Well.....I guess we should drink!

So this is sort of like one of life's paradoxes: did I start this just to give me a reason to drink this beer that's been sitting in my refridgerator for a year; or did I choose this beer because I needed something strange for the first review?  It doesn't matter.  Here is Wells Banana Bread beer.

Wells and Young's website describes it: 
"This unique brew (Alc 5.2% vol) combines all the traditional qualities and style of a Charles Wells bitter with the subtle flavour of banana. Its flavour unfolds with a sensual sparkle and a smart crispness, which balances its aroma perfectly. Tropically fruity; its ripe banana flavour, emphasised by a hint of bitterness, comes from the addition of real fair trade bananas and finishes with an emphatic, steely dryness."
The beer has a sharp amber color, pours to a medium head and I must say has a very strong aroma of banana, almost so much it's uncomfortable.  The banana doesn't really translate heavily into the actual flavor of the beer however.  I mean it tastes about as much like banana as drinking any ale while standing in your grandmother's kitchen while she's baking a banana bread.  The hint of fruit that you do get definitely helps cut through the hoppiness (it's a word....sort of) of the beer, making it smooth and actually pretty pleasant.  All that being said, I really went in expecting to hate anything called banana bread beer but I actually liked the smoothness and subtle hint of fruit. 
Find it and try it!