Dr Sunshine’s Special Friendly
Gadds' The Ramsgate Brewery in Broadstairs, Kent, England 🏴
Wheat Ale Summer|
Score
6.38
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Crack some coriander seeds and they release a pungent, spicy aroma with surprising citrus notes of orange, lemon and lime. Add some dried orange peel (careful now, the pith is bitter) and chuck the lot in the copper just as you're finishing the boil on a pale wort (a wort containing 30% malted wheat and hopped to a low bitterness level). Throw armfuls of soft, fruity Perle hops in afterwards (perhaps some Saaz hops too), cool and ferment warm with an ale yeast.
Cask condition the beer and enjoy it, served cool, on warm, sultry afternoons when you should be at work. Watch the world go by. Relax.
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Cask condition the beer and enjoy it, served cool, on warm, sultry afternoons when you should be at work. Watch the world go by. Relax.
Feel better?
Good.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Cask by stillage at One Inn The Wood, Petts Wood on 25th April 2025. Crystal clear amber with the shallowest of foam and scant lacing. Tangy fruits and nutty malts aroma. Fruity and malty in-mouth with a finish of malt and bitterness. Light bodied with a zingy mouthfeel.
Tried
from Cask
at
One Inn The Wood
on 25 Apr 2025
at 18:45
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Ravensgate, Ramsgate, 03/06/22 (Ramsgate Bimble with Roger). Clear golden with a well presented lasting white head. Nose is grass, orange, pale malts, tangerine, wheaten bread. Taste comprises lemon tinged straw, melon, pale malts, light breads, orange zest. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close with mellow hop bitterness. Tidy enough cask affair.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Jun 2022
at 07:45
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Market Porter, Borough. Floral aroma, with wafts of apple juice. Bright gold. Thin sickly looking blotchy head. Light sour/bitter. A fruityness to it. Light bodied. Slick. Flat carbonation. Long finish. Pretty refreshing but not much going on. Drinkable. Bland.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Sep 2017
at 05:24
6/10
Tried
on 17 May 2017
at 13:43
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Wellington, Birmingham. Poured a clear straw colour with a frothy white head and some clingy lace. The aroma is yeast, light citrus. The flavour is light bitter with a creamy yeast, grainy, citrus light hop bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Jul 2016
at 11:14
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Cask. Appearance is orangey amber, no head at all. Mellow fruity aromas, orange and grapefruit. Taste- bitter hop undertones, malt, hint of zesty fruit. Mouthfeel is a bit watery.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Mar 2016
at 13:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask (backlog). Golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is wheat, citrus, mild toffee and nectar. Flavour is nectar, wheat, mild rubber with some mellow citrusy and floral bitter notes in it.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Aug 2015
at 06:13
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask-conditioned at the Yard, Bristol 3/4/2015. Golden in colour with a thin, white, head. Easy drinking pale ale, with some apricot and sweetish malts, before a moderately bitter finish. Fine.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Apr 2015
at 14:49
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
(Cask at Black Door, 20140625) The beer poured deep golden and clear. Its head was small, white and it lasted long. Aroma had toffee, grass and earth. Palate was soft and medium bodied with low carbonation. Flavours were malts, grass, toffee, sweetness and bitterness. Aftertaste was sweet,.acrid and bitter. A not so ordinary cask ale and one that wasn’t in my liking.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Jun 2014
at 10:08
6.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cycled into Oxford, Saturday 31st May 2014 had this at The Chequers. Pours light gold, excellent clarity, there is a slim white head atop, it is in very good condition. A nice little fuzzy bitterness, its refreshing and doesn’t taste like a standard wheat although you can just about get that it is, dry finish. Nice. A6 A5 T7 P3 Ov13 3.4
Tried
from Can
on 01 Jun 2014
at 01:47