Score
4.88
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Lemon nose. Hazy pale golden colour, a lot of small bubbles, good two finger frothy white head, good retention, heavy lacing. Lemon aroma, overpowering everything else, after a while some yeasty and wheaty notes. Taste light heavy to heavy sweet, wee bit of acidicity, sweet lemon, limoncello. Similar aftertaste with some spicy notes, light body, watery to oily texture, average carbonation. Not so much a witbier more like a strong radler, thirstquening but nothing else.
Bottle at home. Hazy golden with very big off white head. Coriander, lots of peach, grapefruit lemonade, orange juice, blue curaçao, weird spices, glue. Like a weird herbal lemonade. Medium sweet and light bitter. Medium bodied with fizzy carbonation.
F: very thin white, quick diminishing. C: hazy yellow to golden. A: interesting crisp like artificial lemon/orange juicy, fruity, sweet. T: like rum diluted orange juicy, very strange, not like beer, but on the other side can be refreshing in hot summer days, but it is far away from beer in my opinion.
I naturally get suspicious around flavoured specialty beers as I still have to encounter the first one that does not put me off. This one is made for the Distillerie de Biercée, which, among other things, makes ’citroenjenever’ (a kind of sweet gin flavoured with lemon - and one of the few kinds of beverage I utterly detest). Anyway, let’s have a go at this: off-white, irregular, unstable head over a cloudy ochre blonde beer. Aroma dominated by that awful ’citroenjenever’, bread, grassy hops, coriander, soap, limoncello. Taste kicks off with a ’lemon fresh’ sweetness in a liqueurish kind of way, vaguely reminiscent of limoncello again, then some drying coriander sets in built on a bland and thin pale malt sweetness with quite low carbonation, very faint hops in the finish and till deep into the throat, the ’diluted limoncello’ effect keeps dominating. The only thing which could have made this worse than it is now, is a cloying, sugary sweetness, but Silly fortunately managed to keep that to an acceptable limit; that does not take away the fact that this is again a terrible flavoured witbier.
Bottle . Pours unclear blonde, good white head . Smell is straight lemon ( is this a radler ?? ) Taste is likewise . Radler , bit soapy . Very bald taste, with a tiny bit of wheat in the back . bit unintense , compared that a regular , other industrial radler has the same amount of taste at half of this ABV ...
Hazy yellow colour. Some white foam. There are a lot of particles moving in this ’beer’. This is more radler than witbier. Very sweet sugary citrus taste. No taste of malt or hops.
Bottle 330ml.Clear light to medium yellow colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is yeasty, soap, citrus, lemon. Flavour is moderate sweet, light acidic and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, citrus, fruity, spicy, yeast. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20130104]
33cl bottle @ home shared with Joes and Dutchdrebus. Hazy opaque pale yellow color, small dense white head that diminishes quickly and leaves a fair lacing. Smells like dish water or some kind of cleaning fluid, only normal thing it resembles to is citrus. Taste is weird as well, hard to describe. Dish-water with some citrus and coriander. Low body, low carbo.
Bottle thx to benzai. Hazy yellow colour with no head. Smells like dishwashing fluid, cleaning detergent.. Soapy. Tastes like it smells. Did the housekeeping departement brew this? Fizzy carbo, thin body.