Super Wit
McKenzie Brew House

2005 version. This has been on tap at the brewpub for a few weeks. I am pretty shocked that I'm the first to review it. As a matter of fact special draft offerings at McKenzies have been awesome as of late yet only 2 Bier de Mars reviews, no Sticke beer ( on for a month) or Maibock (on about a week) reviews. Any way, that is a topic for a future forum post and I digress.

I recall how awesome this beer tasted on 5 Czars brewing day on 2/1/04 and this batch is it's equal. I believe the specifications are similar and abv as well.

Beautiful orange tinged golden color topped by a very tight silky talcum white head. foamy ring remains after it settles.

Wonderful ripe tropical fruit aromas, even some apple. Intially sweet giving way to spicy peppery scents.

It's hard to believe spices have not been added to this beer. Initial lemon and orange gives way to a bit of nutmeg and pepper. For all the spice quality it is quite refeshing and easy to drink at almost 7%.

Since none of you seem to be hitting this I will enjoy growler after growler during the early summer weeks. I highly recommend you stop in and enjoy this lovely summer brew.

A dark Orange/Golden colour with a nice compact head of white foam. The aromas consist of lemon peel, various Belgian spices, wheat, yeast, and more. The taste is super refreshing and lemony up front, the middle is spicy, bold, and zesty, and the finish is a bit dry, wheaty, and awesome. The mouthfeel is medium bodied-thick and just right for the double white style and the drinkability is absolutely awesome! Wow, is this better than the double white from SPH!? I'm not sure yet, but it is definately DAMN CLOSE!

This beer pours a hazy, murky straw color, with a big, thick, white head that gradually disappears but not too quickly. Its color is its worst feature but only in comparison to its taste, mouthfeel and drinkability. Right off, you're hit with the expected witbier aromas - spices, sour fruits, and cloves. The taste is where this thing really takes off. It's chock full o' spicy green fruits like sour apples, with lots of Reisling-like flavors, big clove flavors the more it warmed, bubblegum in the middle and a nice, mild, satisfying bitterness to finish. It's super effervescent, very crisp and refreshing and a seriously easy drink. I should probably say dangerously easy drink as it's got a high ABV. This is a top-notch witbier. Another note, this is easily the best beer I've ever had from McKenzie's - they've got a monster here. I was actually considering beering my second bottle of this forward to someone but after tasting the first, I'm not so sure I'm willing to part with it.

This beer was poured into the glass a yellow straw color that was fairly cloudy, so cloudy that you couldn’t see anything on the other side of the glass. The head that was produced was a thick and foamy white color that seemed to last fairly well, and produced a decent lace on the sides of the glass that were sticky in nature. The aromas that came from the glass were of fruits, sweet malt, wheat, spice and some sugar. The tastes that rolled across my tongue were of sweet malt, fresh fruits, citrus (sugar lemons and oranges), spices, light yeast and wheat grains, and I noticed a small wave of alcohol at the very end, and it left you with a small sweet orange, yeast aftertaste. It was light to medium bodied and creamy in nature. A really good beer that was pleasing to the palate. When I asked the brewer what the alcohol was on it and he told me 7% I was shocked, I told him that he hid it well. I really liked this beer and would get again.

Tasted 20 May 2003: Brewed with raw wheat and unfiltered. A cloudy yellow body is capped by a short, foamy white head that holds well and maintains a thin surface covering throughout the entire glass; leaving some very nice Brussels lace as it goes. The nose is delicate with a sugary wheat malt character and a light touch of citrus peel. The body is medium/light; and it's creamy with a light zest on the tongue due to a very fine and softly effervescent carbonation. The flavor delivers a rush of wheaty malt and fruity summer berries- even blueberry. It's sweetish (at only 7 IBU's) and even softly candyish with some mild bubblegum. A light spice (probably from the yeast) swirls throughout the malt, and only truly reveals itself in the finish as it blankets the tongue along with some residual orange peel. Tasty! Zesty! Refreshing! And overly drinkable for being 7% abv!

Tasted 8 February 2004: Its cloudy golden body rests gently beneath a compact head of bright white foam. Occasionally a few very fine bubbles can be seen moving steadily towards the surface. The retention is fairly good, and it initially leaves splashes of thin, craggy lace about the glass. The nose is decidedly spicy with coriander and pepper (? - reminiscent in some ways of a saison. Is it actual pepper or the yeast? Also, maybe some grains of paradise?) over a floral background that's lightly touched by sweet oranges. It's crisp in the mouth with a very fine carbonation amidst its medium body. The spice appears right up front and carries through into a dry finish, while its rich, wheatish malt makes its appearance in the middle. It's hard to say if the alcohol is lending anything as the pepperish character could easily come from either alcohol or spice... I'd guess spice. The bitterness is light but notable at 17 BU's and a touch of floral hop flavor can be detected in the finish. An interesting and exciting beer that retains some good drinkability despite its increased size! Worth trying.