Magificent Seven #4: Nutty Niki

Moor Beer Company
4.5%
www.moorbeer.co.uk

If it was ordered from a menu with more pages than an LA drug-dealer during the Oscars; if it came in a slender bottle wrapped in waxed paper and accompanied by a novelty glass; if it wasn’t called Nutty Niki… If it was, did and wasn’t then this beer would be huge. But it isn’t because, instead of being the product of monastic Belgian brothers, this wheat beer was created by a Californian who has relocated to a life on the Somerset levels. So while this hazy wit hints at Hoegarten, its English hops give it a life and a freshness beyond the boldness of the crushed coriander seeds, whole nutmegs and giant cinnamon quills. It would be a wonderful summer pint – if Moor didn’t brew it for winter only.