Gruut Belgian Wit Bier
Gentse Gruut Brouwerij

Gruut Belgian Wit BierGruut Belgian Wit Bier
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From:
Gentse Gruut Brouwerij
 
Belgium
Style:
Witbier
Ranked #221
ABV:
5%
Score:
81
Ranked #25,422
Avg:
3.55 | pDev: 10.99%
Reviews:
36
Ratings:
69
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jan 01, 2024
Added:
Jul 08, 2008
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  6
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Ratings by rinhaak:
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Reviewed by rinhaak from Massachusetts

3.83/5  rDev +7.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Pours a cloudy gold, like melted butter or prebottled lemon juice. There is a little head, but nothing remarkable.

The wheat comes through in the nose, as does a sour lemon juice smell. There is something slightly spicy here as well.

Everything in the nose is accentuated in the mouth. This is very spicy with a sour lemon juice flavor. There are hints of coriander, rotten fruit, and fresh bread. The finish is surprisingly bitter, but most unlike any other bitter beer because of the ingredient gruut (the bittering agent used in all their beer). Mixed with this bitter finish, though, is also a roasted malt flavor that took me by surprise.

This is a very complex and well balanced beer that is nicely done. However, the beer is so foreign to my tastes that I am happy drinking one and don't really need (or want) another.

Definitely worth trying should you find yourself in Gent.
Feb 24, 2011
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.64 by SViterileroux74 from Texas

Jan 01, 2024
 
Rated: 3.39 by SierraFlight from Virginia

Oct 18, 2023
 
Rated: 3.67 by igl from Russian Federation

Jun 19, 2022
 
Rated: 3.5 by arzt from Germany

Sep 11, 2020
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Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England

2.9/5  rDev -18.3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
L- Paler than 'pale straw', in fact with the cloudy haze in the pour the result is a form of pale milky grey/yellow (hardly enticing). The head is a better looking 5mm super-fine bubble white head.
S- Very subtle indeed. I got a mildly 'organic' note, but then even that seemed to go.
T- The most prominent flavour is it's wheaty taste, together with a little spicy zing on the tongue. The 'zing' is likely due to the coriander in this, and there is just a small 'perfumed' note which the lable suggests might be it's 'hints of orange', though the ingredients just list 'herbs' amongst the more exotic ingredients.
F- It probably does feel about 5%. I think a challenge with these gruits is their taste seems to include some pretty non-standard facets in place of the absent hops, and perhaps being unfamiliar they can be a focus of one's attention and the ABV% perhaps becomes less noticable in the balance. In short the taste risks being over-dominant vs the underlying feel.
O- If you're going to give this one a go I'd suggest doing so during hotter months when it might be something a bit different and refreshing. This is actually one of the better gruits I've had from a Gentse multi-pack I recently bought, that said they haven't done much for me.
330ml bottle. BB: 04/09/2021. Bought from BelgiumInABox in Antwerp for delivery to me in London.
ps. Lable is now updated. A more trad style, a pale etching of historic Belgium building facades with restrained font styles overlaying it.
Apr 21, 2020
 
Rated: 3 by Dutchcraftbeergeek from Netherlands

Feb 02, 2019
 
Rated: 3.31 by bierfonteintje from Belgium

Sep 29, 2018
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Reviewed by josanguapo from Spain

3.52/5  rDev -0.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
From Belgiuminabox. In Teku glass. Playing 8 Bit Commando, then Tengami. Even without any hops, it tastes very similar to a standard (and good, not too much spicy) wit, maybe a bit more herbal
Sep 09, 2017
 
Rated: 3.75 by steverx8 from England

Jul 12, 2017
 
Rated: 3.75 by Birdlegs from Washington

May 21, 2017
 
Rated: 3.25 by Euroglot from Belgium

Nov 05, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by MattMorin from Illinois

Oct 30, 2016
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Reviewed by oceanman907 from Texas

3.39/5  rDev -4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
This beer is interesting for a gruit. good light body with an aroma of banana and green fruit. Light coriander spice and more bananas influence the taste, but it is also thin and watery and not terribly great mouthfeel. All in all interesting but not spectacular.
Jul 19, 2015
 
Rated: 3.32 by Fezzz from Belgium

Jun 30, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by ChrisL24481 from New Hampshire

Mar 23, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by Jame515 from Texas

Dec 10, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by leitmotif from Romania

Sep 14, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by mattfancett from England

Aug 28, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by thufflife from Missouri

Aug 19, 2014
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