Brussels White

very very pale yellow, looks quite wattery. Aroma is quite limp, touches of lemon, and some faint corriander, but a big note of mealy, grainy wheat. The flavor on the other hand, is awful, this had to be an off bottle. Its getting a grainy, meally straight up catfood flavor. Stick your nose into a can of cheap catfood, and that is what i’m tasting.

Overall, you can’t go wrong with Witbier, but this one fell short in comparison to others I have tried, including Canadian brewed wits. Tasted watery and lacked much aroma. Not bad by any means, but I wasn’t very impressed.

Bouteille de 330ml acheté au LCBO de Rideau et King Edward (Ottawa), le 20/9/08. Blonde blanchie peu claire, peu de collet. Arome de de blé malté légé, des petites notes d’agrumes. Goût de blé peu imposant, quelque notes de coriandes et d’écorce d’orange, faiblement malté. Une blanche beilge trop simple avec un peu de saveur, facile à boire mais très loin d’être intéressant!

Bottle pours a semi hazed light gold Witbier in the glass with a decent enough frothy cap that leaves excellent soapy lace on the glass. Aroma may turn some off as the orange peel is strong but it is balanced by a crisp biscuity tone and some light spice.

Bottle - 330ml. Hazy blond body with good carbonation and an instant-fading white bubbly head. Decent maltyèhoppy aroma with yeasty, grassy, and citrusy hints. Taste is well balanced, but lacks some fruitiness. It ends with a solid malty/hoppy finish. Average Witbier.

Bottle. Pours yellow/white, a bit like cheap cloudy after-church apple juice, with a fast disappearing head. I smell heavy lemon, hard candy, a bit of sourness. The mouthfeel is thin and carbonation seems light. The flavour is brief: lemon rind, orange and something a bit like what cardboard might taste like, papery, with a bit of sour apple.

330ml bottle, 5.5% a/v Pours an unusual gold colour, almost orangey, very colourful and effervescent. The aroma is bananas, cloves, orange, grapefruit and a bit of bubblegum. The taste is fairly plain to be honest, doesnt live up to the aroma. Still good but somewhat bland. Aftertaste is neat, much of the flavours that are lacking in the first sips. Overall a decent white, but make it a little more tasteful please!

330ml from lcbo. Bottle 33cl LCBO. APPEARANCE Semi-hazy yellow-blonde pour with fine carb & fine small dense head that swirls on glass leaving a silky trace. AROMA sweet fresh and open, faint top notes of cola and sarsaparilla, phenols of clove, pepper, esters of ripening pear, light caramelly malt. TASTE peppery-feeling clove notes, pear and very ripe pale fruit, swells a beautiful middle note of lemon marmalade, sweet wheat malt, a subtle white-wine alcohol presence, finish semi-sweet with some bitter hops. Lively mouth-dancing feel... a refreshing pale Belgian with just a bit of a dark side.