Shiner Orange Wit
Spoetzl Brewery

 

Pours bright orange bronze with a very white one finger head. Aroma is clean, wheat and very lightly spicy. Taste is clean and a profile of wheat. Carbonation is low and the mouthfeel is shy of moderate. Nothing stands out but the brew goes down nicely.

Poured from a can into a pint glass. Pours light orange yellow with a tiny white head. Smells of weak orange with some wheat. Tastes of some wheat with some orange. Beer is light bodied and easy drinking, good carbonation. Overall, a good beer.

Light copper colored with a fingernail of off white around the rim and covering two-thirds of the top. Light lacing on the glass. The aroma is of orange and coriander. I’m tasting coriander and orange. The mouth is moderately carbonated and dry.

Decent beer that's sessionable. Not much orange if I'm honest but that doesn't mean it's bad. Decent beer, can pound these all day like they were Mia khalifa.

Shiner Orange Wit from Spoetzl Brewery. Mixed twelve-pack of 12 fl oz bottles, picked up 13/11/25, at HEB, New Braunfels, TX, $21.33 (including tax)/$ 0.146/fl oz. Reviewed 17/11/25, review 3633. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Individual bottles undated, but box is stamped “03/11/26.” Stored at home at 37 degrees F. Served at 50.1 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature is 55.9 degrees F.
Appearance – 3.75
First pour – Gold (SRM 5), clear.
Body – Deep Gold (SRM 6), clear. Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, same.
Head – Average (Maximum one cm, aggressive center pour). White, medium density, short retention, leaving 0.1 cm thin bubble ring and no cap.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 3 – Virtually none, - no malt, no hops, no alcohol (5.4% ABV according to the label).
Flavor – 3.5 – Begins with orange candy, sweet. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl. Weak coriander on the aftertaste. No yeastiness. Oddly refreshing. No gastric warming.
Palate – 3.75 – Medium: Syrupy: Soft but lively carbonation.
Style: Somewhat follows the BA style description – no suspended yeast and definitely not “white”.
Final impression and summation: 3.5 Uncredited art work. Doesn’t particularly follow style, but the tastiest of a questionable variety pack.