Bière Blanche
Pax Bräu

Pax Bräu's has a monthly BierAbo (Beer-Subcription: you receive a new beer every month mailed to you). June's beer is a real summer beer: Bière Blanche. It's basically a Belgian Witbier.
Listed ingredients: "brew malt," wheat, Emmer malt, orange peels, coriander, hops and Szechuan pepper.

I got it in the mail last week,
Here's what Andreas Seufert wrote on the Pax Bräu's Facebook page (my translation):


So good day.
As long as there is still some of that precious stuff, I want to say something about it.
The Bière Blanche pleases with its unique drinkability.
The fruity notes of orange in combination with the coriander and Szechuan pepper and citrusy freshness slide down the throat so easily that it's only just right this beer is not as strong (4.5 vol%).
I find it along with Cissy my favorite creations so far this year.
So cheers.

Now a pic of the beer in the glass. Notice below the wonderful bubbles. They come up continuously from the nucleation points like a Weizen or a good Belian Wit. It's cloudy, bottle conditioned,... may harvest the yeast myself... orange with some browns in the color. No Belgian lacing on the inside of the glass, though. Yet the bubbles just keep getting replaced on the rim of the beer,... what a beautiful site:

So... drinking it....

The aroma is wonderful! Peppery, orange, wheat yeast like a Weizen (banana and bubblegum), coriander and other spices all populate the aroma. Wow.

Flavor is also.... WOWOWOW is my first reaction. I get lots of wheat flavors at first, as if this were a Weizen.
Pepper up front a little, not so hoppy but a enough bitterness to not let the sweetness of the malts overpower. The orange flavor is in the middle mild, barely perceptible but there nonetheless, along with more spiciness but this is as much from coriander as pepper, present but not too much... Goldilocks territory! The back of the tongue tastes more spices but also the wheatiness, slight banana and bubblegum sweetness. This beer is a little thinner than most of Pax's offerings, but it's still thick enough to be hearty, still having a great mouthfeel. This might be attributed to the low-ish 4.5% (on this year's label) ABV. Overall, this is like a merging of 2 beer styles - half German Weizen and half Belgian Wit - but the best of both without any of the excesses of either (say too much bubblegum of the German or too much spiciness of the Belgian.) It's a shame for me there's only 2L of the stuff for me! Very süffig and a WOW-O-WOW, WOW beer. If it were a tad thicker, I would give it a 10, otherwise, a 9 in my book for creativity, uniqueness and delicious drinkability.