Barley Island Sheet Metal Blonde

Brewed by Barley Island Brewing
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Noblesville, Indiana USA

Serve in Tumbler, Weizen

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Hazy medium gold with a bright white head. Sweet banana bread, with some almonds. This is a pleasant, sweet smelling brew. The taste is typical wit with some flat Sprite and corriander notes. There is a little bit of bread crust with some bananas in the finish. A decent wit, but pretty boring.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy pale gold with a thin white head. Aroma is full of wheat and yeast notes as well as a strong metallic aroma. Flavor is weak with a bit of wheat, a bit of citrus and yeast.

This bottled brew poured a small sized head of fine to medium sized white colored bubbles that left behind an unnoted lacing. The body contained soft carbonation, was transparent and yellow orange in color. Its aroma contained notes of wheat. Its mouth feel is initially tingly soft and dry. Its flavor contained wheat notes.

Draft from Scotty’s Brewhouse in downtown Indianapolis. Pours hazy gold with a medium white head. Aroma of citrus, spice, clove. Flavor is spice, floral, light hops, citrus- agree with others that the balance is off and something isn’t quite right. But it’s not bad. Light mouthfeel.

Hazy yellow color with a medium head. A little wheat and orange in the aroma with a typical yeasty spice. Slightly soured wheat taste. Very dry and yeast-laden finish.

Bottle. Aroma of heavy wheat with grain and honey. Lesser notes of lemon and spice, but not coriander - nutmeg? Smell of dust from the carpet. Opaque cloudy lemon color with a short white head. Bitter clove much stronger in the mouth, and yes, reminds of nutmeg. Generic wit notes. Medium body with a touch of prickling, smooth yeasty aftertaste. Decent, but I can’t get behind this combination of flavors.

A nice looking wheat. Aroma offers coriander but not a lot more. First sip features a little zing on the back of the throat but that lasts for only a couple of sips. It settles on the tip of the tongue. Overall it is a creamy mouthfeel. Flavor is full of clove and spices. Sweet citrus fruit is also easily noticeable. An interesting and unique wheat.

Bottle. Small white head, fair lacing, carbonated, Malty, sweet, citrusy, banana, orange, and some spicy notes. Flavor was sweet, tart, spicy, malty, and somewhat dry. Smooth and somewhat dry mouthfeel. Very drinkable IMO. Worth a try!

Pours blonde with a small white head that leaves fairly quickly. The aroma has a rich quality either from the white or orange - it doesn’t list orange on the label, but it seems to have some. Medium / light body with some sharp carbonation. Flavor starts with nectarine flavor that has some plastic to it. The some spiciness enters that goes through to the finish. There is also some light astringency that comes through. Not a bad beer, but much better of the style out there.

(22 oz bottle: Obtained in trade with atpayne, thanks Adam!) For a Belgian style wheat ale, this beer tastes awfully sweet and has a very clear presence of clove. The usual assortment of witbier flavors, the wheat, the coriander, the orange peel are all here, but lag behind the sweetness and the clove by a fair amount. There is a slight bitterness extending the finish, helping to offset the sweetness. The nose still shows plenty of clove, but is less sweet and more balanced, with funk and wheat having more interplay with the spices. Light-medium bodied, gently carbonated, soft and easy on the palate. Half an inch of white, tightly-knit head sits atop the hazy, light golden body. Highly unusual for the style, sweet, clovy, minimizing the coriander, it seems like a girlie version of witbier, no offense to the girls who like a more classic examples of the style. That said, it’s still pleasant enough to be an easy quaffer.