Wells Banana Bread Beer

I am no stranger to unique beers, but banana bread beer was new to me.  The banana flavor is mild, which, when it comes to beer I usually like a mild fruit flavor.  However, for a beer that is supposed to taste like banana bread, I was disappointed.  Not only was the banana flavor too mild, but there was none of the other flavors one would expect in banana bread, nuttiness: cinnamon, brown sugar.  What this beer lacks in the initial flavor, the aftertaste has a warm, comforting and rich feel and the banana flavor increases, if ever so slightly.

Had this beer been advertised as an ale with banana flavor, I would have no problem with it.  But if a beer says it tastes like banana bread, then it better taste like banana bread.

3/5