Belgian Witbier
Red Collar Brewing Co.
- From:
- Red Collar Brewing Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Witbier
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.98 | pDev: 6.53%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 06, 2016
- Added:
- Sep 14, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.72/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.72/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - @ 6% ABV, for those of us likely to actually have an example of this offering in front of us, eh?
This beer pours a hazy, medium golden amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some eroded limestone cave lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy wheat malt, musty Belgian yeast, overripe orange flesh, sugary coriander, and very plain leafy, weedy, and earthy hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy wheatiness, a touch of crackery pale malt, mildly phenolic yeast, stale white pepper and coriander spice, faded orange and white grapefruit citrus, and more well understated leafy and weedy green hoppiness.
The bubbles are quite laid-back in their low-fidelity frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with maybe just a touch of wayward yeast marring the new paint job, as such. It finishes off-dry, the fruity and complex malty essences winning the day.
Overall, a more or less well-made version of the style, the orange and coriander duly melded into the base wheat ale. Yeast being what it is, however, I found the strain used here to be a bit too prone to wandering, with not enough of that, sorry, je ne sais quoi inherent in the best of class. Worthy of a go, at any rate.
May 31, 2016This beer pours a hazy, medium golden amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some eroded limestone cave lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy wheat malt, musty Belgian yeast, overripe orange flesh, sugary coriander, and very plain leafy, weedy, and earthy hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy wheatiness, a touch of crackery pale malt, mildly phenolic yeast, stale white pepper and coriander spice, faded orange and white grapefruit citrus, and more well understated leafy and weedy green hoppiness.
The bubbles are quite laid-back in their low-fidelity frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with maybe just a touch of wayward yeast marring the new paint job, as such. It finishes off-dry, the fruity and complex malty essences winning the day.
Overall, a more or less well-made version of the style, the orange and coriander duly melded into the base wheat ale. Yeast being what it is, however, I found the strain used here to be a bit too prone to wandering, with not enough of that, sorry, je ne sais quoi inherent in the best of class. Worthy of a go, at any rate.
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