Celtika Blanche

Formerly brewed at Brasserie Celtik (formerly: Douar Men)
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Cléguérec, France

Serve in Tumbler, Weizen

Bottled. Cloudy golden, average head. Lemony nose. Sweet, yet with some tart freshening acidity. Evident wheat malt character and some herbal spices. Pleasant soft mouthfeel. Perhaps a bit fruity and unclean.

Hazy light blond color. Fresh and sour aroma, citrus fruits. Too dry and sour, light mouthfeel; citrus fruits; light cork (the bottle has a cap). Aggressive, quite unpleasant.

(Bottle) Pours a lightly cloudy golden body with a small white head. Aroma of wheat, light citrus, and light herbs. Flavor of malt, citrus, and light banana. Mild spiciness for a wit bier.

(750ml bottle, Celtika White Beer) Large off-white head that recedes slowly, revealing a cloudy lemon yellow body. Aroma is moderately sweet, candied orange, some lemon, light clove. Taste is medium sweet, lemon/grapefruit peel, light grassy, bread. Creamy light-medium body, some acidity.

Bottle sampled on 8/16/06: Pours a hazy golden with a big, well-lacing frothy white head. Aroma has a nice sweet biscuity maltiness and a touch of coriander pepper spice. Body starts with a full, semi-sweet and earthy pale maltiness with some doughy biscuit and mild coriander toward a smooth, balanced finish.

A maelstrom of strong yeasty spices is unleashed on the palate…It quickly quiets down and leaves behind a lemony acidity…Pleasant and unusual wit…

large, but quickly disappearing head. Flavour is yeasty, fruity and slightly sour, reminds me of grapefruit. Also slightly bitter.

Bottled. Aroma is citrus, banana, wheat and lightly spiced. Hazy, yellow color, small irregular white head, fair lace. Citrus sweet, pretty bitter especially in the finish, hint of banana, wheat. Soft mouthfeel but in the end metallic. Too bitter for a wheat beer if you’d ask me.