Wychwood Brewery Old Devil Beer

Beer score: 7.3
Web site: Wychwood Brewery

Comes from Wychwood Brewery in Witney, Oxfordshire, England. Has an interesting label of a devil in a cemetery using a pitchfork to stab an angel. This has an amber ale quality with a touch of sweetness. Not an overly strong beer, so it could be enjoyed in large quantities. The labels would seem to make Wychwood brews popular for Halloween.

Wychwood Brewery Hobgoblin

Beer score: 7.1
Web site: Wychwood Brewery
A pretty bitter and wet lager-type drink. The bitterness is strong but is mostly gone by the time you've swallowed. A touch too harsh for folks who aren't regular beer tasters, but not a bad brew.

Wychwood Brewery Fiddler's Elbow

Beer score: 4.1
Web site: Wychwood Brewery
Wet with sort of a Colt 45/malt liquor flavor. Not a great beer, which is surprising because the Wychwood Brewery usually has some decent stuff.

Wurzburger hofbrau Pilsner

Beer score: 4.2
Web site: Wurzburger-Hofbrau
Comes from west Germany. Light and wet with a gentle honey sweetness. Nothing real special here.

Wild Goose Porter

Beer score: 5.8
Web site: Wild Goose Brewery
Has more fizz than I feel is necessary. In fact, the fizz lowers this brew's score quite a bit. Has a clean, sturdy maple/walnut sort of burnt molasses flavor.

Wild Goose India Pale Ale

Beer score: 5.4
Web site: Wild Goose Brewery
Taste is pretty bitter with just a hint of the fruity sourness most IPAs have. A little fizzy, even in the aftertaste. People who like bitter beers that go down a little rough will enjoy this.

Wild Goose Amber Ale

Beer score: 6.8
Web site: Wild Goose Brewery
Handcraft brewed in Cambridge, Maryland, by Wild Goose Brewery. Has a strong "red" flavor and the barest hint of carbonation. Worth drinking regularly for folks who have good taste in brews.

Whitbread Ale

Beer score: 6.6
Very traditional with smooth character, but not strong on flavor. Very drinkable but not much for tasting. This pale ale comes from London, England.

Wexford Irish Cream Ale Draught

Beer score: 4.1
Web site: Greene King
Has a soft head that melts in the mouth, but there's not a lot of flavor except a very distant sweetness that doesn't hang around long. Apparently the United States doesn't have a monopoly on cheap beers, but at least cheap English ales aren't full of carbonation.

West Virginia Brewing Company's Ned's Pale Ale

Beer score: 6.2
Weaker than I would have thought. Has a soft bitterness that gets stronger on the way down, but leaves the tongue quickly. Not a bad beer, but unfortunately this beer and its brewer are no longer with us.

West Virginia Brewing Company's Blackwater Stout

Beer score: 6.9
Very traditional burnt maple flavor; beer snobs will enjoy this. I first tried the West Virginia Brewing Company's fine brews at the annual Huntington (West Virginia) Museum of Art's Summer Sounds festival; there were plenty of great beers from many different brewpubs and breweries and some darn fine good music too. If you're interested, the West Virginia Brewing Company is in Morgantown, West Virginia. They offer brewery tours and they also have West Virginia wines. Update: So sorry. This company has closed its doors.

West Virginia Brewing Company's Blackberry Wheat

Beer score: 7.0
Quite light and smooth with the expected fruity smell and some fruity taste. Not something you want to swill, but goes well as a sipping or after-dinner beer. But, alas, this brewing company is no longer in existence.

West Virginia Brewing Company's Appalachian Ale

Beer score: 6.9
A little strong for an ale, but traditionalists will love this one. Nice and smooth. But, as seems to happen to way many decent breweries, this company is no longer in business.

Wernesgruner

Beer score: 3.9
Web site: Wernesgruner
This German pilsner tastes a little like Heineken what with its slight skunkiness (maybe it's the colored bottles). Wet, but a little flat. This stuff is made in accordance with the German purity law (which isn't a real law) that says beer must be made with only barley, hops, water and yeast.

Watneys Cream Stout

Beer score: 6.4
Not the heaviest stout around, but has a decent burnt maple taste. Medium-level stout drinkers can work their way up with this before moving on to thicker fare. Comes to us from the folks at Watney Truman Ltd. in London, England.

Watneys Red Barrel

Beer score: 5.1
A little too much carbonation. Decent and drinkable with a weak coppery taste. Some wetness. Despite coming from London, England, it's not much better than an American "red" beer or weak lager. This beer has been retired, which might be a good thing, though according to some of my Brit friends this beer had improved greatly over its taste 40 or so years ago. An interesting note about Watneys Red Barrel brew: It's actually mentioned in two Monty Python skits. I'll leave it to you to figure out which skits.

Warsteiner

Beer score: 3.6
Web site: Warsteiner
According to the bottle, this is Germany's Number 1 beer, but I sort of doubt it considering I don't hear much about this beer. But then again, despite what many beer drinkers say, I don't think Germany necessarily makes better beer than the U.S. This beer has way too much fizz with a weak taste like many German beers that are made for mass marketsing. It is wet, however, and will quench your thirst. In my experience, much better off the tap than from the bottle, so much so I'd add a couple of points to my beer score when drinking this from the keg.

Wallaby's Great White Wheat

Beer score: 6.0

An extremely smooth beer with a soft sweetness that you won't taste unless you're trying to. Non-snobs could drink this, but true snobs might find it interesting. A good drinking beer. But it no longer exists. The company went out of business. Had a Great White shark on the bottle's label to keep with the Australia theme, which looked cool.

Wallaby's Big Red Roo

Beer score: 6.0
A tad too much fizz, but has a nice amber flavor to it. Not overly special, but drinkable. A good beer for restaurants that serve beer with food. Yet another brew no longer available because the brewery no longer exists.

Wallaby's Ayers Rock

Beer score: 7.0

The markings on the bottles make you think this brewery is in Australia, but in fact this stuff was made by Wallaby's Brewing Co. of Westlake, Ohio. The brewery went out of business in 2001. Too bad. This particular beer is a pretty good pale ale with a soft bitterness that makes a smooth swallow.