Long Trail Brewmaster Series Winter White

Brewed by Long Trail Brewery
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Bridgewater Corners, Vermont USA

Serve in Tumbler, Weizen

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Serving: 22 oz. bottle from State Line Liquors. It pours a cloudy, murky orange with a dense head of white foam. The nose has some spicy clove, wheat, and lemon notes. The flavor has some lemon and a slight tartness that works well. Some yeast and spice, but not overpowering. Medium bodied but a little flabby on the tongue with sparse carbonation and a clean finish. Just a little warming on the back end from the alcohol. Pretty well done.

22oz bottle. Pours a deeper orange/white hue, decent depth. Aromas are sweet and malty, some bready, citrus is fairly obvious. Palate is way too cloying, sweetness through the mid dulls any kind of citrus acidity that this would have given off. It’s a bit one sided the abv is prevelent, some oxidation settling in.

Bottle:   Straw in color, pale golden hue, thin white frothy head, dies quickly, sparce lacing.   Spicy nose, corriander, orange zest, and a lot of dried fruit, the dehydrated kind.   There is some sweet prune too!   Very flavorful on the tongue.   Loads of dehydrated fruit, mainly prune and apricot.   Very interesting and different for a strong Witbier.   Body and mouthfeel are moderate.   This one is more fruity than being a witbier, but that’s okay.   A very interesting take on the style.

Bottle. Hazy, almost pulpy light orange-brown body, medium to thick puffy off-white head. Nose of banana, coriander, orange peel, and wheat, grassy and clean, with a hint of diacetyl. Body with potent coriander and orange peel, spicy and fairly dry, creamy. Very good wit.

22oz traded bottle. Honestly looks like still, orange TANG when this pour settles out. Started out with a nice white head but nothing now. Not sure if my brain is playing tricks on me but the aroma also seems to be big in the orange department. Also a little sugar and spice in there too. Flavor is nice but once again, maybe a little too much citrus; almost a lemon-lime thing going on.

Bomber from a trip to NY in the summer. Glorious wit nose, sweet and spicy with loads of lemon essence. Clear golden-orange body ringing through with a beautiful lacing rocky white head. Taste is juicy and rounded, not one-dimensional as most wits are, with nicely integrated and relaxed alcohol. Aftertaste is short and hints at lemon cleaning fluid, but long-term resolution brings about notes of residual fresh-baked bread. Medium-full body, very flavorful, soft and oily with an occasional angular tang. Truly synergistic while displaying deft, almost casual balance. Time may have helped to mellow this beast, which may be drinking at its peak right now - nothing about this is overbearing, not the coriander or orange and lemon base. I’m not rating according to style, but it’s hard not to remark how textbook this is, among the best I’ve ever had, and proof that this style can be ’imperialized’ without losing its soul.

22 oz bottle, 2009 vintage from Bert’s Better Beers. Use a weizen glass. This beer poured a very cloudy yellow-orange with a huge yellow-white head that dissipated quickly. The aroma was very strong and distinct coriander, sweet orange and lemon. The best coriander note I have ever found in a wit. Also, nice floating sediment and spices floating around in the glass. The flavor was strong orange and coriander with undertones of lemon, pepper and yeastiness. Medium length finish. Fairly full bodied. Excellent. I can’t believe this come out in the winter, It would be fantastic on a warm summer night.

Whitish body with a decent sized foamy head. This is a unique wit in that it has above-average mouthfeel but solely the sweet-spicey orange peel comes through over the wit. The corriander is much. Not that drinkable.

Light, Orange bubbly body. Aroma of spice, orange and a little bit of yeast. Taste is light carbonation, sweet malts and oranges, little spice kick toward the end. Mouthful is slightly watery.

22 ounce bottle from Julio’s in Hoegaarden tumbler. Cloudy pale orange with white ring. Clove coriander and orange tang aroma. Orangey wheat and way way WAY overspiced with coriander. Finish is all orange popsicle and CORIANDER. I am breathing coriander. Thick cloying. Strong white beer is almost always bad, and I love a good Belgian white. This is borderline drainpour. I won’t drink the other half of the bottle. Sorry to the brewers. I like some of your other beers. Blech.