Affordable Gold
Annex Ale Project

 

 

650ml bottle - a 'sour Wit', that is if you can read their typically smudged labels.

This beer pours a hazy, yet bright pale golden yellow colour, with three flabby fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy bone-white head, which leaves some disintegrating ice floe pattern lace around the glass as it slowly but surely subsides.

It smells of gritty and grainy cereal malt, soured milk, a bit of indistinct tart fruitiness, some musty coriander spice, and very tame earthy, weedy, and floral green hops. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, some orange, white grapefruit, and lemon citrus peel, more coriander and rainbow peppercorn spiciness, subtle yeasty notes, a fading lactic sour character, and more understated leafy, musty, and floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, as the acerbity here is apparently of the benevolent ilk. It finishes off-dry, the malt and fruity esters not seeing a whole lot in the way of any lingering tart/sour off-set.

Overall - this is an aptly named offering, as the sour (kettle-borne, I'm presuming) essence meshes well with the base witbier. Quite flavourful, and duly refreshing on a day that might be the harbinger of a full-blown Spring, we dare to hope!