Grisette Blanche

Brewed by Brouwerij Affligem / De Smedt (Heineken)
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Opwijk, Belgium

Serve in Tumbler, Weizen

Bottle at the Great Japan Beer Festival, Osaka, 2011. A typical Belgian Wit, very spicy, with orange. Sweeter than it should be. Not bad, but not really a good wit—too sweet, too much spice, but ok.

Bottle (25 cl) from La Marché de Nathalie Brasserie, Bouillon, Belgium. Cloudy milk golden, large rocky white head. Overwhelming spicy aroma with soapy and perfumy coriander notes, and with a presumably nice phenolic and estery yeast character hovering in the background. Medium bodied and soft. Dry with low bitterness. This could propbably be a very good Wit with more reasonable amount of spices. Right now, it’s just a mess.

Pours a cloudy yellow with a fizzy white head. Aroma is malty, fruity with some hints of spices. Taste is orangy with some coriander and wheatiness. Texture is quite watery. Not too bad.

Bottled 0.25L (St.Feuillien). Mild nose of honey. Slightly hazy pale golden colour. Not sweet and not sour taste. Mild hops. Slight hints of apple in the taste. Slightly waterly.

250ml bottle, about 8C. Cloudy yellowy orange with a tightly-packed white head. Very high bead. Aroma of lemon sherbet, cloves, white pepper, coriander seeds. Light-bodied but a bit creamy in texture. Taste has (mainly sweet, some sour) lemon pudding, light dough, spices at the end. A very good Wit.

250 ml bottle. Brewed by Brasserie St-Feuillien. From bierzwerg.de.
Hazy yellow golden colour with small white head. Sweetish aroma with wheat, raisins, coriander, orange, yeast and citrus. Flavour is more sour with wheat, citrus, yeast and flour. Drinkable and easy Witbier.

Bottle in Brussels. Grapefruit body with thin head. Nose of citrus and grapefruit. Taste of citrus, honey and sugary. Quite nice.

Bottle 0.25ltr: An commercial witbier with some good thirstquenching abbillities.