know!! ​

Having built this beer up in my head the concern is always that the taste isn't really going to match up, and sadly that's kind of what happened. Despite the smell, and the look, this tastes like a fairly standard IPA. Sure wheat and bananas are still the overriding tastes, but some other fruits start to get involved too which causes a bit of a mishmash with nothing really taking over to drive the senses. I actually wish Loch Lomond had just created a banana wheat beer, I think I'd have really enjoyed that.  All in all Great White from Loch Lomond Brewery is an overly lively IPA which looks great and smells great but tastes a little bit plain. I'll give Great White a 6/10 if you see it cheap pick one up, but don't go out of your way.