Weird Beard - Mariana Trench

The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on Earth, how Weird Beard translate that into beer is odd indeed. I always imagined the deepest point of the earth to be rather dark, rather dangerous and (because of the multiple atmospheres of pressure) pretty damn heavy. This pours like a dreamy pale ale with a white, fluffy, finger and a half of head that looks about as appealing and inviting as a welcome mat made of sunshine and boobs. It's a little murky due to the bottle conditioning but this amber hued beauty looks, for all intents and purposes, to be a joyous treat for a lovely summer day. It sucks that it's Winter but I never was a stickler for seasonality anyway.

The hoppy aroma as like a mole. Like a mole? Yes, like a mole. It burrows under you and then hits you like a freakin' ninja... Which is why moles always wear black... Ninjas. It's that sweetly subtle hoppyness too, not a gut punch of mega-bitter-death smell, which suits the beer rather well.

The big initial bitterness balances out into a sweet, light, wheat flavour that may or may not be in there, which reminds me of harvest festivals as a child. There's a round citric tang that never pinches you like some beers do, this kitty purrs like a Persian and nibbles more than it does bite. I could drink this for days, pass out, do it again and watch those days turn into months and those months turn into years. One day you'll find me on a man made mountain of Mariana Trench bottles, all empty, each once containing something on which I once sustained myself. At the top I would be a disgusting, bloated mess that once upon a time represented an actual human being... But I would be happy...

If it was Mariana Trench.

Food Suggestion: Pizza is the best food ever, right? Of course it is. Get one of those. Your favourite kind with all your favourite things, whatever they may be. Get that, drink this, live forever in a state of woozy joy.

Drink this if you like: If you like Gamma Ray by Beavertown then you'd probably get on well with this, it's more subtle and slightly more aromatic but it is as thirst quenching and deeply satisfying as the B-Town Ray.