Mothership Wit | New Belgium Brewing
Brewed by:
New Belgium Brewing
Colorado, United States
newbelgium.com
Style: Belgian Witbier
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 4.80%
Availability: Rotating
Notes / Commercial Description:
Organic wheat beer.
IBU's: 12
Added by mentor on 05-16-2006
This beer is retired; no longer brewed.
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Ratings: 962 | Reviews: 545
3.84/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +3.9%
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
3.51/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
4.06/5 rDev +12.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +9.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Smooth coriander finish. Golden hazy color with good heady draw. Tangy citrus give this wheat beer a crisp and refreshing finish. Wonderfully balanced brew.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Smooth coriander finish. Golden hazy color with good heady draw. Tangy citrus give this wheat beer a crisp and refreshing finish. Wonderfully balanced brew.
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3.83/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 10/9/2016. Pours hazy golden straw color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Dense soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of lemon, orange peel, pear, apple, coriander, pepper, clove, light banana/bubblegum, wheat, cracker, bread, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of fruity/earthy yeast, spices, and moderate pale malt notes; with good strength. Taste of lemon, orange peel, pear, apple, coriander, pepper, clove, light banana/bubblegum, wheat, cracker, bread, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Light herbal bitterness and yeast spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, orange peel, pear, apple, coriander, pepper, clove, wheat, cracker, bread, and herbal/yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice complexity, balance, and solid robustness of fruity/earthy yeast, spices, and moderate pale malt flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light-moderate dryness after the finish. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth and moderately creamy/grainy mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.8%. Overall this is a very good witbier. All around good complexity, balance, and solid robustness of fruity/earthy yeast, spices, and moderate pale malt flavors; very smooth and refreshing to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 10/9/2016. Pours hazy golden straw color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Dense soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of lemon, orange peel, pear, apple, coriander, pepper, clove, light banana/bubblegum, wheat, cracker, bread, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of fruity/earthy yeast, spices, and moderate pale malt notes; with good strength. Taste of lemon, orange peel, pear, apple, coriander, pepper, clove, light banana/bubblegum, wheat, cracker, bread, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Light herbal bitterness and yeast spiciness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, orange peel, pear, apple, coriander, pepper, clove, wheat, cracker, bread, and herbal/yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice complexity, balance, and solid robustness of fruity/earthy yeast, spices, and moderate pale malt flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light-moderate dryness after the finish. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth and moderately creamy/grainy mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.8%. Overall this is a very good witbier. All around good complexity, balance, and solid robustness of fruity/earthy yeast, spices, and moderate pale malt flavors; very smooth and refreshing to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
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3.72/5 rDev +3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
4.46/5 rDev +23.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.1/5 rDev +13.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.48/5 rDev +24.1%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
New Belgium Brewing - Mothership Wit 4.8% ABV. 15 IBU's? ha, that's a guess
I got this when I bought a New Belgium sampler that brought this beer back. I guess they haven't brewed this one in a while.
Look: Cloudy yellow, fluffy white head, lots of lacing in the glass.
Smell: Lemon, Sweet Wheat, Coriander
Taste: follow the scent with lemon, sweet wheat and coriander. It tastes like a good unfiltered wheat beer should, but nothing above the average here.
Feel: Nice soft medium body that has a fluffy element with the carbonation. It is about the right feel for a Beligum style wit beer.
Overall: I think it does the job by giving you a nice refreshing wheat beer that you can enjoy. I don't think that there is any one flavor that stands out though. It is pretty average. It tastes alot like Full Pint's white lightning, but not as good. I think that for 4.8% ABV. it is pretty nice though.
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look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
New Belgium Brewing - Mothership Wit 4.8% ABV. 15 IBU's? ha, that's a guess
I got this when I bought a New Belgium sampler that brought this beer back. I guess they haven't brewed this one in a while.
Look: Cloudy yellow, fluffy white head, lots of lacing in the glass.
Smell: Lemon, Sweet Wheat, Coriander
Taste: follow the scent with lemon, sweet wheat and coriander. It tastes like a good unfiltered wheat beer should, but nothing above the average here.
Feel: Nice soft medium body that has a fluffy element with the carbonation. It is about the right feel for a Beligum style wit beer.
Overall: I think it does the job by giving you a nice refreshing wheat beer that you can enjoy. I don't think that there is any one flavor that stands out though. It is pretty average. It tastes alot like Full Pint's white lightning, but not as good. I think that for 4.8% ABV. it is pretty nice though.
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3.31/5 rDev -8.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Wheat and spices (Coriander) at the front that smooths out quickly.
Taste Rating in Words: Your buddy that comes out strong, ready to party, but by 9:00 p.m. is asleep.
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look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Wheat and spices (Coriander) at the front that smooths out quickly.
Taste Rating in Words: Your buddy that comes out strong, ready to party, but by 9:00 p.m. is asleep.
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3.32/5 rDev -8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
When you want cloudy yellow here you go. Big frothy pillowy white head over one inch. You get all the spice rack feels on this one, coriander, lemon, wheat, sage, you name it.
All of this in the aroma comes on strong in the taste as well. Goes hard in the paint with the herbs and shit. I mean, it brings the style defining stuff big time here, well beyond my preference threshold, I like that stuff to be used a little more sparingly, this was reminiscient of that witbier Bruery made White Orchid, its pretty thick like that.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
When you want cloudy yellow here you go. Big frothy pillowy white head over one inch. You get all the spice rack feels on this one, coriander, lemon, wheat, sage, you name it.
All of this in the aroma comes on strong in the taste as well. Goes hard in the paint with the herbs and shit. I mean, it brings the style defining stuff big time here, well beyond my preference threshold, I like that stuff to be used a little more sparingly, this was reminiscient of that witbier Bruery made White Orchid, its pretty thick like that.
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4/5 rDev +10.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured into a Wicked Weed snifter. Label says Best Before: 16OCT16.
A- Pours a hazy dark golden color with a 1/4 inch white head that retains decently before becoming a paper-thin ring around the edge of the glass and some faint wisps of surface foam. Semi-resilient lacing leaves small clots behind.
S- Yeasty smell of banana with some wheat tying it together.
T- Solid wheat flavor with some yeasty richness. Small note of banana plus some spice.
M- Very slight milky texture with medium carbonation and a light body.
O- A solid wheat beer from a solid brewery. Wasn't expecting much more.
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look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured into a Wicked Weed snifter. Label says Best Before: 16OCT16.
A- Pours a hazy dark golden color with a 1/4 inch white head that retains decently before becoming a paper-thin ring around the edge of the glass and some faint wisps of surface foam. Semi-resilient lacing leaves small clots behind.
S- Yeasty smell of banana with some wheat tying it together.
T- Solid wheat flavor with some yeasty richness. Small note of banana plus some spice.
M- Very slight milky texture with medium carbonation and a light body.
O- A solid wheat beer from a solid brewery. Wasn't expecting much more.
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3.56/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.85/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.92/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.85/5 rDev +6.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.25/5 rDev -10%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.64/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Mothership Wit from New Belgium Brewing
Beer rating:
3.61 out of
5 with
962 ratings
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