Janet Weiss Dunkel Wit
Great Waters Brewing

This is another of a series of interesting hybrid beers brewed by Great Waters. The menu describes it as a dunkel wit. Served on tap, this pours a hazy orange amber color, with a small white head that quickly dissipates. The smell is of fresh lemon. The taste has the promised lemon flavor, along with a flavor of tea and caramel malt. Somehow these disparate flavors blend nicely into a pleasant whole. The mouthfeel is light and refreshing. This is one of the things I love most about the craft beer movement as a whole- the willingness to go outside the box of accepted beer styles. The brewer has done himself proud with this offering.

On-tap at the brewpub: Apparently a mixed brew recipe of Belgian decent using German Dunkel dark, toasted wheat malt and Belgian yeast. Great color of clouded dark oranged caramel brown. Finger high head of soft, spongy, off-white foam sits for good length and laces out well in rings of spots and connections of said dots.

Aroma is soft and highly doughy with some slight dry lemon cookie dough spice.

Taste is bright and doughy big with dry caramel flavors and dull lemon and banana candy ascents. Farily crisp and round with great creamy caramel doughy characteristics to it. Finish hits real well with a bunch of smooth cocoa over the wheaty sweet center lasting for good length and asking for more to be had from its overall clean profile of goodness.

Medium body, creamy, smooth, delightfully candyish, and toned in a nice flavor profile. Quite clean, almost buttery/doughy smooth as grows on you right quick with yummyness.

A dream of great sessionable wonderment. A solid offering that perhaps I may be eeking out a little low in the overall score due its strange combination of brewing. Growlers of this will be needed however to see if an adjustment is required.