Real Smiler

Clearwater Brewery in Bideford, Devon, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Golden / Blonde Ale Regular

Score

6.20

ABV: 3.7%

IBU: -

Ticks: 16

Golden, crisp and hoppy, a lovely nose of fresh cut apples and melon. Faint velvety bubble and a light biscuit taste with the most delicate of tannins.

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6.3

Olut (22183) reviewed Real Smiler from Clearwater Brewery 6 months ago

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Isle Of Wight Holiday Beer#53. Had this once before but it was skunky then. Good experience this time, golden, watery but ok, hoppy-sweet, easy. Gravity dispensed.

Tried from Cask at The Ale House on 09 Sep 2025 at 18:11

eurosoba (18828) ticked Real Smiler from Clearwater Brewery 3 years ago

22/02/2011. COEUR DE LION, 17 Northumberland Place, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (PUNCH)

Tried on 19 Nov 2022 at 08:34

6.1

Grumbo (24737) reviewed Real Smiler from Clearwater Brewery 3 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

16/6/2022. Cask at the 30th East Anglian Beer & Cider Festival, Bury St Edmunds. Pours clear golden amber with minimal off-white bubbly head. Aroma of caramel, vanilla, malt, stewed fruit, slight butter notes. Medium sweetness, light to moderate bitterness and body. Oily and watery, prickly carbonation. Fair.

Tried from Cask on 19 Jul 2022 at 17:13

SHIG (13887) reviewed Real Smiler from Clearwater Brewery 3 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask thanks to Grumbo: Poured a hazy yellow bright, white head. Aroma is buttery, malty, fruity. Taste is malty grain, buttery, caramel, drying finish.

Tried from Cask on 17 Jun 2022 at 12:32

6.1

berkshirejohn (10300) reviewed Real Smiler from Clearwater Brewery 10 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

50cl bottle picked up at a local garden centre. Pale amber with a cream head and quite heavy carbonation; aroma of crisp green apples; soft biscuity taste, but quite gassy; lightly bitter, with a crisp refreshing finish. Not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Dec 2015 at 06:08

WingmanWillis (38720) ticked Real Smiler from Clearwater Brewery 11 years ago

Tried on 08 Mar 2015 at 14:32

4.9

BlackHaddock (17491) reviewed Real Smiler from Clearwater Brewery 11 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

500ml bottle: BBE Jul 15. Poured into an ’Old Speckled Hen’ vase shaped pint glass at home during a ’random tasting afternoon’ with myself on 10th Jan 15. Dull, but clear golden body with a flat, thin white scummy head. Not a lot of an aroma, mild hop traces but nothing worthy of note. The taste was also light in nature with mini hop flavours, again not a lot going on. Refreshing enough with a tropical fruitness as it warmed a little in the glass. Fairly dry finish but overall a beer lacking in depth and flavour.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jan 2015 at 09:07

5.5

Drebus (8640) reviewed Real Smiler from Clearwater Brewery 11 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle @ Joes. Clear golden colour with a small off-white head. Smells sweet, caramel, toffee, butter, boterbabbelaar, butterscotch. Tastes sweet, caramel, butterscotch, butter. Thin body, soft carbo.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Sep 2014 at 12:32

6.3

Benzai (24654) reviewed Real Smiler from Clearwater Brewery 11 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle @ home. Clear golden color, medium sized white head. Smell and taste malts, lightly hops, lightly bitter, lightly grains and a bit hay. Average body and carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Aug 2014 at 07:54

7.2

Quack-Duck (11942) reviewed Real Smiler from Clearwater Brewery 12 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

bottle from Tuckers Maltings. Golden colour, white head. Tropical fruit in nose and flavour, shy hoppy finish. Delicious.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Dec 2013 at 14:39