White Ale
Mile Wide Beer Co.

 

Floral, spicy and with just enough grain character to remind us it's a beer, the Belgian-style white ale of Mile Wide has all the perfumy, winey, bready and rusticity of the more delicate fare of the farmhouse family of ale.

White Ale pours with the classic lemony yellow color and laced with the wheaten and yeasty haze to form a cloudy glow of golden hues. Its short but fluffy white foam rolls onto the nose with sharp and savory coriander with peps of lemon, cider, wine and peppercorn. Sweet and bread upon the initial palate, the beer's early impressions are soft like sugar cookie and fresh baking sourdough.

As the sweetness gives way, the middle palate blossoms with spice. Orange pepper, peppercorn, vanilla, white pepper and a faint kiss of clove wrap around a tangy fruit center of lemon, orange, apple and white grape. Mildly bittered, the beer's peppery and grassy closure comes with suggestions of straw, lemongrass and sassafras tea.

Medium light on the palate, the beer's playful wine-like acidity dissects the pilsner and wheat sweetness while its creamy carbonation provides a gentle lift of the malt from the tongue. Malty dry and with a peppery tang, the beer trails with those lemon, and orange perfumes with a soft afterglow of returning sourdough.