Belgian Witbier
Fort Garry Brewing Company Ltd.
- From:
- Fort Garry Brewing Company Ltd.
- Manitoba, Canada
- Style:
- Witbier
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.48 | pDev: 4.6%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 03, 2015
- Added:
- May 30, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by joesi from Canada (MB)
3.5/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Not bad. I found it to be averagely good, but I think some people might like it more and others less.
Main flavor was a spiciness phenolic taste, which was quite nice, but got a bit boring after a while (500ml can). I didn't notice much else aside from wheat, and bitterness.
There seemed to be a significant amount of bitterness, considering that I typically find Belgian Witbiers to be quite mild (although I don't know too much about how beer types are supposed to be).
It also had a bit of a crisp dryness to it at the end. Nothing huge like a dry wine or even a peach, but I still noticed something.
Carbonation and mouthfeel weren't particularly remarkable. Average/typical I suppose.
Overall I find that it's not particularly sophisticated, and that there's certainly better options out there, but you can't really go wrong with this either. I like that Fort Garry tried this style. In my opinion it wasn't really a failure, but not anything great either.
Sep 03, 2015Main flavor was a spiciness phenolic taste, which was quite nice, but got a bit boring after a while (500ml can). I didn't notice much else aside from wheat, and bitterness.
There seemed to be a significant amount of bitterness, considering that I typically find Belgian Witbiers to be quite mild (although I don't know too much about how beer types are supposed to be).
It also had a bit of a crisp dryness to it at the end. Nothing huge like a dry wine or even a peach, but I still noticed something.
Carbonation and mouthfeel weren't particularly remarkable. Average/typical I suppose.
Overall I find that it's not particularly sophisticated, and that there's certainly better options out there, but you can't really go wrong with this either. I like that Fort Garry tried this style. In my opinion it wasn't really a failure, but not anything great either.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.61/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.61/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
473ml can, more branching out for this Winnipeg brewery.
This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, densely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a bit of sudsy spattered lace around the glass as it slowly melts away.
It smells of grainy, crackery pale malt, earthy, lightly acerbic yeast, orange zest, musty coriander, and minor leafy, weedy hops. The taste is a semi-sweet, doughy breadiness, some fleshy orange, earthy coriander and white pepper spice, emerging banana square fruity notes, retreating yeast, and the same well understated hop bitters from the aroma.
The carbonation is obviously quite active, what with its frothy, uplifting joie-de-vivre, the body medium-light in weight, and mostly smooth, just a wee bit of yeast acridity muddying these particular waters. It finishes off-dry, the breadiness of the malt still steeped in a certain sugary sweetness, while the spice and fruit peter out.
Not a bad version of the style, easy enough to drink as the sun seems to be more keen on sticking around these days. However, don't be thinking that this matches the better iterations out there, in terms of complexity and overall lightness of being, because it just doesn't.
Jun 03, 2015This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, densely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a bit of sudsy spattered lace around the glass as it slowly melts away.
It smells of grainy, crackery pale malt, earthy, lightly acerbic yeast, orange zest, musty coriander, and minor leafy, weedy hops. The taste is a semi-sweet, doughy breadiness, some fleshy orange, earthy coriander and white pepper spice, emerging banana square fruity notes, retreating yeast, and the same well understated hop bitters from the aroma.
The carbonation is obviously quite active, what with its frothy, uplifting joie-de-vivre, the body medium-light in weight, and mostly smooth, just a wee bit of yeast acridity muddying these particular waters. It finishes off-dry, the breadiness of the malt still steeped in a certain sugary sweetness, while the spice and fruit peter out.
Not a bad version of the style, easy enough to drink as the sun seems to be more keen on sticking around these days. However, don't be thinking that this matches the better iterations out there, in terms of complexity and overall lightness of being, because it just doesn't.
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