Dom'E'Stique WIt
Cycler's Brewing

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poured from a can into a pint glass. Cloudy yellow. Brief head and no significant lacing. Clean lemony smell. Taste is tart, tangy, and lemony. A bit grassy and another taste which I am not sure of. An ok beer.

12 oz. can poured into pilsener
(4/26/17 born-on date)

L: slightly cloudy pale yellow; pushes up over 1-inch tall head of white foam that dissipates quickly; leaves no trace of head behind, no collar; no sticking and nothing to lace; the color is so pale yellow it's almost green; despite the lack of collar there is quite a bit of activity in the glass

S: lemon peel, lavender, yeasty dusty banana, pinch of coriander

T: tangy lemon bite up front, peach pie on back; cheesecake; lavender flavor in every sip, usually just after the leadoff lemon flavor; hint of gose-like salt; as it warms the coriander shows up more and it begins tasting more like a traditional wit; a bread-malt flavor sweetens it as it warms, giving it that peach pie note

F: lightweight, lightly crisp, simple and solid

O: unique ... it's like a lavender gose with a nice, tight lemon tartness and a hint of salt along with the floral flavor; as it warms it becomes a bit more like the average wit, but even then it maintains the tart note and lavender presence; very cool brew and one I'll revisit

 

 

 

Can out of the Texas Craft Brewer's box from HEB.

Appearance: Hazy straw yellow glass over foams on opening and pours mostly foam. First can gusher, a milestone for me. I'm willing to consider it may be simply be over carbonated, but the possibility of infection is now on the table. The foam all drops off fairly quickly leaving no head despite active champagne bubbles. Think this may be my first 1 on appearance on BA, but it's not attractive, (and I love beer).

Aroma: Appropriate levels of wet grain / wheat base with a heady ester of overripe peach with some spices, but not very heavy on the coriander which is normally what I love about a Wit. The Belgian yeast drives a lot of the aroma, with a background hint of horse blanket.

Taste: Lemon juicy acidity stays sharp and never really brings any sweetness to give any balance. Dries out very quickly leaving a sour twag, lemon juice is the best I can do to describe it.

Mouthfeel: Completely flat, syrupy texture, medium heavy body, stinging acidity.

Overall: My first taste of Cycler's, and kudos for swinging for the fences but this was a swing and a miss. I'm fairly sure this is infected, and if not, let's just say I'm not a fan of the spices. Seems to be a wit trying to go big in abv, but this seems to head into Trippel or maybe Belgian Pale, not that there's anything wrong with that, but I wanted a Wit. Afraid this is a drain pour.

Edit: Opened the second can, same issues. Now I've had 2 can gushers.

Really great Wit, nice lemony tartness that you don't really see in the style, almost like a gose.

 

 

 

Not a bad taste but it was extremely over carbonated, tasted too much like champagne. I even got a lot of head on the pour too, so it wasn't that.

Slightly hazy golden pour with a white one-finger head. Nice yeasty aroma with a hint of lemon. The taste has well balanced flavors of grain, banana and yeast.