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Gruut Belgian Wit Bier
Gentse Gruut Brouwerij
- 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:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 01, 2024
- Added:
- Jul 08, 2008
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 6
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Ratings by rinhaak:
Reviewed by rinhaak from Massachusetts
3.83/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
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, 2011The 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.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England
2.9/5 rDev -18.3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
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, 2020S- 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.
Reviewed by josanguapo from Spain
3.52/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
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, 2017Reviewed 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
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
Gruut Belgian Wit Bier from Gentse Gruut Brouwerij
Beer rating:
81 out of
100 with
69 ratings
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