Sweetwater Tavern Wits End

Brewed by Sweetwater Tavern (Great American Restaurants)
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Falls Church, Virginia USA

Serve in Tumbler, Weizen

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Draft at Sweetwater. Hazy straw yellow with almost no head after a few seconds. Only a faint nose of yeast is evident. Nice clean, well incorporated flavors of cloves, banana, lemon, and sourdough lead to a short, refreshing finish.

Cloudy yellor color, medium white head. Aroma of tropical fruit and spice. Taste is citrus and light spice. Not bad.

Cloudy pale yellow pour with frothy white head and lace. Wheat, corriander, a hinto lemon zest, and light yeast. Flat wheat, corriander, dry clovish flavor, and a light dry wheat finish. Light bodied with nice carbonation.

Nice orange peel notes on the nose. Pours pineapple juice with a lily white head. Nice fruitiness on the tongue. Lots of creaminess on the tongue. Finishes clean.

On tap in Falls Church. Great aroma to this wit. Spicy and fruity with teaberry, coriander, orange peel and sweet malty notes. Cardammon? Sweet and musky. Cloudy golden with thick white lacing head. Medium body with medium carbonation. Starts sweet, wheaty with orange and teaberry. Light rind and coriander bitterness at finish. Yeasty and rich. Big flavor on this one. Great spicy-sweet finish. Tons of cardammon.

on tap, cloudy yellow pour with short white foam, aroma of lemons, spice and wheat, flavor of nice wheat, light spice, light finish

Really cloudy in the glass, even for a wit. Looks like overly pulpy grapefruit juice. The nose has nice fruit and spice notes, but there is also a grainy yeastiness that smells fresh. Full, thick mouthfeel, slightly dry finish.

Draft at Merrifield (Falls Church) location. Pours a hazy, cloudy yellow color with a white head. Initially the aroma is pretty subtle, as it’s far too cold when it’s initially served (frozen glasses, come on!). As it warms the aroma comes out - spices, banana, yeast. Flavors are stronger, spicier, and pretty refreshing.

Draft sample at falls church. Catch name, that’s for sure. Ok beer. Muted banana flavors. Good spice aromas and flavors. Nice cloves. Cloudy yellow color. A little one dimensional and could have a little more malty characteristics.

Sterling location. Light cloudy yellow, almost has a milky white haze. Straightforward crisp lemon and wheat flavors, similar aroma, only a sprinkling of coriander and orange peel, really weak in that respect. Palate is a bit difficult to like, it’s lightly fizzy, almost passing for peppery, but at times it becomes slick and soapy like olive oil. I keep thinking that they must have modeled this after Blue Moon, because it’s about as far as you can get from traditional witbier. I mean it tasted fine, especially on a hot summer day, it will satisfy only because it refreshes, but stand it up against true witbier and it wouldn’t last one second.