White Flag
Waredaca Brewing Company

Poured from the can into a Hoegaarden beer glass.

Deep yellow, with a real sense of orange in the mix for the body color, slightly opaque but not too cloudy. Classic white head, that has some minimal retention, but settles to a good topped thin puck and collar.

This is a real nice aroma. Good sense of dense and chewy malt, but with a real bready sweetness. There's a nice play of coriander sense, and a real dry sense to the beer which makes the spice really seem to pop out. Finally this take on thai basil is a bold move but works real nicely, as there is more of a spicy component on the nose here. However, everything seems balanced and not really overblown or out of control either.

Palate is quite nice. Mid palate flows with more of a citrus orange angle, but then there's more of a bitterness than sweetness to this wit. Chewy but light bodied, with a good herbal and spicy kick. Finishes even almost with bitter licorice and thai heat, taking a bit more of a spicy punch. The aftertaste though lingers just a hair to long, giving to pasty and sticky tannic dryness a bit too much though.

Very neat take on a wit, but definitely not in the sweet camp, and more in the bitter for sure, but in a neat way.

This witbier lives up to the standard and is among the best products from this small brewery in the Washington, DC, suburbs. Distribution is the weak spot. The wit is transparent, the smell and taste are clean and it equals better known wits in all respects.

 

 

 

Very small brewery in its second year. Belgian Wit equal to any of the big boys. Not as cloudy as some which I like. Not overly fruity as some. Very traditional in taste.