Wagamama Jubel Peach Lager

Wagamama serves jubel peach lager at £5.40, the beer list's quiet tactical weapon: a lager cut with peach, sweet where beer is usually bitter, and precisely for that reason the best bottle in the building against serious heat. Published price, vegan and gluten free marked, the list's only bottle with both.

Jubel built its name on alpine style fruit cut lager, and the peach here is genuine flavour rather than syrup gesture. Sweetness manages capsaicin where bitterness and bubbles fail, which makes this the bottle the buldak and firecracker pages of this site keep recommending; it is drink pairing as first aid.

Beyond the heat argument it suits summer tables and lager drinkers bored of the standard, and the gluten free marking makes it the coeliac table's one beer. Sceptics call fruit lager a compromise until the fire wings arrive, at which point they call it genius.