PC Blanche Wheat Beer
Waterloo Brewing

Got a twelve pack of this stuff, managed to drink around 3 and a half before it turned my stomach and I had to start drinking rum instead to keep my buzz going.

Overall a decent beer, does not even come close to Hoegaarden as they imply. It smells more like a macro lager with subtle hints of that fruity wheat smell.

Taste isn't all that bad, notes of bananas and fruit, various spices but still tastes more like a heavy lager. After the first one it started tasting chemical and I began to get turned off. Decent mouthfeel, a bit too carbonated for my liking. I would not buy this again, although very good price and much better than any typical macro-lager.

I'll be honest, i wasn't expecting much with this beer. I did however get something that was quite a surprise.

This poured very nicely looks just like Hoegaarden. Smell however is different, there's some spice there, a little orange but the smell is dominated by a musty wheat malt aroma, not unlike other North American wheat beers. It does taste pretty good though, prominent wheat malt flavor with a hint of spice and a nice citrus aroma. Mounthfeel is smooth and creamy, drinkability very good.

This is no Hoegaarden by any stretch, it's not an amazing beer, nor is it trying to be. What it is however is a good, drinkable value priced beer that hits the spot better than those other cheap value lagers. I'd buy this again.

This beer is a copy of Hoegaarden. It even looks like Hoegaarden (in the glass and on the label). The marketing slogan, "Why pay through the nose for imported Belgian Wheat beer?" alludes to Hoegaarden.

The important question is, does it approximate Hoegaarden? Sadly, no.

It pours a glowing straw orange with lots of sediment and a good sized foamy head. Retention is good and a fair amount of lace remains on the glass. This really does look like Hoegaarden. Restrained citrus notes and a bit of spice make up the nose. Sourness and some diacytel esters are there too. The taste is summed up in the nose, crisp wheat notes and orange peel notes are close to Hoegaarden, but a little weak. An off sourness and some strange estery buttery flavor lies in the background. The mouthfeel is light and briskly carbonated. The finish is tart and citrusy.

This is stellar for a value beer but dissapointing for a Witbier. Hoegaarden is worth the extra bucks, but if you are on a budget, this stuff blows away any value lager.

Used a '250ml' Hoegaarden glass. (the bottle was 341ml like most bottles are, but it fit into the glass). Pours a cloudy yellowy amber with a very nice head. The head retains, but in a very thin manner.

It smells like Molson Export from what I remember of Ex. I have had beers that smelled slightly like malty-vomit, but they were from Belgium and were made the proper way. Those beers were also enjoyed down to the bitterly-sedimented bottom. It does smell like a macrobrew vomitus mass the whole way down the glass. Yummy!

The beer is bold at first, but dies off quickly and becomes a macro-aftertaste, um, jamboree (I can't think of a word) in the mouth. $16 for a 12 pack though! The carbonation is fairly close to Hoegaarden's, which is a nice bonus... this is a macro after all. Almost refreshing, except for the aftertaste of regular macro swill. It is very drinkable though. I pray it does not bring the 'hangover of the macrodemon', as I once used to enjoy every weekend in my younger days.

Overall, this beer doesn't have MUCH of what I look for in beers, but for what it is, this beer rules, at least in its own class of beer. It would kick Coors to the curb on a hot summer day with no A/C, but this beer doesn't even stand up to the beer it was modeled after: Hoegaarden. I hate comparing beers, but when a beer is 'inspired' after a Belgian beer, and the colours of the box are blue and silver, (bottles too!), one has to wonder why a comparison is not valid at all? Like the head, this beer is on the weaker side. Remember though, a macro is gaining posts on BA. How bad can this beer really be? I'm on my second now, and they seem to go down well. $16!

On Tap at the brewery and in fresh bottles.

Pour produced a lightly clouded gold colored beer with a fiat fluffy wheat beer cap..did not exactly stack out of the glass like a German weizen or Belgian witbier but it is a welcome sign this beer is all natural/malt.

Up front a tad sweet malty..then the subtle spice and light citrus peel tones show up..clean semi-dry finish.

Not a "Celis White" styled balnche but a toned down version for mass markets...not offensive and actually very drinkable but not the big rush of curacao-corriander and puckering unmalted wheat finish of a Belgian blanche...then again I don't suspect it was meant to be for the price range it sells at.