Quick Wit | Fort George Brewery + Public House
Brewed by:
Fort George Brewery + Public House
Oregon, United States
fortgeorgebrewery.com
Style: Witbier
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 5.20%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
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Added by RedDiamond on 07-14-2007
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4.17/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
To me this is a summer beer, meant for drinking several in a sitting.
Color: Golden orange and cloudy with a slightly champagne effervescence.
Nose: Lightly fruity and yeasty
Taste: Bretta fruity influences. I believe this is spiced as well, which I normally frown upon, but it is not overbearing. A little yeasty/bready, and a some citrus
This has some characteristics of a fairly light Saison. It's not overly complex, but it has enough going on the titillate without interference with what you are eating.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
To me this is a summer beer, meant for drinking several in a sitting.
Color: Golden orange and cloudy with a slightly champagne effervescence.
Nose: Lightly fruity and yeasty
Taste: Bretta fruity influences. I believe this is spiced as well, which I normally frown upon, but it is not overbearing. A little yeasty/bready, and a some citrus
This has some characteristics of a fairly light Saison. It's not overly complex, but it has enough going on the titillate without interference with what you are eating.
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4.1/5 rDev +7.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Small to maybe medium sized white head with very small and concentrated bubbles that recede into a thin layering of lacing above a washed out straw golden colored beer that is quite think in appearance.
Big nose of bananas and cloves with some added peppery spices.
The taste is similar to the aroma with bananas, cloves, and a light peppery taste, except it is a lot lighter in the taste than in the aroma.
This lighter bodied beer has a light dryish aftertaste with a bit of the cloves and banana taste hanging around.
If you like wit and wheat beers you will probably really like this stuff, I'm a IPA and darker beers lover and this is still a pretty decent tasting beer. Definitely worth a try.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Small to maybe medium sized white head with very small and concentrated bubbles that recede into a thin layering of lacing above a washed out straw golden colored beer that is quite think in appearance.
Big nose of bananas and cloves with some added peppery spices.
The taste is similar to the aroma with bananas, cloves, and a light peppery taste, except it is a lot lighter in the taste than in the aroma.
This lighter bodied beer has a light dryish aftertaste with a bit of the cloves and banana taste hanging around.
If you like wit and wheat beers you will probably really like this stuff, I'm a IPA and darker beers lover and this is still a pretty decent tasting beer. Definitely worth a try.
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3.7/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.84/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
What can I say, they know how to grow beer in Oregon.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
What can I say, they know how to grow beer in Oregon.
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3.53/5 rDev -7.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
16oz can - consumed on the coast of Washington (Kalaloch)
appearance: cloudy off-yellow body, notable white foam
smell: lemongrass is heavy, sour yeast, spice
taste: a fairly messy beer - overuse of lemongrass, soapy notes, sour wheat, yeast, floral spice. Definitely coloring outside the lines here - not a repeat purchase for me
mouthfeel: creamy, soapy, light
overall: a more traditional wit would have been more pleasing
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look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
16oz can - consumed on the coast of Washington (Kalaloch)
appearance: cloudy off-yellow body, notable white foam
smell: lemongrass is heavy, sour yeast, spice
taste: a fairly messy beer - overuse of lemongrass, soapy notes, sour wheat, yeast, floral spice. Definitely coloring outside the lines here - not a repeat purchase for me
mouthfeel: creamy, soapy, light
overall: a more traditional wit would have been more pleasing
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3.67/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.91/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
4.25/5 rDev +11.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Can into a tulip. Hazy yellow. The yeast on the nose. Lemon, pepper alongside of the yeast taste wise. Somewhat tart, smooth yet really effervescent. Exceptionally good wit beer,!
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look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Can into a tulip. Hazy yellow. The yeast on the nose. Lemon, pepper alongside of the yeast taste wise. Somewhat tart, smooth yet really effervescent. Exceptionally good wit beer,!
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3.58/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Another in a long line of beers from woodychandler, who is the man. Poured from a 16 oz. can. Has a cloudy dark golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of spices, some grains. Taste is wheat, slightly tart, spice, a pinch of lemon and grains. Feels full bodied in the mouth and overall is a refreshing and pretty good beer.
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look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Another in a long line of beers from woodychandler, who is the man. Poured from a 16 oz. can. Has a cloudy dark golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of spices, some grains. Taste is wheat, slightly tart, spice, a pinch of lemon and grains. Feels full bodied in the mouth and overall is a refreshing and pretty good beer.
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3.37/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours cloudy gold with one finger of white head. Head vanishes in no time and no lacing to be found.
Smell some malts, belgian yeast strain.
Taste is clove banana wheat some fruitiness.
Mouthfeel is fine for the style a bit low on carbonation. Slightly dry bitterness in the finish.
Overall an easy drinking Witbier. Quite a bit lower on the taste sensation than the classic Witbiers from Europe but a fine summer quaff.
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look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours cloudy gold with one finger of white head. Head vanishes in no time and no lacing to be found.
Smell some malts, belgian yeast strain.
Taste is clove banana wheat some fruitiness.
Mouthfeel is fine for the style a bit low on carbonation. Slightly dry bitterness in the finish.
Overall an easy drinking Witbier. Quite a bit lower on the taste sensation than the classic Witbiers from Europe but a fine summer quaff.
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3.5/5 rDev -8.4%
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12oz can picked up a little while back at Bier Thirty... Just found it tonight... I have also spotted this one at Brewer's Haven and a couple other places.
Poured into my FunkFest goblet... surprisingly short lived white head atop a hazed golden brew.. no lacing, no retention.
Nose shows wheat malt that sorta pummels the orange zest, but a resilient coriander keeps Wit character in the game.
Flavor is pretty good... the zest and spice come out okay.. perhaps a bit sweet and malty on the finish... seems a bit muddy and yeasty.
Meh... Nothing wrong.. Could be dialed in a bit more IMO.
3.25/3.75/3.5/3.5/3.5
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12oz can picked up a little while back at Bier Thirty... Just found it tonight... I have also spotted this one at Brewer's Haven and a couple other places.
Poured into my FunkFest goblet... surprisingly short lived white head atop a hazed golden brew.. no lacing, no retention.
Nose shows wheat malt that sorta pummels the orange zest, but a resilient coriander keeps Wit character in the game.
Flavor is pretty good... the zest and spice come out okay.. perhaps a bit sweet and malty on the finish... seems a bit muddy and yeasty.
Meh... Nothing wrong.. Could be dialed in a bit more IMO.
3.25/3.75/3.5/3.5/3.5
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3.77/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.92/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Poured into a Celebrator pokal. Pours a slightly cloudy golden amber with a two finger fine white head with lacing. Aroma of sweet and caramel malt, coriander, citrus, light fruit; an pleasantly aromatic wit. Flavor of wheat and lemon, a hint of orange and coriander. Light bitter finish from hops and spicing. A somewhat subdued wit, but a pleasant comination of flavors with a rather abrupt finish. Light bodied as appropriate for the style with a decent mouth feel from carbonation. A bit dry on the finish, but a nice enjoyable light wit overall.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Poured into a Celebrator pokal. Pours a slightly cloudy golden amber with a two finger fine white head with lacing. Aroma of sweet and caramel malt, coriander, citrus, light fruit; an pleasantly aromatic wit. Flavor of wheat and lemon, a hint of orange and coriander. Light bitter finish from hops and spicing. A somewhat subdued wit, but a pleasant comination of flavors with a rather abrupt finish. Light bodied as appropriate for the style with a decent mouth feel from carbonation. A bit dry on the finish, but a nice enjoyable light wit overall.
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3.86/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Muchos gracias SatlyMalty for this bonus beer. Poured into a Due South Brewing Co. snifter. Bottom of can says 02/18.
A- Pours a very hazy (nearly opaque) dark amber color with a 1/2 inch off-white head that retains a bit before soon becoming a thin ring around the edge of the glass and minimal surface foam. Slippery, non-resilient lacing.
S- Full blast of wheat and Belgian yeast with some coriander and lemon zest lingering beneath as well as the ever-present orange peel. Has a soapy quality to it.
T- Rich, mostly full witbier flavor that packs a yeasty punch and is rounded out by the spices. Goes down smooth with little alcohol flavor and minimal bitterness.
M- Pretty standard for the style with some substantial slickness and an almost chalky body. Could use some more carbonation however as it is medium-low.
O- Aside from the lacking carbonation and the somewhat lame look as a result, this is a tasty witbier that's easily drinkable.
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look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Muchos gracias SatlyMalty for this bonus beer. Poured into a Due South Brewing Co. snifter. Bottom of can says 02/18.
A- Pours a very hazy (nearly opaque) dark amber color with a 1/2 inch off-white head that retains a bit before soon becoming a thin ring around the edge of the glass and minimal surface foam. Slippery, non-resilient lacing.
S- Full blast of wheat and Belgian yeast with some coriander and lemon zest lingering beneath as well as the ever-present orange peel. Has a soapy quality to it.
T- Rich, mostly full witbier flavor that packs a yeasty punch and is rounded out by the spices. Goes down smooth with little alcohol flavor and minimal bitterness.
M- Pretty standard for the style with some substantial slickness and an almost chalky body. Could use some more carbonation however as it is medium-low.
O- Aside from the lacking carbonation and the somewhat lame look as a result, this is a tasty witbier that's easily drinkable.
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Quick Wit from Fort George Brewery + Public House
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