Olde Burnside Penny Weiz Ale

Brewed by Olde Burnside Brewing Co.
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
East Hartford, Connecticut USA

Serve in Tumbler, Weizen

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smells like stale orange but this has a putrid flavor, rotten grains and rotten oranges. Dumped it out

Draft @ Portland Brewfest. Pale hazy color. Full white head with good retention. Excellent nose of wheat, orange and coriander. Damn fine taste of lemon zest, orange, yeast and a hint of hops. I’m a huge drinker of wheat beers and for me; it works on every level. Light body, soft carbonation. Mouthfeel is crisp and extremely refreshing. You have to like Wit beers and lots of citrus to enjoy this. I will pick up a growler of this in the near future.

It’s a cloudy yellow in appearance with very little head. It had a much more mild and lemony flavor than I expected with no real Belgian yeast flavor. Very refreshing but tasted almost more like a soft drink than beer. Very interesting and nice on a hot summer day. Probably not the beer for you if you want a straightforward hefeweizen. Also you’ll need some help because it’s only available in 64 ounce growlers.

In short: A wheat beer with a dominant pineapple flavor. Original and refreshing.
How: Tap at Vermont Brewer’s Festival 2010
The look: Cloudy yellow body topped by a medium white head
In long: The bright nose has lemongrass, pineapples, lime. The taste is a bit unusual. I don’t remember ever having a beer that tasted some much like pineapples. A LOT of pineapples. Very refreshing. Nice tartness. Pleasant crisp wheaty body. This was an original brew and I would love to try it again to see if it really tastes like this every time. I will remember this beer. And my memory is getting better and better, I practice it by lying to everyone.

Sample at Vermont brewers festival.
Appearance : hazy pale yellow with white head.
Aroma : Citrusy with notes of lime and pineapple it would seem.
Taste : A bit watery but nice pineapple. Some malts. Soft carbonation.
Overall : Very strange beer but interesting. Don’t know where those weird fruity notes comes from but it was quite good. Very nice summer drink. Maybe a bit too watery on taste.

Verre de dégustation, provenant d’un cruchon, au Vermont Brewers Festival 2010 (Burlington, VT). Arôme: Légère odeur d’agrumes et de céréales. Apparence: La couleur est blanche orangée complètement opaque. Présence d’un moyen col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût d’agrumes avec une pointe de banane et de thé. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement onctueuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Légère présence de céréales en arrière goût. (Rating #3128)

Tap at BCTC 2010. A decent Witbier with some dynamic twists. Pours a cloudy, light yellow with a mild, white head. Pleasant citrus aroma with some noticable wheat and yeast. Flavor is sweet and refreshing with more citrus notes, but also with some robust sweetness with honey and caramel malts, though to a lesser extent. Light to medium in body with average carbonation. Finishes sweet and semi-crisp. Not bad at all.

Sharp citrus aroma with a light amount of marmalade. Cloudy yellow color with a small white head. Mild bitter beginning with a sweet citrus finish.

BCTC 2010. paler yellow pour. lemony pledge like aroma & taste. something just seemed off. decent mouthfeel. again this was one of the last during the 4 hr binge

a really nice witbier that doesnt try to do too much, or add too much flavor or too many different flavors. A lot of the time breweries will try to add something new to a witbier to make thiers distinctive but usually end up ruining the beer, this is a nice simple design that works; a weizen with a nice hint of orange zest, perfect.