Baladin Isaac

Brewed by Le Baladin
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Piozzo, Italy

Serve in Tumbler, Weizen

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Pours a hazy dark golden yellow color that appears almost orange in the glass with golden banana colored hues when held to a light and a half finger fizzy white head that quickly settles into a lasting ring. Minimal lacing. Visible carbonation bubbling up. Sweet citrus aroma with hints of earthy, bready yeast, subtle spice and crisp light fruit. I was expecting more of a zesty peppery/coriander presence but it’s more grassy with hints of straw and apple. Pale malt. Medium bodied with more of a spicy character up front than the aroma suggests along with a crisp earthy hop presence. Slightly dry with hints of earthy grass and straw. Subtle bready yeast with slight alcohol sweetness along with hints of apple and pear. Very faint lemon peel/citrus presence toward the dry finish. Overall, this beer was really off for the style and just didn’t taste very good. Thin, kind of bland and not worth the hefty price tag. I really like Baladin a lot but this was a disappointment.

Purchased and sampled in Milan, Italy. Hazed Nectarine. Aroma of various spices, mostly coriander but also notes of caramel, butter, orange and apricot. Lovely. Glazed caramel and coriander all over the palate with superb light fruit flavors and balance in all ways. Pepper, vanilla and peach notes are present as well. The coriander taste in this beer was unlike anything I have ever tasted. This was a great white!

Bevuta a pasto in compagnia, mi ha fatto un’ottima impressione, ma purtroppo non sono riuscito a goderne più di due bicchieri. La ricomprerò e me la gusterò da solo, comunque per quel che ho potuto notare piacevolissima, molto dissetante ma tutt’altro che anonima.

Bottle. Hazy golden color with a white head. The taste is a citrus and spicy body with light fruity notes.

75cl bottle@HBF 2010. Pours cloudy pale yellow with a big head. Aroma is lemon and coriander. Flavor is very fruity, more spices and citrus. Served too warm. Sediments. Easy to drink, very enjoyable.

UPDATED: FEB 19, 2011 Bottle from Bullit. Strong sweet spicy aroma. Cloudy pale yellow colour. Complex light spicy flavour. Sweet aftertaste. Interesting. Comes in nice bottle

Orange pale color, medium bubbly. Yielded and sour scent; notes of exotic fruit like mango and kivi. Lightly sour taste and pepper mill. Much lively and pungent. Fresh and a lot little bitter. Extremely drinkable. An exotic juice slightly alcoholic.

Sweet aroma, with notes of apples and alcohol!??!. Hazy yellow body, small white head. Spicy flavor, quite refreshing.

Sampled from 0.75l bottle @ Beer Enthusiast release party. This one pours a heavy hazy almost muddy straw-golden body with a small quickly sidesticking off-white head. Really spicy on the aroma! Tons of coriander seeds, herbal grass and lots of sweetish wheat. Not bad - but extreme. It has a strange texture; oily but really fluffy? And, it has a nice average carbonation level. Strong on the flavors also, tons of coriander seeds, a bit yeasty with melon zest and it ends quite dry-ish in the mouth. A intense and quite special wit. Not bad. 23.04.2012

Cloudy orange - less yellow than most wits - with a small white head. Aroma has cloves, white pepper, chamomile. Taste has a little lemon sourness to go with sweet oranges and apricots, spices also include aniseed. Far too perfumed by the flowers for me, but the fruits are nice.