Bellevaux Blanche

Brewed by Brasserie de Bellevaux
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Malmedy, Belgium

Serve in Tumbler, Weizen

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Bottle (courtesy of Bierkrug). Lemon peel, orange. coriander, and light malt aroma. Hazy pale yellow color with moderate head. Slightly sweet lemon/orange, coriander, and wheat malt flavor. Very nice body. An excellent witbier.

(Bottled, BBE 07/2011) Opaque yellow with a small, vanishing head. Strongly spicy coriander-gingery-lemony nose. Flavor is also very spicy and lemony with ginger and coriander dominating, but also some wheaty maltiness present towards the drying finish. Medium body, lightly fizzy but balanced carbonation. A huge amount of aroma and flavor packed in a 4.8% witbier, without resorting to American hops or radical overspicing. The flavor is on the edge with the spiciness, but manages to remain balanced. After sampling the Brune, Blonde and this, I’m really beginning to love this brewery! 5345

Bottle, 33 cl. (bought @ Willems) Yesterday at home. Hazy golden color with white head. Aroma hops, coriander, bit spice. Medium body. Taste like wheat, coriander, little hops, spices, citrus-lemon @ the end. Good.

330 ml bottle picked up in Belguim and had at home in Germany. Pours a pale yellow hazy color with a short creamy head. The aroma has spice, yeast and citrus. The aroma is top class. The flavor is light sweetness, coriander, yeast and citrus, The palate is mostly lime. A good Wit, but thin.

This beer pours a pies yellow with a thin white head. The aromas are lemon zest, Orange peel and yeast. The mouthfeel is slightly sticky and sweet. Cheers!

Bottle from Dranken Geers. Pale gold, cloudy, with thick white head. Lemony, wheaty, wit aroma. I’ve always had a soft spot for Belgian wits. This one has a certain personality and good balance of the requisite aromas and flavours. a little soap, but good lemon and very good wheat malt body. Decent sharp lemon on finish. Ratehr well made and tasty.

Nice yeasty wit - modest floral citrus notes, make this an interesting non-pasteurised Walloon companion piece to Hoegaarden.

Bottle. Pale and unhazy until you chuck the bits in, under a tight snowy head. Aroma of lemon barley, rind, jelly, dusty spice. Mouth lemon meringue and zest, Robinson’s (barley squash), pepper. Not too perfumey, just a dip of biscuit. Rounded, tasty witbier. I like this brewery.

Fully hazy dark golden beer with extremely dense, snowwhite head. Very - no: SUPERB - nose with some corianderlike spices but also great fresh hops, even c-hopslike, ending on orangepeel or -marmalade. Much less uplifting taste, perfumey, but not very hoppy or spicey, but rather soapy. Finish is a bit lemony. Slick (wheat), light to medium bodied. The nose brought me in heaven, the taste brought me back on earth. OK, certainly for such a new brewery.

(33cl bottle) Hazy, yellow-golden colour with a medium-sized foamy white head. Sweet and slightly acidic, distinctively citrus- and lemon-fruity, zesty aroma with a good wheat-character and a moderately coriander-spicy background. Sweet flavour with an acidic edge, light bodied with a lively carbonated mouthfeel. Wheaty and yeasty-fruity taste with primary notes of citrus, backed by blossom-like flowery notes towards the mildly sweet and slightly sourish finish, fortunately with a rather restrained note of coriander. A balanced and refreshing Witbeer (16.III.09).