Citra Weisse
Microbrasserie Le Castor

Citra WeisseCitra Weisse
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From:
Microbrasserie Le Castor
 
Quebec, Canada
Style:
Hefeweizen
ABV:
5%
Score:
87
Avg:
3.9 | pDev: 6.67%
Reviews:
16
Ratings:
47
Status:
Active
Rated:
Mar 19, 2021
Added:
Aug 07, 2014
Wants:
  4
Gots:
  6
Hopfenweisse is a hybrid beer style, a marriage between an IPA and a German-style wheat beer. It pairs perfectly with hot days, friends, and your favourite terrace.
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Ratings by slowfade:
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Rated by slowfade from Canada (QC)

3.75/5  rDev -3.8%

Aug 21, 2014
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Reviewed by Alexc11 from Canada (QC)

3.98/5  rDev +2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
I really enjoyed this one. Pours thick foamy, soapy head. Cloudy, pale color. Healthy lacing. Yeast, wheat, mango and citrus aroma. Taste includes some of the aroma tones mentioned - mostly the yeast part- plus hint of peppery spiciness. Feel has a pinch to it. Medium carbonation and hoppy bitterness.
Mar 19, 2021
 
Rated: 3.75 by rugene from Canada (QC)

Dec 01, 2019
 
Rated: 3.94 by Simon212 from Canada (ON)

Jun 17, 2019
 
Rated: 3.75 by zbelair from Pennsylvania

Jun 08, 2019
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Reviewed by papposilenus from New Hampshire

3.69/5  rDev -5.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
From a 473ml can, dated 04/08/19. I didn’t know what to put it in so I used an imperial pint pub glass.

Pours lightly hazed but otherwise bright and cheery, a sort of lemony gold color, with a scant finger of soft and soapy suds. Retention is pretty good, leaving a solid, creamy, dimpled cap and the odd scattered gob of lacing.

Robust aroma of brett yeast. Sharp, earthy and funky with some tart citrus in the background.

Taste is pretty much what the nose led me to expect but with a dominant spicy character, more piperine than clove, and an earthy, slightly-off, more-bitter-than-tart citrus taste, like an old discolored half a lemon that’s been in the fridge since last fall because you kept thinking you’d use it for something but then never did.

Feel is a little bit tacky but otherwise crisp, medium bodied and brightly carbonated. It clings to the back of my tongue.

Overall, not half as bad as I made it sound. I wouldn’t drink it again on purpose but, if I did it by mistake, I wouldn’t be angry.
Apr 24, 2019
 
Rated: 3.7 by liamt07 from Canada (ON)

Aug 25, 2017
 
Rated: 4.23 by Tivlavrie from Canada (AB)

Nov 06, 2016
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.88/5  rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
660ml (?) bottle - still kind of stoked to see this brewery now represented in Alberta!

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and somewhat chunky off-white head, which leaves some random European post-war ruin lace around the glass as it quickly recedes.

It smells of gritty and grainy wheat malt, some pleasantly muddled domestic and more exotic citrus fruitiness, edgy yeast, a touch of banana bubblegum banality, some faint white pepper and clove spiciness, and maybe a hint of leafy, earthy, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is pithy and grainy pale malt, a lesser testy wheatiness, still mixed and matched citrusy and tropical fruity notes, more tame banana/clove/chewing gum odes to the supposed style here, a fading earthy spice character, and more weirdly relevant leafy, herbal, and floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly active in its basically workaday frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and more or less smooth, as the Citra hop seems somewhat benevolent in this particular regard. It finishes trending dry, the mixed malt and citrus-forward guest hops thankfully winning the day.

Overall, this is an interesting enough crossing of swords/worlds/streams, or what have you, and it generally works - the German wheat beer essence is not too pushy, and the west coast Yankee hoppiness does well to even things out. Easy to drink, and worthy of sessioning, especially if you're of a split mind between these two brewing styles.
Nov 03, 2016
 
Rated: 3.77 by Jerk_Store from Canada (QC)

Sep 30, 2016
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Reviewed by 3Vandoo from Canada (QC)

4.09/5  rDev +4.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Dark blonde opaque with a good head retention that let itself die in a foamy way.

Smell is fruity, yeasty, oily with Citra hints. Very refreshing.

Taste is smooth at first followed by fruity flavour with shy hints of spices such as Cinnamon.
Sep 24, 2016
 
Rated: 3.69 by Sammy from Canada (ON)

Aug 14, 2016
 
Rated: 3.78 by LanceH from Canada (ON)

Aug 04, 2016
 
Rated: 4.1 by Abbott from Canada (QC)

Jul 30, 2016
 
Rated: 4.15 by JustBrewin from Canada (QC)

Jul 15, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by Supergenou from Canada (QC)

Jun 11, 2016
 
Rated: 4.2 by mademers from Canada (QC)

Mar 03, 2016
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Reviewed by CanadianBacon from Canada (QC)

3.85/5  rDev -1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Appearance - This beer pours a very cloudy pale yellow color with 2 fingers of foamy white head, the head seems to stick around fairly well. guessing the wheat is doing its job.

Aroma - There is a strong wheat zest on the for front, followed quickly by strong floral hops. Then some lemon, bubble gum, banana and clove.

Taste - follows the nose to a tee, finishes with some light banana sweetness and clove spiceyness.

Feel - medium-light body soap sudsy carbonation. goes down easy.

Overall - I still think their best beers are their ipa variants but this ins't a horrible offering. Obviously it cant be compared to a really hefe as it is very different, so I'm solely rating it on how I feel about it.
Jan 04, 2016
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Reviewed by biegaman from Canada (ON)

3.84/5  rDev -1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Citra Weisse is nowhere near as cloudy as a standard Hefeweizen - then again, given the intensive hopping regime and varietal listed in the name, it should have been obvious this isn't a standard hefeweizen. It's certainly apparent now - it lacks the cotton candy-like head. It does, however, have that radiant sunny and almost anemic golden hue that's almost prerequisite for summertime quenchers.

A blend of several components, this bouquet is loaded and layered like a pub plate of nachos. Not only is there a variety of orchard and citrus fruits but specifically notes of peaches, lychee and gooseberries. It's tropical! The yeast they pitched was probably pink - it's coated in bubblegum and pink peppercorn.

Again, this Hefe is no one fruit pony; the characteristic banana flavour is cut with a good amount of orange and lemon. That citrus component lends serious refreshment to a style that's already seriously refreshing. The fact there's a little pinch of coriander-like spice, a subtle, fleeting tartness, and airy effervescence really compound the quenching factor. If anyone asks I'll be on the patio... for a while.

Citra Weisse fully delivers on the citra hops. Hopheads have nothing to complain about. But anyone sporting lederhosen or looking to pair something with their Bratwurst, well, they won't recognize this. Bavarian hefeweizen is much heartier and the flavour profile more phenolic and banana-driven.

Consumers continue to have an appetite for hops and, god bless them, brewers keep finding ways to cram them in. I've been hooked on the idea of hoppy wheat beers ever since trying Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse and I'm frankly surprised more brewers haven't caught on. But between Le Castor Citra Weisse and Les Trois Mousquetaires Hopfenweisse it seems Quebec micros know what's good.
Sep 17, 2015
 
Rated: 4.25 by Socialiste from Canada (QC)

Aug 27, 2015
Citra Weisse from Microbrasserie Le Castor
Beer rating: 87 out of 100 with 47 ratings